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MC-147173

Using riptide tridents while elytra flying can boost the player to excessive speeds

The bug

Using a Riptide trident while flying with Elytra can cause the player to fly at extremely high speeds, much faster than can be achieved using firework boosting. This only occurs if the player uses a Riptide trident while not currently under a firework's boosting effect.

It seems that Riptide tridents will keep accelerating an Elytra flyer without an upper speed limit, unlike firework boosting (using more fireworks while already being boosted will not cause a noticeable speed increase).

To reproduce

  1. Set /weather rain

  2. Give yourself and elytra and some fireworks with duration 3 (1 paper and 3 gunpowder in a crafting table)

  3. Enchant a trident with any level of Riptide

  4. Open the F3 coordinates display

  5. Fly with the elytra while constantly using fireworks; notice that a single firework accelerates you to maximum speed and the speed doesn't keep increasing.

  6. Fly and throw the trident several times; notice that the speed rapidly increases after each throw.

Demonstration video; notice how fast the Z coordinate is changing.

Linked issues

Comments 12

Seems intentional or "Won't fix" for me

Hi there!

I can confirm for release 1.16.2 and 1.16.3rc1. (sometimes higher than 250 blocks per second!)

Can confirm in 20w51a.

Can confirm in 21w03a. As stated above, you can reach 200+ blocks per second using this method).

Can confirm in 21w05a.

2 more comments

Can confirm in 1.16.5 and 21w08b.

Can confirm in 1.17.1

Can confirm in 1.19.2 and 22w43a.

Can confirm in 23w07a

I suggest to make this works as intended since it is widly useful in survival for saving rockets and already existed for 6+ years. Fixing it will make the whole community mad.

Sonicwave

(Unassigned)

Confirmed

Player

firework_rocket

Minecraft 1.13.2, Minecraft 19w13b, Minecraft 1.14 Pre-Release 5, 1.14.4, 1.15 Pre-release 3, ..., 24w33a, 1.21.3, 1.21.4 Release Candidate 1, 1.21.4, 25w03a

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