Etho Plays Minecraft – Episode 587: Trial Chambers

The only thing I miss about old Minecraft was it being (more) DRM-Free, no stupid MS login. That and the feeling of something so new and unknown, but that feeling can never last. The latest game is definitely better overall though.

Glad to see you enjoying the chambers! Personally they were the most fun I had since I raided my first end city. I love the random potion effects and wind bursts and the quirky designs and traps in the rooms (although I get your point about there not being enough room types to match the number of chambers you need to visit to find everything they have to offer). It brings just enough chaos to put you on your toes, but also provides enough cover to make it fun and beatable. I also appreciate you making the point about setting limits to match your skill level – I see a lot of people complaining that the game is too easy, or something is too op, etc. but failing to consider less skilled or younger players in their evaluation of a new feature, or even just that some things are designed to be accessible in early or mid game as an option. The chambers are like what everyone always wished the dungeons were, and I think they did a great job with them, in my opinion.

I almost missed this! Let’s Go Etho!

Episode 600 {season 2} title New beginnings we've been on this world since I was a teen im an old man now mych love Ethoooo

Hey Etho, do you ever plan, or have even thought about, using vanilla+ mods to enhance your survival world? I love playing vanilla too but I like adding small things like a custom skybox or a zoom button or better shift clicking in inventories and it surprised me a little when I saw it say vanilla in the f3 screen. Love the videos, keep up the good work!

20:28 Right there 😂

I may be a new Ethogirl but I think his training in mcci is showing in his evasive maneuvers

Hearing etho get excited about finding keys is giving me post decked out 2 depression again

Etho: everything's going great here.

The viewers: you might have an arrow or two stuck in you

The trial chambers actually have an ‘official entrance which consists of a naturally spawning 3×3 door iirc

when you told the story about the cat i was like thinkin': thank god i have a dog

You were going to say that your cat stayed 4 "blocks" away, weren't you? Lol

Always love the vids Etho ^^ The 4 dispensers and the pressure plate is a good idea for some mini games. It crashes my game every time I try it though XD I play on Switch so I expected no less lol. Will be neat to see what kinds of games and other things people will do with the wind charge.

as soon as I saw etho take off his netherite armor I knew he was going to die more than a few times lol

What a novel concept!

I think the trial chambers work like a dungeon, the ones like in d&d and similar worlds. Minecraft should've given a feature wherein you can craft your own map and edit it as much as you like because dungeons are better explored with maps, especially maps that you yourself created by exploring said dungeons. Maybe entrances potruding in the surface as well so that every trial chamber feels like a proper dungeon, not just something you enter somewhere randomly.

etho having fun is best etho! so many possibilities!!

I haven't felt this dramatic tension since the last Decked Out!!

Good stuff! I look forward to your next trial chamber exploits! 🙃

I think the trial chambers are great in iron armor and with friends but kinda fall apart when you just go in guns blazing in full netherite. Maybe some kind of scaling difficulty based on armor equipped mechanic would make sense. You could always switch back to iron armor if you wanted a challenge.

wow.. elytra launchers just got way easier to build hah. i tried double stacking the dispensers but it didn't add any height. you can place one extra dispenser below the pressure plate though to get 5 total dispensers which launch you 83 blocks in the air

Banger ep

IMO the wind charge is what rocket’s game design should have been. Elytra’s movement is way too overpowered to easily farm movement items for, the wind charge mechanics with player and redstone interactivity is WAY more both balanced and fun. The player base would hate it so I don’t think they’ll remove rocket boosting but wow the way wind charges work is infinitely more exciting game design wise