Riptide

Riptide is a rare ranged enchantment in Minecraft 1.21. Riptide turns the trident into a movement tool: throwing it while you are in water or rain launches you in the direction you are aiming instead of throwing the trident itself.

Its opening level already delivers a noticeable boost — Launches player a short distance — and it climbs from there to a maximum of level 3 (III) on your trident.

Riptide 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.

Three levels control launch distance, each one flinging you further. You can only trigger it while wet — in water, standing in rain, or in a thunderstorm — which makes it weather-dependent but spectacular for travel.

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

Riptide cannot share a trident with Loyalty and Channeling. All of these sit in the same mutually-exclusive group as Riptide, so a trident can wear only one of them at once and you choose which playstyle to commit to.

Riptide 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. When the enchanting table refuses to offer Riptide, the same enchantment is available as a book from loot chest and villager trading for anvil application.

Its selection weight of 2 makes Riptide a rare roll: it surfaces only now and then on a trident, so you may need to re-roll several times or simply trade a villager for the book.