What are ominous events in Minecraft?

Minecraft is continuously receiving new content in anticipation of the upcoming 1.21 update, with the most recent addition being ominous events. These events have been specifically created to increase the level of difficulty for players. Despite the challenges they bring, they also offer valuable rewards.

Ominous events are an extension of the negative signs that players should be familiar with. Currently, there are two categories of ominous events: village raids and ominous trials. While village raids may be well-known to players, the introduction of ominous trials is a recent development.

Recent ominous events in Minecraft

Ominous trial key (Image via Mojang Studios)

Ominous events encompass a variety of challenging situations that put the player’s combat skills to the test. The recent addition of Illager raids is just one example of these events. Furthermore, the 24w13a patch notes for Minecraft provide an in-depth explanation of the numerous additions made to these events.

The game now includes ominous bottles, ominous trials, as well as ominous trial spawners, keys, and vaults.

Beginning with a foreboding vial, these objects are available in five varying tiers, each corresponding to a level of ill-fortune. Ingesting the vial of bad omen will trigger a negative omen that will persist for an hour and 40 minutes. These vials can be discovered in vaults or obtained by defeating Raid Captains outside of a raid.

The introduction of Ominous trials adds a new level of excitement to Minecraft, as it enhances the difficulty of already demanding trial chambers. This gameplay can be triggered by discovering a trial chamber with a negative omen, causing players to face even tougher trial spawners.

Ominous trial spawners (Image via Mojang Studios)

When encountering the trial spawner in Minecraft, players can easily distinguish the ominous trial spawners from the regular ones by their unique blue glow, caused by the presence of soul flames instead of the usual orange flames.

These experimental spawners will not only spawn tougher mobs, but also hurl potions and projectiles at unsuspecting players, increasing the difficulty even further. The projectiles from these spawners will consistently contain a single type of lingering potion. Please keep in mind that these features are still in development and may be subject to change in the final version.

Finally, we must discuss the mysterious trial vault and key. As players are aware, the main objective of entering the trial chambers is to defeat the challenging breeze, utilize the trial key to open the vault, and obtain valuable rewards. However, the mysterious trial vault elevates the rewards to a higher level.

The trial vaults, with their foreboding presence, house a higher number of precious items in comparison to regular vaults. This increases the likelihood of obtaining the highly sought-after heavy core block from these vaults rather than from standard ones.