Loyalty

Loyalty is an uncommon ranged enchantment in Minecraft 1.21. Loyalty makes a thrown trident fly back to your hand after it lands, so you can use it as a ranged weapon without losing it.

Its opening level already delivers a noticeable boost — Trident returns slowly — and it climbs from there to a maximum of level 3 (III) on your trident.

Loyalty tops out at level 3, shown as III on the trident, and the gap between the levels is where the enchantment's character really lives.

Its three levels govern only the return speed — higher levels bring the trident back faster. The mechanic itself is binary: at any level the trident comes home, as long as you have not thrown it into the void.

Loyalty fits exactly one item — the trident — and nothing else will accept it, so it is a dedicated trident enchantment through and through.

Loyalty cannot share a trident with Riptide. Because of that single conflict you have to pick either Loyalty or Riptide for any given trident — never both.

Loyalty can be rolled directly at an enchanting table, where reaching its top level of III on a trident generally wants a fully bookshelf-powered table at roughly level 5. If the table is not cooperating, the Loyalty book also comes from loot chest and villager trading, ready to apply on an anvil.

Its selection weight of 5 makes Loyalty an uncommon roll: it appears with middling frequency when enchanting a trident — common enough to plan around, but not guaranteed on any given roll.