How to find Trident in Minecraft

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: May 14, 2025, 11:08 IST

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Tridents, powerful and rare weapons in Minecraft, offer both melee and ranged attack capabilities. Players can't craft them; instead, they must hunt Drowned mobs, the only source of Tridents. Increasing drop chances involves using Looting enchantments and targeting only Trident-wielding Drowned. Repairing and enchanting the Trident further enhances its effectiveness, making it a valuable asset for any player.

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Minecraft has various weapons and Trident is one of them. It is considered as an powerful weapon as it can cause good damage to the enemy and also offers both melee and ranged capabilities making it popular among the players. Tridents cannot be crafted unlike other normal weapons which makes it very rare to find and more valuable. Players can obtain it through defeating certain kinds of hostile mobs only. Let’s understand how a player can find a Trident in Minecraft and how they can obtain it from the mob.

Best way to get Trident in Minecraft

To obtain a Trident in Minecraft players must target a particular mob found near the water bodies majorly.

How To Get A TRIDENT In MINECRAFT 1.21

Here is how you can find Trident in Minecraft with the following ways:

1. Locate Drowned mobs

Tridents are dropped by Drowned which is a kind of hostile underwater zombie

Spawning Locations:
- Rivers and ocean biomes
- Underwater ruins
- Swamp biomes during nighttime (Java Edition)

Upon defeating the drowned players have a little chance of it dropping Trident.

2. Increase drop chances

As we know the drop chance of Trident is pretty low but it can be improved by the following things:

Looting Enchantment: Equip a sword with the Looting enchantment to increase drop rates.
Kill Only Trident-Holding Drowned: Only Drowned mobs holding a Trident can drop one.
Use a Mob Farm: Build a Drowned farm by converting regular zombies using water and then killing them systematically. This boosts spawn control and farming efficiency.

3. Repairing and enchanting the Trident

After obtaining the Trident it is advised to enchant or repair it frequently.

Repair: To repair the Trident player needs to add to damaged tridents and combine them or adding a mending would repair it through XP.
Enchantments: Here are the following enchantments that you should consider

Loyalty
Channeling
Riptide
Impaling

4. Avoiding common mistakes

Players usually kill all times of Drowned but all of them don't drop Trident the ones holding it only drops. Try to use looting enchantment weapons to kill them which increases the drop rate. Trident is a rare and unique weapon and finding them in Minecraft requires patience and strategy. Players need to hunt for the right mob with right enchantments to acquire the weapon. It is a very time consuming process but in return the reward is high. The duale ability of Trident using it as a melee and ranged weapon helps players to attack enemies from far and near.

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