Keep Trident
There is nothing quite as frustrating in Minecraft as throwing a loyal trident at a drowned, watching it bounce off, and then realizing your hard-earned weapon has swapped places with a piece of rotten flesh. The Keep Trident add-on fixes that specific headache by making sure your trident always comes back to the slot it belongs in, no matter what drops on the ground in the meantime.
This small but mighty quality-of-life mod is perfect for players who rely on tridents as their main ranged and melee weapon. Once you try it, going back to vanilla behavior feels like a downgrade.
What Does Keep Trident Actually Do?
In vanilla Minecraft, when you throw a loyalty trident, the game briefly frees up the inventory slot it occupied. If you pick up an item during that window, that item can slide into the trident's slot. When your trident returns, it gets pushed somewhere else, or worse, it can end up lost in the chaos of combat. Keep Trident eliminates this problem entirely.
The mod reserves the trident's slot while it is in flight. Loot you collect during that time goes to other empty slots instead, and your trident snaps back exactly where it started. The result is a trident that is effectively unlosable, which matters a lot when you are fighting in the middle of a raid or exploring an ocean monument.
Key Benefits at a Glance
- Your loyalty trident always returns to its original hotbar or inventory slot.
- Picked-up loot never hijacks the trident slot mid-flight.
- The trident becomes completely unlosable through normal gameplay.
- Works seamlessly with existing worlds and servers.
- Lightweight, with no performance impact on your game.
Supported Minecraft Versions and Loaders
Compatibility is one of the strongest points of this add-on. It supports Minecraft 1.18.2 all the way through 1.21.1, covering a huge range of popular survival and modded setups. Loader support breaks down like this:
- Fabric across the full supported version range.
- Forge for versions up to and including 1.20.4.
- NeoForge for 1.20.5 and newer releases.
Whether you are running a lightweight Fabric client or a heavily modded NeoForge pack, there is a build that fits. The mod is licensed under MIT, so pack authors and server owners can include it freely. It was created by Deadly Artist, who publishes other projects on their personal site.
How to Install Keep Trident
Getting this add-on running takes only a couple of minutes. If you want to download Keep Trident, grab the file that matches your loader and game version, then follow these steps.
Step-by-Step Installation
- Install Fabric, Forge, or NeoForge for your chosen Minecraft version first.
- Place the matching Keep Trident jar file into your mods folder.
- Drop any required dependencies into the same folder if your loader asks for them.
- Launch the game and confirm the mod appears in your mod list.
- Load a world, throw a loyalty trident, and watch it return to the right slot.
For players who prefer a smoother setup, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process in one click, letting you add Keep Trident to a fresh profile without manually sorting jars or matching loader versions. It is a handy shortcut if you manage several modpacks at once.
Server owners should remember that this is a behavior mod, so it needs to be installed on the server side for the slot reservation to apply to all players. In singleplayer, client-side installation is enough.
Why This Mod Belongs in Your Loadout
Tridents are expensive to obtain. You need to defeat drowned, often farm them for hours, and then enchant with loyalty, impaling, and channeling to make them truly powerful. Losing one to a slot-swap bug feels unfair, especially during a tense boss fight or a Nether expedition where every inventory slot counts.
Keep Trident for Minecraft removes that risk with a tiny footprint. There are no new items, no complicated configs, and no visual clutter. It simply makes the game behave the way you always assumed it should.
Who Should Use It
- Survival players who main a loyalty trident.
- Server admins wanting fairer combat for their community.
- Modpack creators building polished vanilla-plus experiences.
- Anyone tired of digging through chests to find a trident that vanished mid-fight.
Final Thoughts
Small fixes often deliver the biggest quality-of-life improvements, and Keep Trident is a perfect example. It solves a niche but genuinely annoying problem, supports a wide spread of Minecraft versions, and works across Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge. If your trident is your signature weapon, this add-on deserves a permanent spot in your mods folder.
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