Sword

Sword

Type	Combat
Durability	Wooden: 60 Golden: 33 Stone: 132 Iron: 251 Diamond: 1562
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

Swords are melee weapons that are mainly used to deal damage to mobs and/or players.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Damaged Matching Sword		The durability of the two swords is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Mobs

Main article: Drops § Equipped items

Some monsters can spawn with a sword, and have a 8.5% (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) chance of dropping them upon death by player: Zombies can drop iron swords, zombie pigmen can drop golden swords, and wither skeletons can drop stone swords. It will usually be badly damaged, and may be enchanted.

A vex wields an iron sword which normally has a 0% chance of dropping, because their main hand's HandDropChances is 0. However, this chance increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting. It is never damaged or enchanted.

Trading

Weapon Smith villagers sell enchanted iron swords for 9–10 emeralds as one of their second tier trades, and enchanted diamond swords for 12–15 emeralds as one of their third tier trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.

Natural generation

Iron swords can be found in 26.0% of village blacksmith chests and 12.2% of stronghold altar chests in groups of 1.

Golden swords can be found in 19.2% of nether fortress chests in groups of 1.

Enchanted iron swords can be found in 13.4% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Enchanted diamond swords can be found in 13.4% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Usage

Attacking

Pressing attack while holding a sword will increase your damage to both mobs and players. Upon damaging a mob or player, the sword's durability will decrease by 1.

Attacking a boat or a minecart with a sword will instantly destroy it and will not decrease the sword's durability.

Sweep attack

If the attack recharge meter is full, and the player is standing or moving no faster than walking speed, the sword will perform a "sweep" attack which can hit nearby enemies. Enemies near the hit enemy will be knocked back and damaged by 1 () from the slashing attack. The Sweeping Edge enchantment will increase the damage dealt by 50% of the normal hit damage for level I, 67% for level II, and 75% for level III. The amount of knockback is 80% that of the knockback due to Knockback I, and does not benefit from that enchantment. All enemies within 1 block horizontally and 0.25 blocks vertically of any part of the attacked mob and within 3 blocks of the player will be knocked back.

Damage

Java Edition

Swords have an attack speed of 1.6 and take 0.625 seconds to recover.

Material	Wooden	Gold	Stone	Iron	Diamond
Attack damage	4 ()	4 ()	5 ()	6 ()	7 ()
Damage/Second (DPS)	6.4	6.4	8	9.6	11.2
Lifetime damage inflicted	240 ( × 120)	132 ( × 66)	660 ( × 330)	1506 ( × 753)	10934 ( × 5467)

Console and Pocket editions

In the Console and Pocket editions, swords have no attack cooldown and do the following damage:

Material	Wooden	Gold	Stone	Iron	Diamond
Attack Damage	5 ()	5 ()	6 ()	7 ()	8 ()
Lifetime damage inflicted	300 ( × 150)	165 ( × 82.5)	792 ( × 396)	1757 ( × 878.5)	12496 ( × 6248)

Sword breaking times

Main article: Breaking

A sword can also be used to destroy certain blocks more quickly than with fists. Using a sword to destroy any block that doesn't break instantly decreases its durability by 2.

The following table shows the time it takes to break blocks on which swords have any effect. Colors indicate what will be dropped:

• White: an original block.
• Blue: block's normal drop (e.g. seeds, sapling, apple).
• Red: nothing.

Block	Fists	Sword	Proper/fastest tool
Cobweb	20 s	0.4 s		0.4 s
Jack o'Lantern	1.5 s	1 s		0.125 – 0.75 s
Melon	1.5 s	1 s		0.125 – 0.75 s
Pumpkin	1.5s	1 s		0.125 – 0.75 s
Cocoa	0.3s	0.2s		0.025 – 0.15 s
Leaves	0.3 s	0.2 s		0.02s
Vines	0.3 s	0.2 s		0.025 – 0.15 s
				0.02 s

Enchantments

Swords can receive the following enchantments:

• Fire Aspect
• Looting
• Unbreaking
• Sharpness
• Smite
• Bane of Arthropods
• Knockback
• Mending
• Curse of Vanishing
• Sweeping Edge

Fuel

Wooden swords can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per sword.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget	Iron Sword or Golden Sword + Any fuel

Data values

ID

Item	ID Name	Numerical ID
Wooden Sword	wooden_sword	268
Stone Sword	stone_sword	272
Iron Sword	iron_sword	267
Diamond Sword	diamond_sword	276
Golden Sword	golden_sword	283

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Pocket	Nintendo
	Time to Strike!	Use planks and sticks to make a sword	Pick up any type of sword from a crafting table output.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10G	Bronze
	Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	30G	Bronze

History

Indev
0.31			January 29, 2010		Added craftable swords.
Alpha
1.2.0					Zombie pigmen added, holding golden swords.
Beta
1.2					Swords, like all tools, have more durability.
1.5					All melee attacks, including fists, did 1 () more damage, making the stone sword arguably nearly as effective as the iron one as it kills most mobs in the same number of hits. If the player combines swordplay with archery, the iron sword's extra damage will save some arrows and closely matches performance with the diamond sword.
1.7.3					All melee attacks no longer do an extra 1 () of damage.
1.8					Added the ability to block, giving the player more options in combat.
					Swords no longer inflict more damage than bows.
Official release
1.0.0			Beta 1.9-pre3		Swords have been nerfed to make way for enchanting. A diamond sword now deals 7 () damage instead of 10 ().
					Iron swords are now found in the new stronghold altar chests.
			Beta 1.9-pre4		Swords can now be enchanted in the enchantment table.
1.1					Iron swords are now found in village blacksmith chests.
1.2.1			12w06a		One has a rare chance to obtain iron swords by killing zombies and golden swords from zombie pigmen from the addition of rare drops. These swords have a 20% chance of being enchanted.
1.3.1			12w18a		Wooden swords can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
			12w21a		Blacksmith villagers now sell diamond swords for 12–13 emeralds, and iron swords for 7–10 emeralds.
					With the trading implementation, you could sell renewable items such as wheat to buy a diamond sword. This made all swords renewable.
1.4.2			12w32a		Zombies may sometimes wield iron swords, dealing extra damage.
			12w34a		If you have dyed leather armor equipped and selected a sword of any kind, it will appear the color of the dye applied to the armor, when switching to second or third person view.
			12w36a		Wither skeletons added, holding stone swords.
1.4.6			12w49a		You can apply Unbreaking to a sword with an enchanted book.
1.6.1			13w18a		Golden swords are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
			13w25b		In Creative mode, swords no longer break blocks, and no sound will play when they're hit with one.
1.6.2					Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1 ()), swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1 () more damage than before.
1.8			14w02a		Weapon smith villagers now sell enchanted diamond swords for 12–15 emeralds, and iron swords for 9–10 emeralds. Unenchanted swords are no longer sold.
1.9			15w31a		Enchanted iron and diamond swords can now be found in end city ship chests.
			15w33c		Swords no longer block attacks. Instead, shields are used.
			15w34b		Swords now use the attack speed attribute. The attack speed of a sword is 1.25 or 0.8 seconds.
			15w34c		Swords now do one less damage and have an attack speed of 1.45, or 0.69 seconds.
					Swords can now do a sweep attack when moving at walking speed or slower, which will knock back mobs near the one hit. The attack speed meter must be filled for it to work.
			15w37a		Swords now have an attack speed of 1.6, or 0.63 seconds.
			15w43a		Decreased average yield of golden swords in nether fortress chests.
			15w49a		Sweep attack now does 1 () damage to affected mobs.
1.11.1			16w50a		Golden and iron swords now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets.
					Added sweeping edge enchantment.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added stone swords.
0.3.0					Added wooden swords.
0.3.2					Added diamond, iron and gold swords.
0.11.0			build 11		Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond swords are now available in the creative inventory.
			build 12		Removed wooden, stone, golden, and diamond swords from creative.
			build 13		All swords are available in creative mode again.
0.12.1			build 1		In Creative mode, swords no longer break blocks, and no sound will play when they're hit with one.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Iron and golden swords are now smeltable.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added swords (all five types).
TU5					Added the ability to block, giving the player more options in combat.
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Iron and golden swords are now smeltable.

Issues

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Trivia

• The sword's texture came from Notch's abandoned RPG, Legend of the Chambered. The iron sword's texture was created first, as it was from the game, and the other swords followed.
• If a sword is enchanted with Silk Touch, either using Creative or commands, it can collect cobwebs rather than getting the string drop. This is due to the sword being classified as the proper tool for cobwebs.

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