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One of the latest major changes revealed for upcoming 1.21 update is ominous trial in Minecraft, a huge revamp of bad omen and all its associated systems. Along with a fancy new icon, the effect is no longer automatically applied when defeating raid captains. Now, raid captains and trial chamber vaults can drop ominous bottles, which are consumables that apply a level of the bad omen effect equal to the level of the bottle.
This effect and a new variant of it are the keys to unlocking and experiencing an optional, more difficult variant of the trial chamber. Here are the steps to start an ominous trial in Minecraft.
Starting an ominous trial in Minecraft
1) Find a trial chamber
The first step to starting an ominous trial in Minecraft is finding a trial chamber. It may seem backward to find this first, but as bad omen is on a timer—a long timer, but a timer nonetheless—you should find the trial chamber first. Thankfully, there is now a Minecraft villager trade for a trial chamber explorer map straight to one available via the cartographer, making this step easy.
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That does not mean it won't be time-consuming, however, as finding a village or a zombie villager to cure and trade with are both RNG-dependent unless you are using one of the best Minecraft seeds, which tend to have villages near spawn.
2) Get the bad omen effect
As mentioned previously, one of the biggest additions to version 1.21 is a total overhaul of how bad omen works. Since the effect is only applied via player-controlled consumables, there are no more accidental raids to ruin trading halls or kill you by accidentally triggering ominous trial in Minecraft.
Ominous bottles can also be found within trial chambers as an uncommon Minecraft vault block reward. This means that if you get lucky, the first vault you loot can drop an ominous bottle and allow the rest of the trial to be ominous. This will cause the mobs spawned to be deadlier, but it will also significantly increase the quality of loot, both from spawners and vaults.
3) Enter a trial chamber
Confirm the status effect is applied using the status icon. Assuming you got the effect as normal, simply entering a trial chamber and approaching a trial spawner with bad omen will cause it to convert to a trial omen and start ominous trial in Minecraft. This is a new variant of bad omen, which is actually what causes ominous trials to start.
It causes all trial spawners that detect you to convert to ominous trial spawners. As mentioned previously, mobs spawned from these variants are deadlier, often spawning with equipment. Additionally, they are blue rather than orange, as they burn with soul fire. They also spit out projectiles randomly, including lingering potions of 1.21's new potion types.
Be cautious, as even trial spawners on their 30-minute cooldown will reactivate and spawn new mobs immediately upon converting into their ominous variant.
4) Claim some ominous loot
All ominous spawners have better loot than the regular variants, which justifies the added difficulty during ominous trial in Minecraft. The best of this new loot is ominous keys, which, as the name suggests, are used to open the new ominous variant of vault block found within these trial chamber variants.
Similar to trial spawners, ominous vaults contain significantly better loot than regular vaults and are identifiable through the soul fire burning within them. The best of this loot includes enchanted golden apples, ominous bottles level III to V, flow banner patterns and trims, wind burst, density, breach mace enchantments, and heavy cores.
The last of these items is needed to craft Minecraft's new mace weapon, making ominous trials necessary to tackle before using this amazing new weapon and experimenting with its exclusive enchantments.
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