Impaling

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Impaling is an enchantment applied to tridents that increases damage against aquatic mobs‌, or increases damage against entities in water or rain.‌

Obtaining

Impaling can be obtained from enchantment tables, drops from mobs that have spawned in a raid,‌ books obtained by fishing, monster room chests, librarian villagers, and non-village structure loot.

Usage

Each level of Impaling adds 2.5 (HP × 1 ¹⁄₄) extra damage per hit. This applies both to the trident projectile and in melee combat.

In Java Edition, only aquatic mobs receive the extra damage. Aquatic mobs include axolotls, dolphins, guardians, elder guardians, squid, glow squid, tadpoles, turtles, and all variants of fish, but not drowned,^[1] as drowned are classified as undead mobs rather than underwater mobs. A thrown trident with Impaling I kills in one hit most of these aquatic mobs (≤10 HP) with the exception of guardians and turtles, of which a thrown trident with Impaling III+ kills in two hits (30 HP), and a thrown trident with Impaling V kills an elder guardian (80 HP) in four hits.

In Bedrock Edition, the damage applies to all mobs and players when in contact with water: underwater, in flowing water, and in rain.^[2]

In the Java Edition Combat Tests, Impaling has both of these effects.

Trident damage by Impaling level

Level	Increase	Melee	Ranged
I	adds 2.5HP × 1.25	11.5HP × 5.75	10.5HP × 5.25
II	adds 5HP	14HP × 7	13HP × 6.5
III	adds 7.5HP × 3.75	16.5HP × 8.25	15.5HP × 7.75
IV	adds 10HP	19HP × 9.5	18HP × 9
V	adds 12.5HP × 6.25	21.5HP × 10.75	20.5HP × 10.25

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Issues

Issues relating to "Impaling" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

References

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