Minecraft Trial Chambers Guide: All You Need to Know

Oct. 16, 2023

Minecraft 1.21 Tricky Trials is an update focused on combat and tinkering. The main feature of this update is trial chambers, an underground structure with plenty of challenges, secret mechanics and of course amazing loot. In this guide, we’ve discussed everything about trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21, including its location, mobs found in this structure, loot, and much more.

What Are Trial Chambers in Minecraft

The trial chambers inMinecraft 1.21are underground structures that vary in size and challenges. They focus on providing players with unique and exciting combat battles. Moreover, the visual style of this structure is extremely unique and cannot be matched to any other structure in the game.

The trial chamber consists of procedurally generated rooms connected to the tunnels, staircases, and the central corridor. Though, those passageways may sometimes lead off to dead ends, similar tostrongholds.

The corridor is a wide tunnel in the center of the structure, and it willlead tovarious rooms on multiple Y levels. The thick pillars all around this pathway will easily indicate this location. The chamber is filled with traps, trial spawners,decorated pots, vaults, ominous vaults, and treasure chests.

Trial chambers are relatively common andgenerated in the deepslate layersof the Overworld dimension. Unlikeancient cities, they don’t generate deep underground and some of the structure’s parts may even be found in the stone layers.

You canfind trial chambersin four simple ways, which you can learn about in our dedicated guide. If you need some support, we have compiled a list ofMinecraft seeds that make it easier to explore trial chambers.

The trial chamber is a structure geared towardscombat experience and challenges. So, mobs are one of its most important aspects. But the hostile mobs do not spawn like usual but from trial spawners.

Trial spawneris a special spawner type that adapts to the number of players that join the battle. So, more players means more mobs. Furthermore, this spawner will spawn mobs from 4 categories, namely melee, small melee, ranged, and the Breeze category.

Each of these categories is guaranteed to spawn in the structure. Also, every trial chamber will only spawn one mob per category throughout the entire building. Luckily, the trial spawner itself gives you a hint about what mobs it spawns based on the blocks surrounding it.

Through one of the trial spawners, you will only encounter the trail chambers-specificBreeze mob. This is a hostile mob that you’ll encounter in every chamber. So, make sure to learn more about it first with our dedicated guide before you venture into a trial chamber.

Trial spawner is meant to offer you and your friends with an amazing and fun combat challenge so it’s not as efficient as the regularmob spawner. There is a lot more to say abouttrial spawnersthan we included here.

Trial chambers in Minecraft are made up of variouscopperand tuff blocks. You will only find them here, so the style and vibe is consistent throughout the structure. These building blocks includetuff bricks, chiseled tuff bricks, chiseled tuff,polished tuff,copper doorsand trapdoors, chiseled copper,copper grates, copper bulb, regular and cut copper, as well as their variants.

Most of these blocks are simply aesthetic building blocks, apart from thecopper bulbsthat arelight source blocksand alsocopper trapdoors, that also serve as traps. So, if you want to build with these blocks, completely destroying a trial chamber will provide tons of materials.

You can find loot in plenty of different locations throughout trial chambers. There are supply chests, reward chests, barrels, dispensers, and even filled decorated pots. Here are the loot options you can find in each of the chest types:

Beside these loot containers, there are also trial spawners that drop its loot as well asvaultsandominous vaults. We have full dedicated guides on them where you can see what loot they can give you.

That’s pretty much it, folks. Now you know everything about trial chambers added in Minecraft. So, don’t waste time and go explore one right away!

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