Improved Tridents (datapack)

This datapack adds sensible improvements and quality-of-life to the Trident to make it a viable melee and ranged weapon adjacent to the Sword.

Requires: Minecraft 1.21.x +

The changes are intended to be as fairly balanced as possible. For balance issues and bugs, please open an issue here on Github.

For more detail, see Features and for unfinished work see TODO!

Install

Simply download the archive from Releases, create a new folder named improved-tridents within the datapacks folder, and extract the downloaded archive into that improved-tridents folder.

If downloading from Modrinth:

• use the Modrinth app to install it
• or you may download the archive, create a new folder named improved-tridents within the datapacks folder, and extract the downloaded archive into that improved-tridents folder.

Important note: If you have an old version and are NOT using the Modrinth App, be sure to delete the entire folder (improved-tridents folder) from datapacks before installing!

Features

1. Craftable Tridents

Recipe: 3 Prismatic Shards + 2 Breeze Rods

S S S
  B
  B

S = Prismatic Shard
B = Breeze Rod

2. Smeltable Tridents

A single trident smelts into 1 Breeze Rod

3. Loyalty Beyond the Void

Tridents enchanted with Loyalty always return from the Void (pretty nice for the End)

4. Enchantments (see TODO for the unfinished stuff)

• Looting - mobs to drop more items and increases the chances of rare drops
• Loyalty - has 30% faster recall-to-hand when thrown
• Fire Aspect - melee attack sets attacked targets on fire
• Knockback - increases melee knockback
• Piercing¹ - arrows / projectiles to pass through entities
• Impaling^{1 2} - deal extra damage to all wet mobs (in water/rain/waterlogged blocks) and aquatic mobs
  • BIG THANK YOU to Special_TT for this feature!
  • Special_TT opened an issue permitting me to use his [VET]Vanilla Enchantment Tweaker datapack as reference for this implementation!
• Sharpness² - increases melee and ranged/thrown damage
• Smite² - increases damage to undead mobs (Bogged, Drowned, Husk, Phantom, Skeleton, Wither, Wither Skeleton, Zoglin, Zombie, Zombie Villager, Zombified Piglin)
• Bane of Arthropods² - increases damage to arthropod mobs (spiders, cave spiders, bees, silverfish, and endermites)

¹ Piercing may not be applied with Impaling

² Only ONE of these enchantments (Impaling / Sharpness / Smite/ Bane of Arthropods) may be applied

5. Enchanting Table

Provides the following enchantments with the same vanilla weights as Sword / crossbow enchants:

• Looting
• Fire Aspect
• Knockback
• Sharpness
• Smite
• Bane of Arthropods
• Piercing

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TODO

• Trident returns to inventory slot it was thrown from
  • dev note: tag the trident when thrown, save slot value, then run an if command to check if the tag exists and send it to that slot / offhand

• Enchantments
  • Piercing¹ - arrows / projectiles to pass through entities