What Are Ominous Trials in Minecraft and How Do They Work

Mar. 29, 2024

Trial chambers are all about fighting and combat challenges in theMinecraft 1.21 update. However, if you’re good at the game, conquering these new structures won’t be all that difficult. Thankfully, if you’re looking for a greater challenge, you can do the ominous trials. They essentiallyincrease the difficultyof the trial spawners, which makes the trial chambers more rewarding. In this guide, we discuss everything you need to know about ominous trials in Minecraft.

Minecraft 1.21 – What Are Ominous Trials?

Ominous trials is the name for harder trial spawner battles insidetrial chambers. Approaching a regular trial spawner with the Bad Omen effect applied will cause it to turn blue and also spawn mobs that are more difficult to defeat, as they will often have armor. The mobs that don’t wear armor, like spiders, will spawn in greater quantities.

Moreover, the ominous trial spawner will randomly summon projectiles and potions above the mobs and players. They may deal damage to you or apply a potion effect that could be helpful or harmful.

To start the ominous trials event, you’ll first need to get the Bad Omen effect. Then, activate a trial spawner to kickstart the ominous trial event. Check out the steps below to understand the process in detail.

The Bad Omen effect isonly a transitional effect. You may enter a village and it will turn into Raid Omen, shortly after which the raid will begin. But, if you enter a trial chamber structure and get close to a regular trial spawner, Bad Omen will turn into Trial Omen and the trial spawner will become anominous trial spawner.

This is only the case if the spawner is not in cooldown or if it is in cooldown but its last phase wasn’t the ominous one. So, that means if you defeat the mobs from a regular trial spawner, you can trigger the harder trial right away with the Bad Omen effect.

The Bad Omen’s level determines how long the Onimous Trial will last. So, Bad Omen 1 will turn into Trial Omen that lasts for 15 minutes, but Bad Omen 5 will see the Trial Omen that lasts for 1 hour and 15 minutes. So, each level of the Bad Omen effect adds15 minutesto the Trial Omen’s timer.

Theominous trial spawner glows blueinstead of orange and emits soul flame particles. It will spawn mobs with enchanted equipment regularly. However, mobs who cannot have equipment will spawn in greater numbers. Moreover, ominous trial spawners spawn projectiles and potion clouds above the player to make the battle extra difficult. The special mob effects this spawner can inflict include:

You can even make theseMinecraft potionsyourself, so visit our linked guide to find out how.

If the trial spawner already spawned some mobs before it turned into its ominous version, all the previous mobs will despawn, and you’ll get a new challenge. Defeating all mobs spawned by the ominous trial spawner will cause it to spit out items and then go into cooldown.

Once the cooldown for an ominous trial spawner has ended, it will turn back into a regular trial spawner. So, you’ll need the Bad Omen effect to make it into an ominous spawner again.

Once you defeat all the mobs spawned during ominous trials, you’ll get rewards from the ominous trial spawner, which are different than the regular trial spawners.

They will mostly yield high-quality food, such as steak and golden carrots (one of thebest foods in Minecraft). However, there is a 30% chance it will eject a singleominous trial key.

The ominous trial key is used to unlockominous vaults, a special variant of the vault that generates in trial chambers, usually higher up in rooms. It glows blue and is scarier in design than thestandard vault. This block can yield fairly valuable loot, like:

So, that’s all you need to know about ominous trials in the Minecraft 1.21 update. They provide an optional difficulty within the game world itself and give you plenty of reasons to try them out. With that said, if you defeated the ominous trials, don’t forget to share your experience in the comments below.

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