India, July 1 -- Trial Chambers stabilize with smoother runs, no new mobs or loot.

Minecraft Java Edition got a surprise quality-of-life update this week with 1.21.7. While it's a small patch on the surface, it fixes critical crashes related to the new Trial Chambers. 1.21.7 was released just days after the big Tricky Trials update (1.21). 1.21.7 favors stability over content.

Players exploring Minecraft's underground combat dungeons were getting crashes in the game, especially when fighting Breeze or opening loot chests. Mojang says 1.21.7 "fixes a critical issue that caused the game to crash when interacting with Trial Chambers."

The other issue fixed crash events caused by terrain-gen errors, especially in rare or custom biomes that...