Summary
- The new Tricky Trials update for Minecraft offers new challenges and loot.
- Players can enjoy randomly generated trial chambers with unique labyrinths, foes, and traps for a fresh experience every time.
- PS5 players can now enjoy a trial version of Minecraft with a full release for the console coming later this year.
Minecraft has released its latest update, Tricky Trials, on all platforms. With the new update, Minecraft players can experience plenty of new challenges in the title's replayable trial chambers, which reward participants with valuable loot for defeating tough mobs. Tricky Trials officially went live on June 13 for the game's Minecraft: Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.
The last major Minecraft update was Trails & Tales, released one year prior to Tricky Trials. Players can now encounter camels and sniffers, trim down armor, and encounter trail ruins. Cherry groves were also introduced, along with the ability to craft with bamboo, create mob sounds, and hang signs. Trail ruins serve as archeological sites that resemble ancient villages weathered by the elements and an archeology update is exactly what the Minecraft community wants. Now, Tricky Trials hopes to expand upon the foundations of Trails & Tales to further expand Minecraft's complex and immersive world.
Best Tameable Mobs In Minecraft
Out of all the tools at the player’s disposal in Minecraft the most interesting and often most useful are the various tameable mobs.
Tricky Trials adds several new features to Minecraft, including decorative copper blocks, new mobs, new banner patterns, and even redstone-powered auto-crafting, as if Minecraft's redstone wasn't useful enough already. Suitable for both solo and multiplayer modes, trial chambers were also released as part of the 1.20 update, which can be located using an explorer map purchasable from a Cartographer Villager. These areas present a slew of challenges, plenty of mobs to battle, and generous rewards for those reigning victorious. If players wander far enough, they'll encounter trial spawners and get the chance to meet the breeze and the bogged, two new mobs that inhabit the trial chambers. For players who like a little more risk, find an ominous bottle and drink from it to inflict the Bad Omen effect, then run head-first into the nearest village or trial chamber to trigger an ominous raid/trial.
In addition, Mojang has begun a trial period for Minecraft on PlayStation 5 in the hopes of releasing a full version later this year. As of the latest update, the PS5 version of Minecraft is still in an experimental phase to allow the team to continue making improvements and reflecting on community feedback. Minecraft has also been optimized for Xbox Series X/S consoles, allowing it to currently run at 4K and 60FPS. Mojang seeks to offer a polished experience on consoles while opening doors for future game enhancements and to continue keeping Minecraft relevant over a decade after its initial release.
If there's nothing left to do in Minecraft after crafting, decorating, and antagonizing villages, head for the next trial chamber. Each structure is randomly generated and contains a different labyrinth, different foes, and different traps to ensure a unique experience every time.
Every New Feature Added With Tricky Trials
- Redstone-enabled auto-crafting with the crafter.
- Two new mobs: the bogged, a new skeleton variant that shoots poison arrows, and the breeze, a nimble and mischievous foe that drops the wind charge and breeze rod when defeated.
- A new weapon: the mace, which has three new unique enchantments in breach, density and wind burst, and a special smash attack that knocks back enemies.
- Five new decorative copper blocks: chiseled copper, copper grate, copper door, copper trapdoor and copper bulb.
- Thirteen new decorative tuff variant blocks: tuff stairs, tuff slab, tuff wall, chiseled tuff, polished tuff, polished tuff stairs, polished tuff slab, polished tuff wall.
- Four new status effects and potions (which can also be applied to tipped arrows): infestation, oozing, weaving and wind charging.
- Two new banner patterns (flow and guster), three new pottery sherds (flow, guster and scrape) and two new armor trims (bolt and flow).
- Twenty new paintings: including five from in-house artist Sarah Boeving and fifteen from Kristoffer Zetterstrand, the artist behind the original set of Minecraft paintings.
- Three new music discs and nine new ambient tracks, which are also available to play on your preferred music streaming platform.
- And of course, the full trial chamber feature set inclusive of the vault, trial spawners, ominous trials – a more challenging version of the trial chambers, trial key, the heavy core, ominous bottles and the trial explorer map.
Minecraft
- Released
- November 18, 2011
WHERE TO PLAY
Minecraft is a game made up of blocks, creatures, and community. You can survive the night or build a work of art – the choice is all yours. But if the thought of exploring a vast new world all on your own feels overwhelming, then fear not!
Minecraft has no set goal and can be played however you’d like! This is why it’s sometimes called a “sandbox game” – there are lots of things for you to do, and lots of ways that you can play. If you like being creative, then you can use the blocks to build things from your imagination. If you’re feeling brave, you can explore the world and face daring challenges. Blocks can be broken, crafted, placed to reshape the landscape, or used to build fantastical creations.
Creatures can be battled or befriended, depending on how you play. The world of Minecraft allows for epic adventures, quiet meditations, and everything in between. You can even share your creations with other players, or play in community worlds!
- ESRB
- E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence
- Developer(s)
- Mojang
- Publisher(s)
- Mojang
- Number of Players
- 1-4
- Split Screen Orientation
- Vertical or Horizontal
- Platform(s)
- 3DS, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360
- Genre(s)
- Sandbox, Survival
- How Long To Beat
- 129 Hours
- File Size Xbox Series
- 1.42 GB (August 2024)
- Metascore
- 93
