Ominous Trials = Epic Rewards! ▫ Minecraft 1.21 Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.97]

The Minecraft Survival Guide Season 3 continues in Minecraft 1.21 - the Tricky Trials Update!
In today's video we get the most out of our first Trial Chamber by activating Ominous Trials - a second tier of challenge from the same Trial Spawners! Drinking an Ominous Bottle in a Trial Chamber activates the Trial Omen effect, causing all the spawners to transform and spawn mobs with higher level equipment. With the mobs defeated, the spawner has a chance to eject an Ominous Trial Key, which can be used to open Ominous Vaults!
The rewards from Ominous Vaults include a new armour trim, enchanted golden apples, a higher chance of diamonds, the Creator music disc, and the Heavy Core - the vital ingredient in crafting the new Mace weapon. So once I've opened all the vaults in our first Trial Chamber, we farm some trial keys from these spawners and visit another Trial Chamber with the hope of acquiring the rarest loot!
Along the way, I discover a great way of farming ominous bottles at a pillager outpost, recruit some fresh Cartographers to uncover extra Trial Chambers, and experiment with a stealthy approach to avoiding detection by Trial Spawners.
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[@AWildRaito]

That two week annual Minecraft phase is kicking in again and once again I'm here. Thank you for the years of great content, Pixlriffs.

[@quintenvdv2588]

Same here

[@benmarples528]

Literally 😂 The 2 week phase is so real, all you think about is Minecraft, dream Minecraft and binge watch survival guide as well

[@allister25287]

Same lmao, it's already been 2 weeks since mine started

[@thepinkbunnyempire1027]

You can really hear Pixlriffs light up when he sees the heavy core, I'm happy for him there.

[@Dozeji]

"I'm not expecting anything wonderful, because it's just a regular vault" The vault in question: *And I took that personally*

[@brickbot2.038]

3:34 "Before our Trial period expires" XD

[@furqanabid7319]

33:15 i think that's the most enthusiastic voice I've heard in all seasons of survival guide.

[@Pixlriffs]

I'm normally very stoic but getting the Heavy Core this early means I can make fun videos 😅

[@doodlefinch]

25:47 for bedrock edition players - in bedrock you actually can get multiple different trial explorer maps from one cartographer! you have to go to the trial chamber you have a map for first, but if you explore it and then return to the cartographer you can buy a new map that should be for a different trial chamber from the same villager :D

[@Catawg]

That's nice to know, thanks

[@randomperson.]

and on Java Edition?

[@arasdeeps1852]

That is probably a bug, so take advantage of it while you can.😉

[@binmegame8602]

It isn't a bu​g because the map their own id so if you already entered one the game will save that id and when you buy another map it will change that why and maybe Mojang will nerf it@@arasdeeps1852

[@Jumpman16]

@@randomperson. you need a whole 'nother villager for a new map

[@kevinzhang1414]

Infested doesn't spawn silverfish when the mob dies. instead, its a 10% chance to spawn every time the mob takes damage.

[@waveclaw]

Which is somehow much worse. Using stone as a filler block in these environments is probably not a great idea with silverfish spam.

[@ItzThunder2337YT]

i have been there watching your vids (started at survival guide 1 episode 8 or 9) for 7+ years and you still don't have a mil? COME ON GET THIS MAN MORE RESPECT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@notknown876]

True he is the one who taught me how to play Minecraft though I have been watching him for 4 years.

[@Crypted42]

FACTS

[@ETools.]

I didnt even realise this until you said it. I call blasphemy

[@trevorgreenough6141]

Diamond Pyjamas! That had me giggling for a while.

[@thor_of_asgaard2649]

I completely agree. Having Smite V on an axe is a major advantage in the Trial Chambers, especially as you are able to one shot most freshly spawned (undead) mobs before they target you :D

[@AF-zw4wv]

I'm loving the return of the Survival Guide videos. I've learned so much because everything is covered so comprehensively.

[@MsHalcyon2]

Whew, boy. Even with full netherite, pretty sure the ominous trials are gonna hand my butt to me 😅 but at least I know. Thanks, Pix!

[@thenopequeen]

Be careful of your full netherite, when I died in an ominous trial, a zombie picked up and wore my armor, and once I finally got into a place it couldn't reach me and punched it to death, my armor disappeared with it like the armor they spawn with. I know it was mine because it had mismatched armor trims, not just copper like the spawned ones

[@MsHalcyon2]

@@thenopequeen Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that, but thanks for the heads up. 😬

[@LordofPotatos]

I've been following the survival guide for most of 2019 to 2022 ngl hearing your intro again gives me peace

[@ytkoku]

Congrats on finding the heavy core already! Did not have the time yet to run a trial chamber, but your video will definitely help me when I finally will. Nice tips about the smite V axe and drinking the potion after defeating the spawners. Love the content, happy to see you're pushing out videos fast.

[@celestialgiven]

The burst of excitement when you finally got the heavy core! That was such an adorable moment

[@player_no1]

am returning to minecraft after years of not following and now it looks like a completely different game!

[@NuggetPlaysGamez]

Nothing makes me happier than a new Survival Guide episode, great job pix!

[@nicholaslanier7861]

I was able to get breach V and Density V on librarian trades in bedrock. Also, if any of the zombies/skeletons pick up your gear if you die, they will not drop it when you come back to kill them.

[@Pixlriffs]

Wind Burst is the only enchantment exclusive to trial chambers, I should've been clearer about that in the video

[@enoiladoe]

Regarding the items they pick up, if its a zombie you can turn it drowned and (at least on bedrock) they will drop everything they had as zombie (including nice trimmed armour).

[@TrustZemaitisTouch]

@@enoiladoethanks for sharing this tip!! lost my full netherite armor + sword + axe to a hoard of baby zombies...

[@enoiladoe]

@@TrustZemaitisTouch my pleasure. All I ask in return is to pay it forward

[@alex141207]

Omg! The first heavy core took me around 5 hours to find! And then I found 5 in 30 minutes! 😂 I’m just out of luck on the new enchantement. 2.2% chance is not a lot for the book! Gotta keep farming! Great episode! 👍

[@reubendaniel5691]

Somehow I got lucky and now have enough books for wind burst 3 if I wanted to use it, which apparently is insanely rare so dang

[@shucksv]

12:51 Palpatine jump scare

[@onebeartoe]

Awesome, I thought the Ominous Effect had to be on to open an Ominous Vault! Thanks PIxlriffs!

[@jonnyblaze2692]

Hey I'm not sure if this is bedrock exclusive but toycat bought six different maps from the same cartographer you just have to go explore each map before he'll give you a new one

[@ravenfalcon9316]

It did a little bit of testing on both versions, and it seems like it is a bedrock exclusive, unfortunately.

[@THE_bchat]

Toycat ended up getting a duplicate map from the same cartographer during his "five maps in five minutes" mini-challenge.

[@jonnyblaze2692]

@@THE_bchat yes but on his stream he went back to that same cartographer and got a few more unique maps after the duplicate

[@briankeith2]

Similarly the diamond armour not dropping from skeletons. On my world (Bedrock) i got a diamond helmwr with flow pattern (how i cpuld tell it was NOT mine. I also died and my armour was gone. So maybe one picked up my helmet and switched them or something? Could be a bug.

[@brokenstarfury4895]

@@briankeith2 The ominous trial mobs with armor will always have a copper trim. It's the latter if your armor is not copper trimmed.

[@nathaliebongenaar9751]

I was really looking forward to hear your reaction to finding the heavy core, that was sooo good🎉 was fun to watch

[@00jketchup]

thank u pix for making these guide tutorials

[@williamjones5334]

One minor correction: while Oozing, Weaving, and Wind Charged all spawn their associated hazards (slime, webs, and wind bursts) on the mob's/player's death, Infested instead gives the mob/player a 10% chance to spawn silverfish each time they take damage (which could be on death, but could be while they're still alive as well). Also, they finally gave cobwebs a proper sound in this update, which I'm thankful for!

[@goofyalto]

12:52 nice star wars reference 😂

[@Van-dq4sw]

Feels like the trial chamber knew you were doing a guide and wanted to make sure you get to cover the mace fairly quickly!

[@Undercover_Pineapple]

Got that streamer luck with finding the heavy core!! GG Pix!!

[@kyle8165]

Really enjoying the new outtro music

[@xZotiC454]

Haven’t been following mc for a bit. Excited to see the Mace in action

[@Spectervamp1]

Tip for you, keep your chestplate on hotbar slot 1. If stuff gets hairy you can quick swap to your chestplate, and likewise if you need a quick getaway or discover you forgot to equip your elytra before jumping off a cliff you can equip quickly and be on your way. Swapping to chestplate midair will also cancel your elytra, meaning you can pull off some cool aerial maneuvers, or save yourself from wall splatting

[@kolkagaming1234]

Last week a small Pillager Patrol came by to attack my home & the Pillager Captain dropped a Ominous Bottle, I’m saving it up for when a Raid a Trial Chamber

[@emily_nova3938]

I've done 2 different trial chambers and still haven't gotten that heavy core. Super jealous. Awesome video as always!

[@IlyasZaida-ko9vv]

I am so happy for you pix good luck mate!!!

[@pm3k692]

Important PSA for when you get to talking about Wind Burst. Bedrock edition currently has a much rarer chance of getting it, over 1 in 40 ominous vaults on average (about 8+ whole trial chambers per single level of Wind Burst). IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED to get this enchantment in 1.21.0, with vaults not being usable later on all failed attempts beyond collecting the other rarities will only harm you later on. However it does still spawn, it's just very likely you won't find it. Per structure it's much rarer than finding the Silence armor trim! Be warned, this enchantment will burn you out if you try to get it, let alone maximizing it.

[@joelpierce1453]

12:51 I caught that Star Wars reference!

[@tree1568]

The SMP I play on started with a really small world border with no village, so the emeralds from the trial chambers have been an absolute godsend enabling us to to trade with the wandering trader and get materials otherwise unobtainable. Plus the mangrove in the entrance to the chambers gave us propagules. Though despite starting a new world, after one member took the copper bulbs from the chambers we now have random mobs spawning all over the place, creepers and endermen causing lots of bother

[@joelpierce1453]

Btw y'all, I have noticed that the % chance of getting ominous keys seems to be much higher when you do them with at least 2 players. When doing them single player I found I was getting food all the time, and could go through the whole chamber with 2 dozen spawners and get 2 keys. When I went back through with a friend we got keys from at least one spawner in every room. This was consistent in multiple runs.

[@Undercover_Pineapple]

My first trial chamber gifted me a silk touch book and one of the armour trims. Very impressive! I was surprised to find a zombie spawner very by as well! I was confused when I heard mobs that weren't from the trial spawners! 😂

[@rjayde4832]

12:43 'I came looking for copper and found diamonds"

[@pucknorris3473]

I feel like they’re opening up the opportunity to introduce a boss mob… this would reset the vaults allowing players to re-access them… I don’t like the idea that you can’t that means that eventually I will have used all of them. It might take forever, but it can happen and I don’t like that so I hope they make something that resets everything

[@zomerkoninkjes]

Oh my god, I did the ominous vaults yesterday with friends and the first thing that got out for me was a heavy core. I knew it wasn’t a common items since none of my friends got it from the 5 vaults we opened, but I didn’t know it was that rare!

[@seanisnard]

I'm on about 200ish days in my world. I play on PS4. My first ominous event I got 2 heavy cores. I got the achievements also, so it was all legit :). Now wind burst will take forever especially if I want it on both of my maces. I was so excited and full of energy after that.

[@realkevthejedi]

Congrats on getting your heavy core! I'm halfway through my second trial chamber, still searching for mine! Not sure if the odds are different on Bedrock edition.

[@metronicmagician1816]

Having been going through the trial chambers hunting for a heavy core I am baffled at the luck you just got

[@mitch85714]

Fighting a breeze in an open AIR-ea hehehe. Battling it out while exchanging BLOWS :D

[@daveparrish2982]

My favorite thing about this video is the 107 utterances of the word "ominous", which is surely a YT record.

[@HalCanary]

You should just put unbreaking & mending on your shield!

[@SuperJeb98]

I found a good use for the mace, if you jump and then wind charge right below you and then hit a mob real close to you with a mace with the wind charge enchantment it will launch you into the air and then you can get multiple mobs very quickly becuase you can one shot them

[@zomerkoninkjes]

I agree the smite V axe makes a huuuge difference, it made the normal trial chambers almost easy

[@SilhouetteSkinCare-qo7yk]

You can sit next to omni vault and watch the items cycle inside and once you see heavy core slam the key in you can get it in time if fast or just guess and click key after watching vault for awhile and no heavy core cause once you hit key the things you see through it are your loot rewards

[@TylerTeacher]

I guess I got super lucky, I got the heavy core after only 2 or 3 vaults. Also, you can disable the spawners with a few blocks placed above them. They light up, but nothing spawns. It might have to do with clearing out the blocks below it too, but I’ve been stripping my first trial chamber for parts and was getting annoyed at the cave spiders coming at me every 30 min, so I’ve managed to turn them off now.

[@user-xt2gy8vc4r]

Hey pix, love the vid, when do you recommend raiding a trial chamber in a new world

[@mattdewey9846]

I got super lucky with a heavy core too. First item ever to pop out of a ominous vault.

[@SlimPizzaBoy]

For maps if you trade for one and explore the trail chamber, you can buy a new map. It will not be the same. They have an area they use, if more then 1 trial chamber in the area

[@JohnEnerva]

You’re getting close to 100 episodes!!!!!! =D 3 more Episodes =D

[@_Twitch_ZuZkia_]

Richtig cool hat Spaß gemacht

[@alisavogt2892]

So cool!!

[@danielrudy1781]

You should make a base at the chamber, like a little forward base of stuff you will need

[@cappared]

It would be fun to bring on a friend to run these to show how multiplayer works. I ran one with other players yesterday and it seems like it's possible for a spawner to not "see" one of the players and not drop a key dor them. I assume it happened because we were in a room of lots of levels and the player didnt get on the right level during the fight. But it would be interesting to know the parameters of that. Plus how it works when only one of the multiple players has the ominous effect, how do you make sure the ominous effect is what triggers the spawner (if you haven't runit normally prior to triggering the effect) Thanks for the vid! I love this series so much

[@cappared]

Dropping armor is interesting. Nothing with armor trip dropped for us, and no weapons, which I expected, but we did end up with some gold boots dropping. I wonder what was going on there

[@teamrocket9378]

correction they can drop the gear 😅 i have a copper trimed chest plate droped by a skeleton. also if you turn the zombies into drowned they drop the gear. set up a zombie one before activation with a ominous bottle with a hopper under where you drown them l. 😊

[@thiagoaquino9609]

Hey, congrats on the Heavy Core! I assume, since you just got the Mace, that next video will be on how to smash stuff around with it... When you make the new potions video (I suppose there will be one in the future), could you talk about upgrading existing mob farms for slime farming with oozing potions?

[@TheRealWormbo]

Turns out, he's going to not do that right away, if his streams are an indicator. Pix did mention though that he would like to one-shot every mob throughout the series eventually.

[@kamikazenights58]

This is the update I finally committed to a world I found after the first 30 minutes, settling in a small pocket of swamp with the new Bogged, interspersed with dark oak and old growth birch forests, surrounded by beserk windswept savannah cliffs sprouting from the surrounding oceans. The acacia trees are covered in snow and share space with spruce trees too. I've never seen anything quite like it in Minecraft before and I am T H R I L L E D

[@TheSharbs]

Wake up babe, a new episode of minecraft survival guide just dropped.

[@ouldjiwalid6121]

@pixlriffs im looting this structure for a week now i notice and i discovered that : When you want to open a vault you can see inside the vault a loot loop ➰ and when you open the vault you will get everything that showed up inside of it , so me and my friend we where hunting the good loot as soon as you can see a good one open the vault, if you are fast enough you can get what ever you want

[@oneamongstthecrowd]

So close to 1 mil!

[@tLeeYT52]

I went into the trial chambers without knowing everything so that i had more fun, and i got the heavy core and everything rare except for the green new disc! I was like huh? why me? 😂💕

[@ahmed55576]

with looting 3, I had a mob drop me an enchanted diamond helmet that has the new trim on it, also the enchantment was Prot 4 lol

[@notknown876]

Great episode. You were really lucky there to get that in 11 keys I have opened 30 keys and didn't get it yet.

[@Pixlriffs]

It's something like a 7.5% drop chance, so the odds aren't quite as steep as I thought, the average is about 1/13. 30 is rough, but hopefully you'll find one soon! Once you've got keys, I really recommend the stealth approach to later trial chambers. You can speedrun through them if you don't have to fight a bunch of mobs.

[@TheRealWormbo]

It's a bit like obtaining your first wither skeleton skull. You can get lucky, but if you're Skizzleman, you will have to kill a hundred or so wither skeletons first.

[@notknown876]

@@Pixlriffs that simply means I am very unlucky 🥲.

[@notknown876]

@@TheRealWormbo yeah you won't get the stuff when you want it but when you don't want it you will get it more often like I was speedrunning one time (not recent probably 4 months ago) I killed three wither skeleton and got 2 skulls without looting enchant(I was using axe). 🥲

[@Crypted42]

6:28 an exception would be in the powdered snow room if the skeleton turns into a stray

[@LastStander212]

Today, I opened 5 ominous vaults and got 2 heavy cores from them. I can’t believe it!

[@Digitalsurfer265]

If you feel like “cheating”. Chunk Base Seed map has updated to 1.21 and can now show you where trial chambers are in your world

[@brokenstarfury4895]

Make sure to scour more chambers for the Wind Burst enchant (level 3 max)!

[@ion0057]

now you have the mace, i found that all three of the mace enchants can be obtained from librarians.

[@Moleculor]

You had approximately a 57.6% chance of finding a Heavy Core after 11 Ominous Vaults. 1-(1-0.075)¹¹, or 100% minus the chance of NOT finding it in 11 vaults.

[@carpetman850]

Got my heavy core first try

[@mercury6901]

End cities have much better loot than trial chambers. The only special items are the heavy core and the 2 new armor trims. These 2 new trims are not that pretty, in my opinion. Players need at least a full set of well enchanted diamond armor to do well. The fact that players need shulker boxes to carry the loot (unless they use inventory mods) makes trial chamber a late game thing.

[@serealll]

I’ve been getting horrible loot on the ominous vaults and I haven’t had the best luck with the keys either. I have a lot of cooked beef and baked potatoes but not as many ominous keys even with bad omen V.

[@SeraanGaming]

Pixl, why are you not using shield with unbreaking and mending enchantments? Love the video

[@Pixlriffs]

I had one with unbreaking and mending but it got destroyed when I made the slime farm, and since then I just haven't made the effort to replace it. It also makes videos like this more exciting if there's a bit of jeopardy, although that definitely wasn't on purpose

[@Matt-mz5jr]

In on bedrock and one time I killed a skeleton with armor on and it dropped an iron armor piece with the armor trim on it as well.

[@Joesbadatlife]

Those ominous zombies are no joke. My prot 2 diamond gear did not hold up

[@AvenRox]

I got some weird luck on my first trial chamber - I had a normal mob spawner attached to mine, the chamber was fairly small, and I got a heavy core on my second ominous key

[@austinx8320]

Love the new update tent, but when is the nether hub gonna happen?

[@Alxium]

Finally, Minecraft added lootcrates.

[@tonyzamora5529]

Windburst books are even more rare than the heavy core from vaults

[@aaronmerritt44]

12:41 confirmed he's x-raying

[@anthonyfrench2284]

Hey I play bedrock and it seems like I get the weapons from the mobs and thanks for the videos

[@Mega_Monkey]

when you open a vault it seems to give you the item that is currently rotating visually through it? also did mojang just casually add loot crates in the form of vaults without the whole internet going bazerk

[@sethweston3319]

out of curiosity, is there a reason you don't enchant your shield? I know it's cheap but I like not having to keep making more, especially because I personally like decorating my shields (I've only started watching this recently so forgive me if you've already gone over this in a previous episode) also I think the game's trying to tell you to trim your armor with all the Flow trims you got :p

[@Nobody-jo3tv]

30'000 subs left

[@joshdews1987]

I did both trials and after that took all the cooper 😂

[@danielrhouck]

11:38 So when you do a banner shield and that no longer works you might need the unbreaking and mending enchantments. 25:48 Did you double-check that? Apparently on bedrock all the other cartographer maps still work that way like on Java, but they will not sell you a map to a trial chamber you have been to. The wiki does not mention this at all, either as a Bedrock exclusive or not.

[@arasdeeps1852]

Too your second comment; that means it's a bug. Better take advantage of it while you can.

[@danielrhouck]

@@arasdeeps1852 I donʼt think so; based on what was in ibxtoycatʼs video it pretty much has to be intentional. The changelog doesnʼt say either way AFAICT but it didnʼt look like the sort of thing that could happen by accident.

[@StephyJean]

So awesome! Is the Mace enchantable?

[@Pixlriffs]

Yes! We’ll look at the Mace next week

[@StephyJean]

@@Pixlriffs oh awesome! Thank you so much! Your videos on the trial chamber is helping me build some confidence to take it on

[@ezriunlucky1886]

I just realized he still hasn't finished the center floor of the storage building.

[@SaignusUnltd]

Longest I've ever seen the subtitles lol. They were covering a third of the screen

[@SilhouetteSkinCare-qo7yk]

I got 2 heavy cores in a row that way

[@amylichtenberger2965]

My first chamber I got a diamond block out of a pot!

[@apollo4950]

33:50 it's not much lower than 1/11, it's about a 1/13 chance (7.5% chance to be exact)

[@paulelderson934]

Is that chance per vault? It rolls multiple items of course.

[@apollo4950]

@@paulelderson934 Per vault, yes. The game has a 75% chance per vault of doing one roll from a special set of items, which has a 10% chance of being a Heavy Core.

[@paulelderson934]

@@apollo4950 thanks! I assume that it rolls all the loot from the table at once and then however many items had a positive check are the loot that's received? It seems like in that case, you could roll 0 items though.

[@andreszejner7434]

The wiki says a 7.5% drop rate for the heavy core, is not that bad, is it? The pot music disc has a 1.4% (although theres lots of pots around, so thats more likely to drop). The Ominous music disc has also a 7.5% drop rate.

[@user-im6ez3pe4l]

I've heard from another video that when you go near a trial spawner with trial omen, the cooldown for the spawner instantly resets.