Impaling

Impaling

Maximum level	V
Primary items
Secondary items	None
Enchantment weight	2

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Impaling is an enchantment for a trident, causing the trident to deal extra damage on each hit against aquatic mobs‌, or extra damage to mobs in water‌.

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, squids, glow squids, tadpoles, turtles, and all variants of fish, but not drowned, 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, as well as in Java Edition Combat Test 4 and after, the damage applies to all mobs and players when in contact with water: underwater, in flowing water, and in rain.

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:

Name	Identifier	[hide]Translation key
Impaling	impaling	enchantment.minecraft.impaling

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Impaling	impaling	29	enchantment.tridentImpaling

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			18w07a				Along with the addition of tridents, the Impaling enchantment has now been added.
1.17			20w51a				Impaling now deals extra damage to the axolotls.
1.21.2			24w33a				Drowned can now use the Impaling enchantment.
[hide]Upcoming Java Edition
Combat Tests			Combat Test 4				Impaling now deals extra damage to all mobs in water or rain.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.13 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			beta 1.2.13.8				Added the Impaling enchantment as part of Experimental Gameplay, which is able to be applied to the brand-new tridents.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				The Impaling enchantment has now been fully implemented.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Along with the addition of tridents, the Impaling enchantment can now be applied to them.

Issues

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