I was running around my world with my new trident and decided to use it against those pesky phantoms. I'm not very good at the game so I miss a lot. Originally I thought that I had overshot when I threw my trident at the phantom, but I saved a clip and looked back over the footage. I think I actually did hit the phantom but the trident dealt no damage and disappeared from the ground when I tried to pick it up. I left the entire 5 minutes in here for reference as I'm not sure if any previous actions affected this bug. I know there's nothing you can do about it now which sucks given I will have to grind for another one, but I hope this issue can be resolved soon. I might have to hold off on it know that I think about it just incase this doesn't get fixed. I blame the Phantoms. Thank you for your time.
Edit: It refuses to let me upload that video so it has been clipped. Sorry you don't get to see me almost die haha.
Sorry about you losing your trident.
Unfortunately, there is not enough information to go off of on this report to understand how or why this could have happened. Could you please try to reproduce this issue again and see if you are able to come up with a way to reliably get the trident to disappear? That would help tremendously in deducing what caused this. I would also double check that the trident did not become a “ghost item” which still existed in your inventory, but was not visible.