Tricky Trials is a major update that features new copper and tuff blocks, maces, trial chambers, ominous events, and more. It is released on June 13, 2024. It is the last major update as Mojang switched to game drops on September 2024.

Additions

Gameplay

• Ominous Event
  • A new in-game event that can be triggered with Bad Omen.
    • When in trial chambers, all trial spawners will become ominous.
    • When on a village, it triggers a raid if raid omen doesn't remove in time.

Blocks

• Crafter
  • A new redstone block that crafts an item when powered on.
  • Can be crafted with 5 iron ingots, 2 redstone dusts, a crafting table, and a dropper.
• Vault
  • Can only be obtained in creative inventory.
  • Generates in trial chambers.
  • Requires a trial key to open it.
• Ominous Vault
  • Can only be obtained by using this command:
    • Java Edition: /give @s minecraft:vault[block_state={ominous:"true"},block_entity_data={id:"minecraft:vault",config:{key_item:{count:1,id:"minecraft:ominous_trial_key"},loot_table:"minecraft:chests/trial_chambers/reward_ominous"}}] and /setblock x y z minecraft:vault[ominous=true]{config:{key_item:{count:1,id:"minecraft:ominous_trial_key"},loot_table:"minecraft:chests/trial_chambers/reward_ominous"}}
    • Bedrock Edition: /setblock x y z vault ["ominous"=true]
  • Generates in trial chambers.
  • Requires an ominous trial key to open it.
• Trial Spawner
  • A new mob spawner block that generates in trial chambers.
  • Spawns a limited number of mobs.
  • Ejects a reward when a player successfully defeats all mobs.
  • Has a 30-minute cooldown before resetting to a different one.
• Ominous Trial Spawner
  • Activates when a Bad Omen-inflicted player gets too close to the normal trial spawner.
  • Shoots projectiles and arrows in addition to mobs spawning.
• Heavy Core
  • Can be obtained by unlocking an ominous vault at 7.5% chance.
  • Can be used to craft maces.

Items

• Mace
  • A new melee weapon that deals greater damage to targeting mobs per block fallen when performing a smash attack.
  • Can be crafted with a heavy core and a breeze rod.
• Trial Key
  • Can be obtained from trial spawners.
  • Can be used to open vaults.
• Ominous Trial Key
  • Can be obtained from ominous trial spawners.
  • Can be used to open ominous vaults.
• Breeze Rod
  • Can be obtained by killing breezes.
  • Can be used to craft maces, wind charges, and flow armor trims.
    • Can also be used to brew potion of wind charging.
• Wind Charge
  • A new projectile that knocks mobs and players back when hit.
  • Can be crafted with a breeze rod.
    • Can produce 4 of them.
  • Utilitized by breezes.
• Ominous Bottle
  • Can be obtained from unlocking vaults and by killing raid captains.
  • Has 5 levels.
  • Gives a player Bad Omen effect that lasts for 60 minutes when used.
• Trial Explorer Map
  • Are sold by cartographer villagers.
  • Can be used to find and locate trial chambers.
• Breeze Spawn Egg
  • Can be used to spawn breezes.
• Bogged Spawn Egg
  • Can be used to spawn boggeds.

Mobs

• Bogged
  • A new undead skeleton variant that spawns in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes.
  • It wields bow and shoot players with an arrow, inflicting poison when hit.
  • Like any undead mobs:
    • Are damaged by Instant Health and healed by Instant Damage.
    • Are not affected by Regeneration and Poison.
    • Take extra damage from Smite enchantment.
    • Are not targeted by the wither.
    • Burns in sunlight.
    • Causes an armadillo to hide in its shell.
• Breeze
  • A new hostile mob that spawns in trial chambers.
  • Shoots wind charges.
  • Drops breeze rods when killed by player or tamed wolf.

Effects

• Trial Omen
  • A new status effect in which all trial spawners will become ominous when an inflicted player sees it.
• Raid Omen
  • A new status effect in which it triggers a raid in a village if an inflicted player fails to remove it for 30 seconds.
• Wind Charged
  • A new status effect that releases a burst of wind when an inflicted player or mob dies.
• Infested
  • A new status effect that has a 10% chance of spawning a silverfish when an inflicted player or mob gets hit.
• Oozing
  • A new status effect that spawns two slimes when an inflicted player or mob dies.
• Weaving
  • A new status effect that leaves 2-3 cobwebs when an inflicted player or mob dies.

Enchantments

• Breach
  • A new mace-exclusive enchantment that lessens the armor's effectiveness.
  • Has 4 levels.
• Density
  • A new mace-exclusive enchantment that increases damage dealt per block fallen.
  • Has 5 levels.
• Wind Burst
  • A new mace-exclusive enchantment that creates a wind charge effect when executing a smash attack.
  • Has 3 levels.

Advancements

• Wax On
  • Now applies to copper grates, chiseled copper, copper doors and copper trapdoors.
• Wax Off
  • Now applies to copper grates, chiseled copper, copper doors and copper trapdoors.
• Minecraft: Trial(s) Edition
  • Requires entering a Trial Chamber.
• Lighten Up
  • Requires deoxidizing the copper bulb.
  • Requires the Wax Off achievement.
• Who Needs Rockets?
  • Requires launching yourself 8 blocks up with a single wind charge.
• Blowback
  • Requires killing a breeze via deflecting its wind charge.
• Crafters Crafting Crafters
  • Requires crafting a crafter in a crafter.
• Under Lock and Key
  • Requires unlocking a Vault with a Trial Key.
• Revaulting
  • Requires unlocking an Ominous Vault with an Ominous Trial Key.
• Over-Overkill
  • Requires smashing an entity one shot with a mace.

Structures

• Trial Chambers
  • A new giant underground structure that provide players a mid-game combat challenges.
  • Made up of tuff and copper blocks.
  • It is where breezes spawn via trial spawners.
  • Has vaults and ominous vaults.
  • Has several chambers connected altogether through corridors.

Music

Changes

Blocks

• Copper Block Set
  • Added new copper variants:
    • Copper Bulb
      • Exposed Copper Bulb
      • Weathered Copper Bulb
      • Oxidized Copper Bulb
    • Waxed Copper Bulb
      • Waxed Exposed Copper Bulb
      • Waxed Weathered Copper Bulb
      • Waxed Oxidized Copper Bulb
    • Chiseled Copper
      • Exposed Chiseled Copper
      • Weathered Chiseled Copper
      • Oxidized Chiseled Copper
    • Waxed Chiseled Copper
      • Waxed Exposed Chiseled Copper
      • Waxed Weathered Chiseled Copper
      • Waxed Oxidized Chiseled Copper
    • Copper Door
      • Exposed Copper Door
      • Weathered Copper Door
      • Oxidized Copper Door
    • Waxed Copper Door
      • Waxed Exposed Copper Door
      • Waxed Weathered Copper Door
      • Waxed Oxidized Copper Door
    • Copper Grate
      • Exposed Copper Grate
      • Weathered Copper Grate
      • Oxidized Copper Grate
    • Waxed Copper Grate
      • Waxed Exposed Copper Grate
      • Waxed Weathered Copper Grate
      • Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate
    • Copper Trapdoor
      • Exposed Copper Trapdoor
      • Weathered Copper Trapdoor
      • Oxidized Copper Trapdoor
    • Waxed Copper Trapdoor
      • Waxed Exposed Copper Trapdoor
      • Waxed Weathered Copper Trapdoor
      • Waxed Oxidized Copper Trapdoor
• Tuff Block Set
  • Added new tuff variants:
    • Tuff Stairs
    • Tuff Slab
    • Tuff Wall
    • Polished Tuff
      • Polished Tuff Stairs
      • Polished Tuff Slab
      • Polished Tuff Wall
    • Tuff Bricks
      • Tuff Brick Stairs
      • Tuff Brick Slab
      • Tuff Brick Wall
      • Chiseled Tuff Bricks

Items

• Pottery Sherds
  • Added 3 new sherds:
    • Guster
    • Flow
    • Scrape
• Smithing Template
  • Added 2 new armor trims:
    • Bolt
    • Flow
• Music Discs
  • Added 3 new music discs:
    • Creator - Lena Raine
      • Creator (Music Box) - Lena Raine
    • Precipice - Aaron Cherof
• Paintings
  • Added 20 new paintings of different sizes.
    • Meditative - 1x1
    • Prairie Ride - 2x2
    • Baroque - 2x2
    • Humble - 2x2
    • Unpacked - 4x4
    • Bouquet - 3x3
    • Cavebird - 3x3
    • Cotán - 3x3
    • Endboss - 3x3
    • Fern - 3x3
    • Owlemons - 3x3
    • Sunflower - 3x3
    • Tides - 3x3
    • Backyard - 3x4
    • Pond - 3x4
    • Changing - 4x2
    • Finding - 4x2
    • Lowmist - 4x2
    • Passage - 4x2
    • Orb - 4x4

Effects

• Bad Omen
  • Changed the texture.
  • No longer triggers a raid in the village.
    • Instead, it is replaced by Raid Omen that lasts for 30 seconds.
  • No longer granted to a player when a raid captain is killed by it.

Named updates
Java Edition	Seecret Updates (2010) Halloween Update (2010) Adventure Update (2011) Pretty Scary Update (2012) Redstone Update (2013) Horse Update (2013) The Update that Changed the World (2013) Bountiful Update (2014) Combat Update (2016) Frostburn Update (2016) Exploration Update (2016) World of Color Update (2017)
Bedrock Edition	Overworld Update (2016) Friendly Update (2016) Boss Update (2016) Ender Update (2016) Discovery Update (2017) Better Together Update (2017)
Multi-edition	Update Aquatic (2018) Texture Update (2019) Village & Pillage (2019) Buzzy Bees (2019) Nether Update (2020) Caves & Cliffs (2021) The Wild Update (2022) Trails & Tales (2023) Bats and Pots (2023) Armored Paws (2024) Tricky Trials (2024) Bundles of Bravery (2024) The Garden Awakens (2024) Spring to Life (2025) Chase the Skies (2025) The Copper Age (2025) Mounts of Mayhem (2025) Tiny Takeover (2026) Chaos Cubed (2026)
Minecraft Education	Chemistry Update (2018) Code Builder Update (2018) Spring Release (2019) Back to School Update (2019) Library Update (2019) Chromebook Release (2020) Learn to Code Update (2020) Camps & Clubs (2021) GOAT Update (2021) Mobile, Multiplayer & More (2022)