This Minecraft tutorial explains the Riptide enchantment with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

Background

The Riptide enchantment can be added to a trident. With this enchantment, your trident will propel you forward when you throw a trident while in the water or out in the rain (you must be wet in water).

You can add the Riptide enchantment to any trident using an enchanting table, anvil, or game command. Then throw the enchanted trident while in water or rain, and watch yourself launch forward in the direction of your target.

The maximum level for the Riptide enchantment is Level 3. This means that you can enchant a trident with up to Riptide III. The higher the level, the further you propel forward.

 

Enchantment Name Riptide
Min Level Level 1 (Riptide I)
Max Level Level 3 (Riptide III)
Description Propels you forward when you throw a trident while in the water or out in the rain (you must be wet in water)
Applies To Tridents
How to add Enchantment 1. Enchanting Table
2. Anvil
3. /enchant command

Incompatible Enchantments

In Minecraft, the Riptide enchantment can not be combined with the following enchantments:

  • Channeling
  • Loyalty

Items to Enchant with Riptide

In Minecraft, you can enchant the following items with Riptide:

How to make an Enchanted Book
How to make a Trident

Hold the Enchanted Trident

Once you have a trident that is enchanted with Riptide, stand in water or rain (you need to be wet for the Riptide enchantment to work). Then hold the enchanted trident in your hand and aim the trident like you would a bow.

In this tutorial, we are standing in a body of water that is only 1 block deep and we are aiming our trident at a horse on a hill.

Now throw the trident like you would shoot an arrow from your bow.

Once you throw the trident, the Riptide enchantment will shoot you forward in the direction of your target (it will appear as you are flying behind the trident).

In this tutorial, we have used the trident to launch ourselves right out of the water and on to a hill. The Riptide enchantment is great because it can launch you through any non-solid object such as air or water. The higher the Riptide enchantment, the further you will propel forward.

Make sure you pick up your trident afterwards so that you can use it again.

TIP: Add the Loyalty enchantment to your trident so the trident always returns and you’ve found a great way to travel!

Congratulations, you just learned all about the Riptide enchantment in Minecraft.

Enchantment ID and Name

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft, Riptide has the following enchantment ID and Name values:

Enchantment
(Minecraft ID Name)		 Max Level ID Version
Riptide
(minecraft:riptide)		 III 67 1.13
  • Enchantment is what the enchantment is called and (Minecraft ID Name) is the string value used in the /enchant command.
  • Max Level is the maximum level that you can apply for this enchantment.
  • Minecraft ID is the Internal number for the enchantment.
  • Platform is the platform that applies.
  • Version is the Minecraft version number that the enchantment was introduced for the name and ID, if applicable.

Enchant Command for Riptide

Enchant Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

Riptide I:

/enchant @p riptide 1

Riptide II:

/enchant @p riptide 2

Riptide III:

/enchant @p riptide 3

See more examples of how to use the /enchant command.

Other Enchantments

There are other enchantments in Minecraft such as:

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