One Trident Throw Only
I don't know my version or loader
Improvement of the Drowned mob mechanics in relation to tridents. Drowned which spawn with a trident can throw it only once, but are now able to search for and pick up tridents from the ground (including player tridents)!
Motivation
I hate how Drowned I stumble upon on the sea are able to materialize new tridents out of nowhere and keep throwing them at me. They should get only one shot, which is already enough to cause havoc by destroying my boat with a chest. Ideally, they would want to pick up their thrown tridents to use them again. And that's exactly what this mod does.
Features
The mod is currently marked as beta, because it doesn't implement all the features I have planned. It should however be usable already. Here is the current progress:
🟢 Drowned can throw the held trident only once.
🟢 Drowned look around for thrown tridents and pick them up if they're within reach.
🟢 Item properties of a trident stolen from a player are preserved.
⭕ [planned] Support for NeoForge, Forge and Sponge loaders.
⭕ [planned] Trident searching/pickup mechanics are configurable and can be enabled or disabled.
🟢 Tridents thrown by Drowned lose durability.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as one_trident_throw_only-forge-1.20.1-1.1.0-BETA.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 21 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.