Channeling

Channeling

Maximum level	I
Primary items
Secondary items	None
Enchantment weight	1
Identifier	channeling
Incompatible with	Riptide

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Channeling is a tridentenchantment that produces lightning when thrown at a mob or lightning rod while a thunderstorm is occurring.

Obtaining

Channeling is available from enchantment tables, raid drops,‌ books obtained by fishing, minecart chests, monster room 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 for the enchantment to work. This enchantment allows the player to change creepers into charged creepers, villagers into witches, pigs into zombified piglins, and mooshrooms into their opposite color (red into brown and vice versa).

In Java Edition, Channeling doesn't affect mobs in some circumstances. A mob cannot be: in water, in lava, in powder snow, in a cobweb, on soul sand, on a honey block, on snow (if snow layer is 8), in a minecart or in a boat while being hit with this enchantment. Mobs in minecarts and boats can be struck only if passive.

However, it should be noted that in the circumstances stated above, even though lightning cannot be summoned if the mob itself is hit by a Channeling trident, they are still affected by the lightning if it strikes nearby. For instance, if a Channeling trident hits an armor stand next to a creeper in water, the lightning is summoned as normal, and the creeper becomes charged from being in the affected radius of the lightning.

Channeling tridents thrown at lightning rods always create lightning without the need for a mob.Lightning created with a Channeling trident cannot be redirected into a lightning rod.

Lightning from a Channeling trident never spawns a skeleton trap horse.

A drowned wielding a trident with Channeling cannot summon lightning.

Incompatibilities

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Trident thunder cracks	Weather	When a trident with Channeling strikes a lightning rod	item.trident.thunder	subtitles.item.trident.thunder	5.0	1.0	16 { "pitch": "1.0", "subtitle": "Trident thunder cracks", "source": "Weather", "id": "item.trident.thunder", "distance": "16", "desc": "When a trident with Channeling strikes a lightning rod", "sounds": [ "Trident thunder1.ogg", "Trident thunder2.ogg" ], "volume": "5.0", "java": "1", "translationkey": "subtitles.item.trident.thunder" }
	Trident thunder cracks	Friendly Creatures	When a Channeling trident hits a mob	item.trident.thunder	subtitles.item.trident.thunder	5.0	1.0	16 { "pitch": "1.0", "subtitle": "Trident thunder cracks", "source": "Friendly Creatures", "id": "item.trident.thunder", "distance": "16", "desc": "When a Channeling trident hits a mob", "sounds": [ "Trident thunder1.ogg", "Trident thunder2.ogg" ], "volume": "5.0", "java": "1", "translationkey": "subtitles.item.trident.thunder" }

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	When a trident with Channeling strikes a mob‌	item.trident.thunder	1.0‌ 1000.0‌	1.0 { "sounds": [ "Trident thunder1.ogg", "Trident thunder2.ogg" ], "source": "Players", "volume": "1.0<wbr>&zwnj;<sup class=\"noprint nowrap Inline-Template \" title=\"\">&#91;<i><span title=\"This statement does not apply to upcoming versions of Minecraft\">until</span> [[Bedrock Edition 1.20.30|BE 1.20.30]]</i>&#93;</sup>[[Category:Upcoming]][[Category:Bedrock Edition upcoming tag]]<br>1000.0<wbr>&zwnj;<sup class=\"noprint nowrap Inline-Template \" title=\"\">&#91;<i><span title=\"This statement applies only to upcoming versions of Minecraft.\">upcoming:</span> [[Bedrock Edition 1.20.30|BE 1.20.30]]</i>&#93;</sup>[[Category:Upcoming]][[Category:Bedrock Edition upcoming tag]]", "id": "item.trident.thunder", "pitch": "1.0", "bedrock": "1", "desc": "When a trident with Channeling strikes a mob<wbr>'\"`UNIQ--ref-0000001D-QINU`\"'<wbr>'\"`UNIQ--ref-0000001E-QINU`\"'<wbr>&zwnj;<sup class=\"noprint nowrap Inline-Template \" title=\"\">&#91;<i><span title=\"This statement applies only to upcoming versions of Minecraft.\">upcoming:</span> [[Bedrock Edition 1.20.30|BE 1.20.30]]</i>&#93;</sup>[[Category:Upcoming]][[Category:Bedrock Edition upcoming tag]]" }

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Channeling	channeling	enchantment.minecraft.channeling

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Channeling	channeling	32	enchantment.tridentChanneling

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Surge Protector	Protect a Villager from an undesired shock without starting a fire	Adventure	Be within 30 blocks of a lightning strike that doesn't set any blocks on fire, while an unharmed villager is within or up to six blocks above a 30×30×30 volume centered on the lightning strike.	adventure/lightning_rod_with_villager_no_fire {"anchor": "", "title": "Surge Protector", "icon": "Lightning Rod", "icon-style": "plain", "title": "Surge Protector", "description": "Protect a [[Villager]] from an undesired [[Thunderstorm#Lightning|shock]] without starting a fire", "parent": "Adventure", "requirements": "Be within 30 blocks of a lightning strike that doesn't set any blocks on fire, while an unharmed villager is within or up to six blocks above a 30×30×30 volume centered on the lightning strike.", "resourcelocation": "adventure/lightning_rod_with_villager_no_fire", "rewards": "—" }
	Very Very Frightening	Strike a Villager with lightning	A Throwaway Joke	Hit a villager with lightning created by a trident with the Channeling enchantment.	adventure/very_very_frightening {"anchor": "", "title": "Very Very Frightening", "icon": "Trident", "icon-style": "plain", "title": "Very Very Frightening", "description": "Strike a Villager with lightning", "parent": "A Throwaway Joke", "requirements": "Hit a [[villager]] with [[Thunderstorm#Lightning|lightning]] created by a [[trident]] with the [[Channeling]] enchantment.", "resourcelocation": "adventure/very_very_frightening", "rewards": "—" }

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Channeling is added alongside the addition of tridents. {"type": "java", "version": "1.13", "snap": "18w07a", "content": "Channeling is added alongside the addition of (link to trident article, displayed as tridents)."}
		18w14a			Channeling is no longer compatible with Riptide. {"type": "java", "version": "1.13", "snap": "18w14a", "content": "Channeling is no longer compatible with (link to Riptide article, displayed as Riptide)."}
1.17		20w45a			Channeling can now be triggered by hitting lightning rods. {"type": "java", "version": "1.17", "snap": "20w45a", "content": "Channeling can now be triggered by hitting (link to lightning rod article, displayed as lightning rods)."}
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added Channeling as part of Experimental Gameplay, able to be applied to the new tridents. {"type": "bedrock", "version": "1.4.0", "snap": "beta 1.2.13.8", "content": "Added Channeling as part of (link to Experimental Gameplay article, displayed as Experimental Gameplay), able to be applied to the new (link to trident article, displayed as tridents)."}
		beta 1.2.14.2			Channeling has been fully implemented and is no longer part of Experimental Gameplay. {"type": "bedrock", "version": "1.4.0", "snap": "beta 1.2.14.2", "content": "Channeling has been fully implemented and is no longer part of Experimental Gameplay."}
					Tridents are now fully implemented and can now be enchanted with Channeling. {"type": "bedrock", "version": "1.4.0", "snap": "beta 1.2.14.2", "content": "(link to Trident article, displayed as Tridents) are now fully implemented and can now be enchanted with Channeling."}
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Channeling is added alongside the addition of tridents. {"type": "console", "xbox": "TU69", "xbone": "none", "ps": "1.76", "wiiu": "Patch 38", "switch": "none", "content": "Channeling is added alongside the addition of tridents."}

Issues

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