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Axe and trident should have more weapon enchants through the anvil

The axe and trident should be able to be built as a proper weapon using the anvil.

Axes can already be enchanted with Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods, and are sold by Weapon Smiths, so they are obviously intended to be used as weapons.  However, they cannot be enchanted with Looting, Fire Aspect, or Knockback.  Personally, I can't consider it for weapon status without Looting.  Fire Aspect and Knockback are also weapon enchantments that should be usable by an axe.  The only weapon enchantment that doesn't make sense is Sweeping Edge so that one should not be available.

The trident can only be enchanted with its specialty enchantments, Mending,  Unbreaking, and Curse of Vanishing.  Looting and Knockback do not conflict with anything, and so should be available through the anvil at least.  Fire Aspect doesn't make sense for the trident, so it should not be available, and neither does Sweeping Edge.

As MacchuPicchu suggested, the most logical way of handling the other damage increasing enchantments would be to have sharpness available for the trident, but BoA and Smite should not.  (Although an argument could be made for Smite because of the Drowned.  A Smite enchanted trident would be a Drowned specialized weapon)  As such, Impaling should be treated like the other damage increasing enchantments and be mutually exclusive with Sharpness (and Smite?).

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    Excellent ideas all around. My take on the tridents is this: add Sharpness, but not Smite or Bane of Arthropods. That way, the Trident would have its own water-mobs-exclusive damage-increasing Impaling enchantment; Swords and Axes would have their two above-ground-mobs-exclusive damage-increasing enchantments, Smite and Bane of Arthropods; meanwhile, all three weapons would have access to the weaker but all-purpose damage-increasing Sharpness enchantment. That seems well-balanced to me.

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    Who said anything about sweeping edge being worthless?  I only said that it doesn't make sense for axes or tridents, because it doesn't.  It is an enchantment for the slicing weapon, the sword.

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    The trident should be just as strong above ground as it is under, for there is already a lack of weapons. Also it would be a nice alternative to swords.

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    With an anvil, we should have the choice for the Trident:
    Impaling or Power or Sharpness or Smite or Bane of Arthropods (mutually exclusive)

    Same for the sword:
    Impaling or Sharpness or Smite or Bane of Arthropods (mutually exclusive)

    Being able to found "1.13's impossible enchantements's items" in some rare chests (from donjons or so), examples:
    Axe/Trident/Bow/Hoe with Looting enchantment,
    Sword/Trident with Fortune enchantment,

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    Tridents do actually need sweeping edge. They currently lack the ability to properly deal with grouped enemies up close in any version of the game, & sweeping would fix that nicely.

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    To people advocating for Tridents (and Axes) to have Sweeping Edge... Tell me, how often do you see people with battle axes or pronged stab-weapons sweeping them sideways effectively in battle? Take your time, I'll wait.
    *Crickets chirping.*

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    @riptor werewolf, I know that's not effective in real life, but Minecraft isn't real, & the lack of sweeping edge holds tridents back from being a viable weapon.

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    HolscherHead Axes don't have sweeping edge and they're still a viable weapon.

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    Knockback especially should be an option for axes. Axes are designed to maximize damage per hit, which makes pushing your opponent back way more useful on them than swords.