How to get Heavy Core in Minecraft

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Players in a Trial Chamber in Minecraft
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There’s plenty of new content in Minecraft following the Tricky Trials update, including the newly added Heavy Core. We’ll tell you exactly how to get hold of this item.

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Minecraft added the Heavy Core in the Tricky Trial update and it’s one of two resources required to craft a Mace, alongside Breeze Rods, making it a very valuable item.

If you want to add a Mace to your arsenal and are searching for a Heavy Core to use in crafting, we’ve got all the details you need below.

How to get Heavy Core in Minecraft

Running with a Mace in Minecraft.
Brace for the mace. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The only way to get a Heavy Core in Minecraft is to open a Vault inside a Trial Chamber with a Trial Key. However, there is no guarantee you’ll get a Heavy Core. There’s only a small chance the Vault will contain one.

The first step is to locate a Trial Chamber and start looking for Trial Keys, which are found mostly from Trial Spawners but also have a small chance to drop from pots and chests within a Trial Chamber.

Once you have a Trial Key, use it to unlock a Vault within a Trial Chamber and hope RNG is on your side. Each Vault can only be opened by a player once, so you may have to do plenty of farming before you’re lucky enough to grab a Heavy Core.

Once you have a Heavy Core and have crafted a Mace, you can make the weapon even more powerful by using the best Enchantments—some of which are exclusive to the new weapon.

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