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Tridents shouldn't so easily despawn

So I was happily playing with a trident I got, and I threw and missed the creeper. Well, killing the creeper took long enough for the trident to despawn, and I was sad because why would an item that's so relatively rare despawn so quickly. I couldn't have put loyalty on it yet, I didn't have that villager. I think rather than have a thrown trident despawn directly, it should pop off into an item form so you have an additional five minutes after the throw to retreive it.

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    Tridents launch by players doesn't despawn. You just have to search

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    Are you on Java edition? On Java edition, thrown tridents despawn after 60 seconds if not picked up, similarly to arrows. On Bedrock edition, thrown tridents to not despawn, allowing them to be exploited in fully afk trident killer mechanism for exp/raids.

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    Tridents thrown by players shouldn't despawn. It is very frustrating to loose your trident because you missed a mob and it despawns, especially since they are so hard to find.

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    Yes they despawn after 60 seconds! Considering how rare they are you shouldn't get punished for not finding it within one minute. 

    So many new players I've played it threw it somewhere and kept searching for it for minutes - obviously never finding it again. It's very frustrating & very questionable game design. It makes sense for arrows but again getting a trident is hard.

    On bedrock they never despawn so idk why this isn't in java. It should be.