[MC-127970] Using Riptide on a trident with an item in your off-hand causes visual glitch with said item

The bug

18w14a added a new animation when using riptide on a trident, which causes the trident item in your hand to be turned horizontally instead of being held on its side as normal.

However, if you have any item in your offhand, the item in your offhand will also be turned horizontally but will also appear at a very strange position on your screen.

How to reproduce

Obtain a riptide trident and a shield

/item replace entity @s weapon.mainhand with minecraft:trident{Enchantments:[{id:"riptide",lvl:3}]}
/item replace entity @s weapon.offhand with minecraft:shield

Ensure that you're in first person, enter some water, and use the riptide enchantment to launch yourself
Look at the shield held in your offhand as you do this, and take note as to whether or not items held in the offhand render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident
→ ❌ Items held in the offhand render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident

Expected behavior

Items held in the offhand would not render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident.

Code analysis

@unknown has done a code analysis in this comment.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 32

MC-278974 （machine translation，Regarding the loopholes of the Trident in rapids）激流三叉戟会让干扰其他物品的动作 Resolved

MC-268752 shield blocking screen when using riptide trident Resolved

MC-261850 Off-hand item & Riptide Trident Resolved

MC-259943 Sheild covers up most of the screen while using Riptide Resolved

MC-228794 When I use a riptide trident with a shield in my off-hand it glitches. Resolved

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relates to 1

MC-237081 Switching to another item immediately after using Riptide causes it to be held strangely Open

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Nguyen 2018-04-19T14:28:54Z

It looks quite cool though 🙂.

Greg Milson 2018-07-11T11:47:37Z

Affects 1.13-pre7

[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-07-31T21:53:44Z

Confirmed for 18w30b

[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-08-01T17:45:03Z

Confirmed for 18w31a

[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-08-08T14:42:03Z

Confirmed for 18w32a

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[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-08-15T15:57:29Z

Confirmed for 18w33a

[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-08-16T23:43:57Z

Confirmed for 1.13.1-pre1

Cavinator1 2019-01-13T01:49:59Z

This bug appears to be fixed in 19w02a, but only because at some stage or another in 1.14's snapshots they removed the animation where when you use the riptide trident, in your hand it no longer goes sideways, hence meaning this bug no longer happens.

Cavinator1 2019-01-13T01:53:58Z

Never mind, forget what I said above, another bug was making the animation not play.

As for this bug, it is confirmed for 19w02a.

ZeNico13 2019-04-03T21:44:48Z

Still in 19w13b and 19w14a

ZeNico13 2019-04-10T19:44:18Z

Still in 19w14b and 1.14 Pre-Release 1

ZeNico13 2019-04-12T19:51:03Z

Still in 1.14 Pre-Release 2

ZeNico13 2019-04-19T10:40:54Z

Still in 1.14 pre-3, 1.14 pre-4 and 1.14 pre-5

Note: it does not affect all items

ZeNico13 2019-04-23T19:12:42Z

Still in 1.14 Release

ZeNico13 2019-05-13T15:56:55Z

Still in 1.14.1 Release

ZeNico13 2019-05-17T18:14:23Z

Still in 1.14.2 Pre-Release 1 and 1.14.2 Pre-Release 2

Th0mas_02 2019-07-25T12:55:59Z

Still in the game in 1.14.4 Release

Ryan F 2019-07-25T13:02:39Z

Yeah found the same thing in 1.14.4, seems to work with many items in off hand like crafting table, golden carrot, bow, bamboo or fishing rod.

Christopher Prachniak 2019-11-04T17:15:57Z

Biggest issue is with shield, because it's just so big. __ It's a little discouraging to use it with trident because it blinds you.

pulpetti 2020-07-20T23:48:32Z

In 20w29a

bugsbugsbugs 2020-10-02T16:48:02Z

This also works the other way round. If you use a riptide trident in your offhand, it causes a visual glitch with the item in the mainhand.

Chungui23 2020-11-26T00:24:37Z

Still affects 20w48a.

Avoma 2021-02-18T10:44:22Z

Can confirm in 21w07a.

Avoma 2021-03-02T17:03:42Z

Can confirm in 21w08b.

Avoma 2021-04-26T17:18:54Z

Can confirm in 21w16a.

Ayeg Carrot 2021-06-05T11:44:19Z

I thought it was intentional:

If you put the riptide trident in your offhand and put a fire aspect sword on your main hand and kill a mob by holding and releading right click, the mob will be "cooked" with the fire aspect sword even though you didnt left click with it.

So it's like you're using the sword along with the trident.

I might be wrong though

DogEatingSpaghetti 2021-06-05T12:35:17Z

Yeah, same happens if you got a bow in off hand and a sword in the main hand

NightPlay 2021-07-07T07:15:01Z

can confirm in 1.17. its also even weirder with a shield

Avoma 2021-10-19T08:09:36Z

I am able to confirm this behavior in 21w41a. Here are some extra details regarding this problem.

The Bug:

Items held in the offhand render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident.

Steps to Reproduce:

Obtain a riptide trident and a shield.

/item replace entity @s weapon.mainhand with minecraft:trident{Enchantments:[{id:"riptide",lvl:3}]}
/item replace entity @s weapon.offhand with minecraft:shield

Ensure that you're in first person, enter some water, and use the riptide enchantment to launch yourself.
Look at the shield held in your offhand as you do this, and take note as to whether or not items held in the offhand render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident.

Observed Behavior:

Items held in the offhand render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident.

Expected Behavior:

Items held in the offhand would not render in the incorrect position in first person when using a riptide trident.

Avoma 2021-12-11T13:29:28Z

Can confirm in 1.18.1.

null 2021-12-22T22:23:35Z

Code analysis based on 1.18.1 with yarn mappings.

The rendering of the held items is done by net.minecraft.client.render.item.HeldItemRenderer#renderFirstPersonItem(AbstractClientPlayerEntity, float, float, Hand, float, ItemStack, float, MatrixStack, VertexConsumerProvider, int). This method checks player.isUsingRiptide(), and if that is true, then it applies some transformations to the held item. These transformations are fine for tridents, but don't play nicely with some items, such as shields.

The easiest way to fix this would be to only apply the transformations if the item to render is a trident; that is, replace player.isUsingRiptide() with player.isUsingRiptide() && item.isOf(Items.TRIDENT). This keeps the shield (and any other non-trident item) in the normal place:

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Marcus Ingerslev 2022-02-04T12:57:27Z

Could someone make a texture pack that fixes this?

If not, how could I make the pack myself?

Avoma 2022-04-04T11:23:41Z

Can confirm in 1.18.2 and 22w13a.

samswi 2022-06-17T11:07:50Z

Can confirm in 1.19

SeaOfPixels 2023-02-14T08:33:08Z

Can confirm in 23w06a.

SeaOfPixels 2023-03-02T01:39:16Z

Can confirm in 1.19.4pre3

SeaOfPixels 2023-03-23T08:04:57Z

Can confirm in 23w12a

SeaOfPixels 2023-05-04T10:37:07Z

Can confirm in 23w18a.

SeaOfPixels 2023-06-07T12:03:56Z

Can confirm in 1.20 release canidate 1

SeaOfPixels 2023-06-13T14:12:04Z

Can confirm in 1.20.1

SeaOfPixels 2023-08-03T07:25:27Z

Can confirm in 23w31a.

SeaOfPixels 2023-08-17T07:06:38Z

Can confirm in 23w32a.

SeaOfPixels 2023-09-30T07:05:28Z

Can confirm in 1.20.2

SeaOfPixels 2023-10-05T16:08:11Z

Can confirm in 23w40a

SeaOfPixels 2023-10-26T10:04:26Z

In 23w43a.

SeaOfPixels 2023-12-31T11:45:32Z

Can confirm in 23w51a/23w51b

SeaOfPixels 2024-02-07T17:36:14Z

Can confirm in 24w06a, affects wind charges

SeaOfPixels 2024-02-14T23:13:01Z

Confirmed in 24w07a

SeaOfPixels 2024-04-13T12:25:16Z

Confirmed in 1.20.5 pre1

SeaOfPixels 2024-04-26T13:42:42Z

Can confirm in 1.20.5 & 1.20.6-rc1

SeaOfPixels 2025-02-22T01:49:08Z

Best way to fix this is just to make it so the first-person riptide animation only plays for the item being used to riptide. If the trident used to riptide is mainhand, the animation only plays for the mainhand, and vice versa.

Willy 2025-08-11T13:56:23Z

Can confirm for 1.21.8