Common
DurabilityJava Edition
Golden: 32
Wood: 59
Stone: 131
Iron: 250
Diamond: 1561
Netherite: 2031
Bedrock Edition
Golden: 33
Wood: 60
Stone: 132
Iron: 251
Diamond: 1562
Netherite: 2032
Netherite: No
All others: Yes
No
A sword is a melee weapon that is mainly used to damage entities and for mining cobwebs or bamboo. A sword is made from one of six materials, in order of increasing quality and expense: wood, gold, stone, iron, diamond and netherite.
Contents
- 1 Obtaining
- 1.1 Crafting
- 1.2 Upgrading
- 1.3 Repairing
- 1.3.1 Grinding
- 1.3.2 Unit repair
- 1.4 Mob loot
- 1.5 Trading
- 1.6 Chest loot
- 2 Usage
- 2.1 Attacking
- 2.1.1 Sweep attack
- 2.2 Damage
- 2.2.1 Java Edition
- 2.2.2 Bedrock Edition
- 2.3 Sword breaking times
- 2.3.1 Safety around constructions
- 2.4 Enchantments
- 2.5 Fuel
- 2.6 Smelting ingredient
- 2.7 Piglins
- 2.1 Attacking
- 3 Sounds
- 4 Data values
- 4.1 ID
- 5 Achievements
- 6 Advancements
- 7 History
- 7.1 Blocking
- 7.2 Knockback
- 7.3 Historical changes per version
- 8 Trivia
- 9 Gallery
- 9.1 Enchanted swords
- 10 References
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
Ingredients Crafting recipe Description Any PlanksorIron Ingotor
Gold Ingotor
Diamond+
Stick
Stick
Blackstoneor
Cobbled Deepslate+
Stick
Example: Two wooden swords, each with remaining durability of 20, combine into a wooden sword having 43 durability [20 + 20 + 5% of 60].
Upgrading[]
Ingredients Smithing recipe Diamond Sword +Netherite Ingot
Repairing[]
Grinding[]
Ingredients Grinding recipe Description 2x Damaged Wooden Sword or2x Damaged Stone Sword or
2x Damaged Iron Sword or
2x Damaged Golden Sword or
2x Damaged Diamond Sword or
2x Damaged Netherite Sword
Unit repair[]
A sword can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the sword's maximum durability, rounded down.
Mob loot[]
Some mobs can spawn with a sword and have an 8.5% chance of dropping them upon death caused by player. This chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, up to a maximum of 11.5% with Looting III. Zombies and husks can drop iron swords, zombified piglins and piglins can drop golden swords, and wither skeletons can drop stone swords. The dropped sword is usually badly damaged and may be enchanted. Stone swords dropped by wither skeletons are never enchanted.
A vex wields an iron sword that 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[Java Edition only] and may be enchanted.
In Bedrock Edition, pillagers and vindicators that spawn from raids have a 4.1% chance [5.12% chance on hard mode] of dropping a damaged iron sword. This sword has a 50% chance of being enchanted.
Trading[]
The diamond sword trade of a weaponsmith.
In Bedrock Edition, apprentice-level weaponsmith villagers sell enchanted iron swords for at least 7-21 emeralds, and master-level weaponsmiths sell enchanted diamond swords for at least 13-27 emeralds.
In Java Edition, novice-level weaponsmith villagers have a 23 chance of selling an enchanted iron sword for at least 7-22 emeralds. Master-level weaponsmiths offer to sell an enchanted diamond sword for at least 1127 emeralds.
The enchantments of the swords offered by villagers are the same as the ones obtained from an enchantment table at levels 519.
Chest loot[]
Item Structure Container Quantity Chance Java Edition Iron Sword Buried treasure Chest 1 75% Stronghold Altarchest 1 12.1% Village Weaponsmith'schest 1 25.6% Enchanted Iron Sword[A] End city Chest 1 13.3% Damaged Enchanted Iron Sword[B][C] Bastion remnant Genericchest 1 19% Golden Sword Bastion remnant Bridgechest 1 11.2% Genericchest 1 9.8% Nether fortress Chest 1 19% Enchanted Golden Sword[B] Ruined portal Chest 1 20.5% Diamond Sword Bastion remnant Treasurechest 1 18.7% Enchanted Diamond Sword[A] End city Chest 1 13.3% Damaged Enchanted Diamond Sword[B][D] Bastion remnant Treasurechest 1 18.7% Java Edition 1.18[upcoming] Iron Sword Stronghold Altarchest 1 12% Bedrock Edition Iron Sword Stronghold Altarchest 1 11.8% Village Weaponsmith'schest 1 25.6% Enchanted Iron Sword[A] End city Chest 1 13.3% Damaged Enchanted Iron Sword[B][C] Bastion remnant Genericchest 1 19% Golden Sword Bastion remnant Bridgechest 1 11.2% Genericchest 1 9.8% Nether fortress Chest 1 19% Enchanted Golden Sword[B] Ruined portal Chest 1 20.5% Diamond Sword Bastion remnant Treasurechest 1 18.7% Enchanted Diamond Sword[A] End city Chest 1 13.3% Damaged Enchanted Diamond Sword[B][D] Bastion remnant Treasurechest 1 18.7%- a b c d Enchantment probabilities are the same as a level-20 to level-39 enchantment would be on an enchantment table that had no cap at level 30, and that was able to apply treasure enchantments [except Soul Speed], and where the chance of multiple enchantments is not reduced.
- a b c d e f All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments [except Soul Speed], and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.
- a b The item has between 10% and 90% of its total durability.
- a b The item has between 80% and 100% of its total durability.
Usage[]
Attacking[]
Pressing attack while holding a sword inflicts damage on both mobs and other players. Upon damaging a mob or player, the sword's durability decreases by 1.
Attacking a boat or a minecart with a sword instantly destroys it, without decreasing the sword's durability.
Sweep attack[]
If the attack recharge meter is 84.8% or above, and the player is standing or moving no faster than walking speed, the sword performs a "sweeping" attack that can hit nearby enemies. Enemies near the hit enemy are knocked back and damaged by 1
Damage[]
Java Edition[]
Swords have an attack speed of 1.6 and take 0.625 seconds to recover. This can cause some players to find that mobs have more health if they attack the mob without cooling down their sword.
Material Wooden Gold Stone Iron Diamond Netherite Attack Damage 4- The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Durability × Damage per hit = Lifetime damage minimum. It ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes the sword is at maximum charge
Bedrock Edition[]
In Bedrock Edition, swords have no attack cooldown or sweep attack and do the following, stronger damage:
Material Wooden Gold Stone Iron Diamond Netherite Attack Damage 5- The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Durability × Damage per hit = Lifetime damage minimum. It excludes enchantments and critical hits
The most amount of damage that a sword enchanted with Sharpness V can do is 11 in Java Edition and 15.25 in Bedrock Edition, without critical hits.
Sword breaking times[]
A sword can also be used to destroy certain blocks 50% quicker, sometimes much quicker than with fists. Using a sword to destroy any block that doesn't break instantly decreases its durability by 2.
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.
The following table shows the time it takes to break blocks on which swords have any effect. Colors indicate what gets dropped:
- White: an original block.
- Blue: block's normal drop [e.g. seeds, sapling, apple].
- Red: nothing.
Swords can also be used for instant breaking of bamboo.[Java Edition only]
Safety around constructions[]
In Creative mode, swords are unable to break blocks. However, care must still be taken around minecarts, paintings, item frames and armor stands; these are entities, thus can be broken with swords in Creative.[1][2]
Enchantments[]
Swords can receive, or be found in an End City with the following enchantments:
Name Max Level Method Weight Fire Aspect II 2 Looting III 2 Unbreaking III 5 Sharpness[note 1] V 10 Smite[note 1] V 5 Bane of Arthropods[note 1] V 5 Knockback II 5 Mending I 2 Curse of Vanishing I 1 Sweeping Edge[JE only] III 2- a b c Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.
Fuel[]
Wooden swords can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per sword.
Smelting ingredient[]
Name Ingredients Smelting recipe Iron NuggetorGold Nugget Iron Swordor
Golden Sword+
Any fuel
0.1
Piglins[]
Piglins are attracted to golden swords and run toward any golden swords on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.
Sounds[]
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuationdistance//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Critical_attack1.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Critical_attack2.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Critical_attack3.oggCritical attack??entity.player.attack.crit?0.7?16 //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Knockback_attack1.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Knockback_attack2.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Knockback_attack3.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Knockback_attack4.oggKnockback attack??entity.player.attack.knockback?0.7?16 //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Weak_attack1.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Weak_attack2.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Weak_attack3.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Weak_attack4.oggWeak attack??entity.player.attack.nodamage?0.7?16 //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Strong_attack1.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Strong_attack2.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Strong_attack3.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Strong_attack4.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Strong_attack5.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Strong_attack6.oggStrong attack??entity.player.attack.strong?1, 2, 3, 4 = 0.6; 5, 6 = 0.7?16 //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack1.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack2.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack3.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack4.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack5.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack6.ogg//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Sweep_attack7.oggSweeping attack??entity.player.attack.sweep?0.7?16 //minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Random_break.oggItem breaks??entity.item.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break1.00.916
Data values[]
ID[]
Java Edition:
NameResource locationFormTranslation key Wooden Swordwooden_swordItemitem.minecraft.wooden_sword Stone Swordstone_swordItemitem.minecraft.stone_sword Iron Swordiron_swordItemitem.minecraft.iron_sword Diamond Sworddiamond_swordItemitem.minecraft.diamond_sword Golden Swordgolden_swordItemitem.minecraft.golden_sword Netherite Swordnetherite_swordItemitem.minecraft.netherite_swordBedrock Edition:
NameResource locationNumeric ID FormTranslation key Wooden Swordwooden_sword268Itemitem.wooden_sword.name Stone Swordstone_sword272Itemitem.stone_sword.name Iron Swordiron_sword267Itemitem.iron_sword.name Diamond Sworddiamond_sword276Itemitem.diamond_sword.name Golden Swordgolden_sword283Itemitem.golden_sword.name Netherite Swordnetherite_sword743Itemitem.netherite_sword.nameAchievements[]
Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements [if different] Gamerscore earned Trophy type [PS4] PS4 Other platforms Time to Strike!Use planks and sticks to make a sword.Pick up any type of sword from a crafting table output.10GBronze OverkillDeal 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.30GBronze Oooh, shiny!Distract a Piglin using gold.Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.30GSilverAdvancements[]
Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements [if different] Resource locationDistract Piglins with gold NetherGive a piglin one of these 24 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag, while not wearing any golden armor:
- Bell
- Block of Gold
- Block of Raw Gold
- Clock
- Enchanted Golden Apple
- Gilded Blackstone
- Glistering Melon Slice
- Gold Ingot
- Gold Ore
- Golden Apple
- Golden Axe
- Golden Boots
- Golden Carrot
- Golden Chestplate
- Golden Helmet
- Golden Hoe
- Golden Horse Armor
- Golden Leggings
- Golden Pickaxe
- Golden Shovel
- Golden Sword
- Light Weighted Pressure Plate
- Nether Gold Ore
- Deepslate Gold Ore
- Raw Gold
History[]
Blocking[]
The blocking animation using a sword before and after Java Edition 14w30a [from the Adventure to the Bountiful updates].
Previously, since the Adventure Update, all types of swords could be used to parry to block some forms of damage. If the player is blocking with a sword when attacked, the sword deflects 50% of incoming damage from melee, non-magical projectiles like arrows, and explosions, along with minimizing knockback. The sword is held in front of the player and its durability is not reduced by blocking. The player moves at a slower rate than sneaking if blocking with a sword. Sword blocks could be engaged and disengaged instantly, with no delay between the input and damage mitigation nor cooldown between lowering a block and raising a new one.
After the Combat Update, the sword blocking functionality was replaced by blocking with shields and to accommodate the dual wield system. Shields negates more damage and knockback than sword blocking from blockable attacks [they block 100% damage and knockback after Java Edition 1.11], but, unlike swords, they have a 0.25 second startup period before damage can be mitigated and can be temporarily disabled by attacks with an axe.
Knockback[]
The knockback dealt by swords used to be higher than while the players are using another melee items, like an axe or with the hands. This feature was removed in Java Edition 1.9 and is also no longer used in Bedrock Edition.
Historical changes per version[]
Java Edition Indev 0.3120091231-2Trivia[]
- 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.
- With the introduction of netherite swords, it is possible to one-hit kill undead mobs in the game [except withers and zombies/skeletons with random armor] using a sword with the Smite V enchantment, without the need to perform a critical hit [this was previously possible only with a Smite V stone, iron, or diamond axe].
- Plastic diamond and enchanted swords are official Minecraft merchandise.[3][4]
Gallery[]
Enchanted swords[]
References[]
- MC-27140
- MC-18463
- //shop.minecraft.net/products/minecraft-sword?_pos=1&_psq=sword&_ss=e&_v=1.0
- //shop.minecraft.net/products/minecraft-enchanted-purple-sword?_pos=4&_psq=sword&_ss=e&_v=1.0
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