[MC-128702] Drowned don't drop trident anymore

Testing on my drowned farm dozen of drowned don't drop me any trident and also rotten flash and armor are significantly reduced. then if i switch to 18w15a, the loot went normal and drowned and zombie release a lot of items.

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MC-130508 Converted Drowned not spawning with Trident or dropping Trident Resolved

MC-130670 Drowned and trident Resolved

MC-132161 Drowned don't drop trident anymore Resolved

MC-134147 Drowned not drop Trident Resolved

MC-134435 Drowned not spawning with or dropping tridents Resolved

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MC-128205 Drowned drop tridents from both loot table and held items Resolved

MC-140121 Tridents not being acquired by non-player killing methods. Resolved

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Dimitri Pinna 2018-04-20T09:06:21Z

After 30 minutes of farming with a sword looting 3 (100-200 drowned) no trident in the loot.. I hope it's not a "work as intended" behaviour..

user-f2760 2018-04-20T09:07:28Z

It has to be holding a trident in order to be able to drop a trident.

Dimitri Pinna 2018-04-20T09:25:31Z

Ok it does make sense, and explain everything..

Dennis Fehr 2018-05-08T03:48:58Z

Is it supposed to be 100% drop rate when they hold one? Because the last two didn't drop one (using 18w16a)

Dimitri Pinna 2018-05-08T08:01:01Z

Nope, it's a vary rare drop (0.5% i remember) and now is ONLY if they hold one.

Aisah Rashwan 2018-07-21T01:03:33Z

the wiki has no mention of the reqirement that drowned must be holding a trident for this to occur. It says "

0-1 [
Trident|https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Trident]^[^{Bedrock Edition}^only^] (3.7% chance each, 4% chance with Looting I, 4.3% chance with Looting II and 4.7% chance with Looting III).
Any picked-up equipment has 100% chance of dropping and will drop with the same damage level it had when picked up."

This bug has not been resolved.

tryashtar 2018-07-21T01:05:28Z

The wiki is incorrect. It's written by community members and is not an official source.

Aisah Rashwan 2018-07-21T01:14:37Z

where can we go for an official list of these drop tables?

Arthaiser 2018-07-24T11:49:28Z

i have killed 350 drowned if my statistics page is correct, maybe 10 of them with a bow, but the rest for sure with a looting III sword. some of them had tridents, all of them spawned naturally on an ocean biome, still, no trident drop.

Tokes 2018-11-28T04:11:05Z

Don't quote bedrock edition odds from the wiki. This is not a bedrock edition ticket. This is Java Edition. Tridents aren't on the loot_table AT ALL.

The only way you can get a trident on Java Edition is if a drowned spawns with one in it's hand and you kill it. Then you have whatever highly rare chance of it dropping what it's holding (1 in 100 or less I believe but don't quote me). Every entity that spawns with something in it's hand has a stat for the chances of dropping it. It's always low (not counting items picked up after spawning). When was the last time you saw a zombie with a sword actually drop it's sword? Yeah that's how rare a trident in Java Edition is. Wither skeleton heads are highly common compared to tridents.

Of course if it's your world you can just write an edited loot table file and drop it in the appropriate folder in you world's datapack folder. Then there WILL be a chance in hell of you actually getting a trident. Or you can wait until Mojang finally fixes this rarity bug. Might be a year or two knowing Mojang, especially since Bedrock Edition is experiencing a "tridents are too common" bug at the same time.