Swords

Swords
Durabilities:	Wooden: 60 Stone: 132 Iron: 251 Golden: 30 Diamond: 1562
Stackable:	No
Identifiers:	wooden_sword stone_sword iron_sword golden_sword diamond_sword

Swords in Mine Blocks are available in 5 different types: wooden, stone, iron, golden, and diamond - each of which have different durability and damage. To use a sword, simply click in the direction of a mob (in reach). The mob will take damage if hit and the sword will have increased damage.

Obtaining

Natural Generation

A stone sword can be found in 21.8% of loot chests with 50-100 damage to durability.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Recipe	Description
Sword	A Stick or Bamboo and two Wooden Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond		Put a stick or bamboo in the bottom center cell of the crafting grid, then put two wooden planks, or cobblestone, or iron ingots, or gold ingots, or diamonds in the two cells above the stick, one per cell if you are making one sword.

Repairing

Two swords of the same material can be combined in the crafting grid to combine their durability.

This can also be done through use of the anvil, to preserve enchantments.

Anvil - Repair & Rename

Usage

Attacking

The sword can be used to attack mobs or entities by left-clicking with the cursor on them.

Damage

The base damage is used to calculate the total damage considering potion effects, enchantments, and making a critical hit. However, the damage dealt is always rounded down, so for an unenchanted sword hit which is not critical the damage dealt would be the base damage rounded down.

The durability (amount of uses until the tool breaks) for swords is calculated just like the rest of the tools.

Type	Durability (uses)	Base Damage
Wooden	60	3 ()
Stone	132	4 ()
Iron	251	5.5 ( × 2.75)
Golden	30	4.5 ( × 2.25)
Diamond	1562	7 ()

Mining

Swords can be used to break lemon blocks and cobwebs more quickly.

Enchanting

Swords can be enchanted directly through the enchantment table.

Enchantments applicable to swords include:

• Fire Aspect
• Knockback
• Looting
• Bane of Arthropods
• Smite
• Sharpness
• Unbreaking

Fuel

Wooden swords can be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting up to 3 items.

Smelting

Both iron and gold swords can be smelted, giving one nugget.

History

Version	Date	Changes
1.26.0	Mar 28, 2014	When holding a sword in creative, blocks have normal breaking speeds
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Pet dogs can no longer be punched or hit with swords
1.29.0	Sep 27, 2019	Wooden and stone sword base damage reduced by 1; iron by .5; and gold increased by .5

See Also

• Tools
• Axes
• Combat