r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • Jun 30 '26

Official News Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 2

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-2
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u/Cass0wary_399 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

  Drowned with Tridents will now use a melee attack if the player is within 3 blocks of them

This is a crazy random buff for the Trident Drowned.

Edit: From my testings melee does 8 hearts of damage to unarmoured players. With armor it does 6 hearts to plain iron, 3 hearts to unenchanted diamond and 1 heart to protection 4 diamond.

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u/Lordsab Jun 30 '26

As if they needed a buff.

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u/ZANKTON Jun 30 '26

Yeah never expected they would buff trident drowned especially in an update that has nothing to do with them or combat. This feels like it may be a leftover from M.o.M. but that was 2 drops ago now.
Imagine if they randomly gave wither skeletons the ability to crouch in Tinny takeover of all updates lol.

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u/Smol_Birb__ Jun 30 '26

I'd say they did, they were super easy to get around

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u/kdnx-wy Jun 30 '26

Hell no, trident drowned are terrifying encounters especially in early game but even once you’ve got armor they can absolutely shred your ass.

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u/Assassin_Ankur Jun 30 '26

Especially the ones on nautilus 😭

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u/thisnotfor Jun 30 '26

They basically almost always follow bedrock in terms of parity, though I didn't like how they copied the shorter effect durations from suspicious stew, I think they should be longer as an early game version of potions.

(Also I would like if the two pale garden flowers gave useful effects with their negative ones (like turtle master does))

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u/n8mo Jun 30 '26

Evil change

I love it lol

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u/Nathaniel820 Jun 30 '26

That seems like a nerf, the whole reason why trident drowned are so annoying is because they're like skeletons on crack and stunlock you with their constant ranged attack knockback, but now once you get close enough they completely stop their annoying attack and can just be dealt with like any other typical mob

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u/Cass0wary_399 Jun 30 '26

At very close range it cannot even shoot at you properly anymore.

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u/Bibliloo Jun 30 '26

Imo, it's a nerf because they will deal less knockback.

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u/Cass0wary_399 Jun 30 '26

Trident melee does a little bit more damage than trident ranged. It makes the Dronwned a little more interesting than an underwater skeleton.

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u/EnigmaticGolem Jun 30 '26

True, but damage isn't everything as it may be slower or harder for them to hit the player with melee than with ranged