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Channeling is a trident enchantment that produces lightning.

Obtaining

Channeling is available from enchantment tables, raid drops,‌[Bedrock Edition only] books obtained by fishing, minecart chests, librarian villagers, and from chests found in Overworld non-village structures.

Usage

Channeling summons a lightning bolt when a mob is hit by a thrown trident if there is currently a thunderstorm occurring.

The mob must be exposed to the open sky in order for the enchantment to work. This enchantment allows the player to change creepers, villagers, and red mooshrooms/brown mooshrooms into charged creepers, witches and brown mooshrooms/red mooshrooms, respectively.

In Java Edition, Channeling doesn't affect mobs in some circumstances[1]. A mob cannot be: in Water, in Lava, in a Cobweb, on Soul sand, on Honey block, on Snow (if snow layer is 8), in a Minecart and in a Boat while being hit with this enchantment. Mobs in minecarts and boats can only be struck if not passive.

Channeling tridents thrown at lightning rods will always create thunder without the need for a mob. ‌[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).]

Incompatibilities

Channeling and Riptide are mutually exclusive. If combined using commands, Riptide supercedes Channeling.

Sounds

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Trident thunder cracks??item.trident.thundersubtitles.item.trident.thunder??16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Channelingchannelingenchantment.minecraft.channeling

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Channelingchanneling32enchantment.tridentChanneling

History

Java Edition
1.1318w07aChanneling is added alongside the addition of tridents.
18w14aChanneling is no longer compatible with Riptide.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.1720w45aChanneling can now be triggered by hitting lightning rods.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.13.8Added Channeling as part of Experimental Gameplay, able to be applied to the new tridents.
beta 1.2.14.2Channeling has been fully implemented and is no longer part of Experimental Gameplay.
Tridents are now fully implemented and can now be enchanted with Channeling.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69 1.76 Patch 38Channeling is added alongside the addition of tridents.

Issues

Issues relating to "Channeling" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

References

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