Loyalty Tridents should create placeholder items.

I posted this to the Suggestions Subreddit, and someone mentioned I should post it here too.

Right now, if you throw a Trident with the Loyalty enchantment but, for whatever reason, manage to pick up an item, the trident will go into your inventory, or if your inventory is full, will hover around you until you have a space open to retrieve it.

This is a QoL fix that makes tridents more enjoyable to use. Throwing a trident if your underwater and then going to the surface for air means you will likely pick up some rotten flesh from other drowned you have killed or some kelp you accidentally broke while fighting said drowned, meaning you have to open your inventory, to fix it, while your under attack from drowned with tridents.

This placeholder item could just be the outline of the trident, that lets you only pick up the trident in that slot. If your throw your Trident into an area where it cant comeback with loyalty, the void for example, you can right click with the placeholder in your hand and it vanishes, allowing you to pick up items in that slot again. If you accidentally right click with the place holder in hand, don't worry as the trident will still comeback to you like normal but you might just pick up an item on accident.

This would also finally allow you to use use tridents in your off hand and allow it to come back to your off hand.

Nothing is more irritating than having to shuffle in your inventory while fighting Trident Drowned because you accidentally picked up some rotten flesh from another drowned you previously killed, and then dying because of it.

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July 09, 2019 15:52
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This is honestly a requirement for laggy conditions. When lag gets bad, it can take a solid 30 seconds to pick up a single item, so throwing a trident in a crowded server is basically just saying goodbye to a weapon for a few minutes.

July 13, 2020 04:55
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I think they're looking into the "trident is destroyed by the void" thing on Java with the combat test snapshots, so perhaps this may be a viable idea to go along with that. Also, the trident outline thing is a solid idea. I was thinking they could just make the slot have an invisible placeholder item in it that makes it look like an empty hand, but with the trident outline item, they could perhaps allow you to move it between slots while it was coming back to you. Moving the item might be a bit buggy though...
...Regardless! Solid idea! I hope they implement this in some way!

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Loyalty Tridents should create placeholder items.

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