[ARCHIVED] Trident Shards
by Rebel459
[ARCHIVED] Trident Shards adds a crafting ingredient for tridents, dropped by Elder Guardians, on Fabric for 1.20.2.
What it does
Trident shards drop from slain Elder Guardians and are used to craft tridents: three shards are combined with a prismarine shard in the crafting table, with the prismarine shard placed bottom-left and the shards in the three top-right slots. Collecting the first shard adds the recipe to the recipe book automatically. The mod is archived, is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and runs on client and server.
Key features
Shard drops from Elder Guardians
Elder Guardians drop trident shards when they are slain, giving players a source for the material.
Trident crafting recipe
Three shards and a prismarine shard form tridents in a fixed crafting table layout.
Automatic recipe book entry
The trident recipe is added to the recipe book as soon as the first shard is collected.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Prismarine Shard Repairs Trident is a Fabric mod for 1.20.1 with a server-side only environment, released under the MIT License and not open source. Tritastic is an open source Fabric mod under the MIT License for 1.21.6 – 1.21.11, running on client and server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [ARCHIVED] Trident Shards | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.20.2 | Client and server | 2023-07-09 |
| Prismarine Shard Repairs Trident | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2025-12-10 |
| Tritastic | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-02-13 |
Questions
Does Trident Shards need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Trident Shards support?
In the catalog
[ARCHIVED] Trident Shards is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,894 Equipment mods for Fabric. 12,076 mods support Minecraft 1.20.2.
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What the author says
Literally just adds trident shards. You need 3 to craft a trident, and each slain Elder Guardian drops 1. Simply place a prismarine shard in the bottom-left and middle, with trident shards in the remaining 3 top-right crafting table slots. Note that you will unlock the recipe in your recipe book automatically upon…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/trident-shards
- Owner
- Rebel459
- Published
- 2023-07-09
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-07-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
