Trial Spawner - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Trial Spawner in Minecraft?

A trial spawner is a special, challenging variant of a monster spawner found in trial chambers. It looks like a regular spawner cage but is made of copper and has a unique, swirling pattern inside. Its main purpose is to create a fun and rewarding combat challenge. Unlike a regular spawner, a trial spawner will spawn a set number of mobs based on how many players are nearby. Once all the mobs are defeated, the spawner will go into a cooldown period and then spit out some valuable loot as a reward. It is a key block for making the new trial chambers an exciting and replayable combat experience.

How to get Trial Spawner in Minecraft

You cannot obtain a trial spawner as an item in survival mode. It cannot be crafted or mined, even with a Silk Touch pickaxe. The only way to find a trial spawner is by exploring a trial chamber. Trial chambers are the large, new structures made of copper and tuff that generate underground. These structures are filled with various combat rooms, and each room will have one or more trial spawners. When you find one, you cannot pick it up, so you have to face the challenge it presents right there. In creative mode, you can get a trial spawner from the creative inventory.

How to use Trial Spawner in Minecraft

You do not use a trial spawner in the traditional sense. Instead, you interact with it by fighting the mobs it spawns. When you get close to an active trial spawner, it will rise up and start spawning a specific type of mob, like a zombie or a skeleton. The number of mobs it spawns depends on the number of players in your group. After you have defeated all the mobs, the trial spawner will stop spawning and will eject some loot, which can include things like emeralds, diamonds, or even a trial key. After a long cooldown period of about 30 minutes, the trial spawner will reset, and you can fight the challenge again for more rewards.

How to craft Trial Spawner in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Trial Spawner make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

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The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

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Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

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Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

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So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.