Minecraft

Craft a brush and target warm ocean ruins to unearth suspicious sand; that’s where sniffer eggs come from. After you hatch two sniffers, breeding produces more eggs on demand, letting you scale up quickly while you explore the plants this mob uncovers on land. If you’re new to the sniffer, see the official overview on Minecraft.net for context on the mob and its role in Trails & Tales: Sniffer.

What you’ll need

• Brush (recipe below) to extract items from suspicious sand without destroying them.
• Warm Ocean biome access (coral reefs and aquamarine water are reliable indicators)

The Heavy Core is a rare drop from Ominous Vaults inside Trial Chambers and is required to craft the Mace. The drop rate is low (about 7.5% per Ominous Vault), so a consistent approach and realistic expectations matter as much as combat skill.

Method 1: Standard progression (most reliable)

Step 1: Locate a Trial Chamber. Explore deep underground for large copper-and-tuff structures that generate as “Trial Chambers.” These contain Trial Spawners and Vaults.

Step 2: Acquire the Bad Omen effect. Defeat a Pillager Captain or use an Ominous Bottle to gain Bad Omen; this is required to trigger Ominous