Golden Sword

Golden Sword

Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 4HP BE: 5HP
Attack speed‌	1.6 (0.625 seconds)
Durability	JE: 32 BE: 33
Enchantability	22
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A golden sword is a variant of sword crafted from gold ingots. It is the seventh-highest tier of sword, dealing the same damage as a wooden sword but having less durability. It is often used by piglins and zombified piglins, and found in various Nether loot chests. It can be admired by piglins, and has high enchantability.

Obtaining

Mob Loot

Piglins and zombified piglins have an 8.5% chance of dropping it when naturally held. The dropped sword has a random durability. Each level of Looting used to kill the piglin increases the drop chance by 1%.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
	Bastion Remnant	Bridge chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }
		Generic chest	1	9.8% { "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09750000000000003, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
	Nether Fortress	Chest	1	19% { "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1903699481480795, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
[A]	Ruined Portal	Chest	1	20.5% { "item": "Enchanted Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
	Bastion Remnant	Bridge chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }
		Generic chest	1	9.8% { "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09750000000000003, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }
	Nether Fortress	Chest	1	19% { "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1903699481480795, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
[A]	Ruined Portal	Chest	1	20.5% { "item": "Enchanted Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot + Stick

Usage

Breaking

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 by hand decreases its durability by 2; this includes bamboo, despite that the sword is the fastest tool for breaking it.^[1]

If a sword is enchanted with Silk Touch, either using Creative or commands, cobwebs hit by the sword drop the cobwebs themselves instead of the usual string, because a sword is classified as the proper tool for cobwebs.

Creative mode

In Creative mode, swords are unable to break blocks. However, they can still break placed entities such as minecarts, paintings, item frames,‌ and armor stands.^[2][3]

Attacking

A golden sword is used to deal damage to mobs and entities by attacking them. Golden swords sword have 4HP base damage in Java Edition and 5HP base damage in Bedrock Edition, and can be enchanted to deal more damage.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Damaged		The durability of the two swords is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
2x Damaged Golden Sword		The durability of the two swords is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Two golden swords can be combined in an anvil. This preserves all enchantments on the sword, unlike using a crafting table or grindstone.

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged  + Gold Ingot	Golden Sword

A sword can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the sword's maximum durability, rounded down. Two swords of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the sword's enchantments.

Enchantments

A golden sword can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Sharpness[note 1]	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Smite[note 1]	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods[note 1]	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Looting	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the sword.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Knockback	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Fire Aspect	Ignites any targets hit by the sword. In Bedrock Edition, it also lights unlit candles, campfires, and blocks of TNT when used.	II	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Sweeping Edge‌	Increases the sweeping damage dealt.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the sword when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The sword vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Gold Nugget	+ Any fuel	0.1

Distracting piglins

Piglins are attracted to golden swords, run toward any golden swords on the ground and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory slot. During this time, the piglin does not attack nearby players, even if they are not wearing gold armor.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Golden Sword	golden_sword	Item	item.minecraft.golden_sword

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Golden Sword	golden_sword	322	Item	item.golden_sword.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver
		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.	30	Bronze
		Time to Strike!	Use planks and sticks to make a sword.	Pick up any type of sword from a crafting table output.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag: 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 Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold The player must not be wearing any gold armor. Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.

Video

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100129-2332				Added golden swords.
			20100131				Golden swords now have durability which is 33 points.
							Golden swords now cost 1 durability per hit, and 2 points per block broken.
							Now golden swords deal 4HP damage.
20100206-2034							The texture of gold swords has been slightly changed.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0			release				Zombie pigmen now hold golden swords.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Swords, like all tools, now have more durability.
							Prior to this, golden swords had 32 durability.
1.5							The damages of all swords have increased by 1, due to the player's barehand damage increasing from 1HP to 2HP. As a result, golden swords now dealt 5HP.
1.8			Pre-release				Added the ability to block with a sword.
							Swords deflect 50% of incoming melee damage, non-magical projectiles like arrows and explosion damage, and a bit of 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 when blocking with a sword.
							As barehand damage has been reduced from 2HP to 1HP, the damages of golden swords has been reduced to its pre-Beta 1.5 value.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Sword damage has been reduced to make way for enchanting, but golden swords still deal 4HP damage.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Swords can now be enchanted in the enchantment table.
1.2.1			12w06a				The player now has a rare chance of obtaining golden swords from zombie pigmen from the addition of rare drops. These golden swords have a 20% chance of being enchanted.
1.3.1			12w21a				With the trading implementation, renewable items such as wheat can now be sold to buy a diamond sword. This has now made all swords renewable.
			12w34a				If a player has dyed leather armor equipped and selected a sword of any kind, it appears in the color of the dye applied to the armor, when switching to second or third person view.
1.4.6			12w49a				Unbreaking can now be applied to a sword with an enchanted book.
1.6.1			13w18a				Golden swords are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), golden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1HP more damage than before.
			13w25b				In Creative mode, swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.[4]
1.8			14w25a				Blocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.[5]
			14w30a				Sword holding position have been tweaked, and the blocking animation has changed. Blocking while mining was made impossible.
1.9			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				Nerfed swords, they now do 1HP 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 knock back mobs near the one hit. The attack speed meter must be filled for it to work.
			15w36a				Each Sharpness level now adds 1HP damage to the base damage at level I and an additional 0.5HP × 0.25 for each additional level, down from a flat 1.25HP × 0.625 per level.
			15w37a				Swords now have an attack speed of 1.6, or 0.6 seconds.
			15w43a				The average yield of golden swords in nether fortress chests has been decreased.
			15w49a				Sweep attack now does 1HP damage to affected mobs and players.
1.11.1			16w50a				Golden swords now smelt down into golden nuggets.
							Added Sweeping Edge enchantment.
1.13			18w10a				Swords can now generate in buried treasure chests.
September 10, 2018							Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of updated sword textures.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of golden swords has been changed.
							Swords now break bamboo instantly.
1.16			20w16a				Golden swords now generate in bastion remnants chests.
							Golden swords now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The attack speed for all swords has been increased to 3.
							The base damage is now 2HP, meaning that all swords now do 1HP more damage than before}.
							The attack reach of swords has been increased to 3.5 blocks.
2							The attack speed of all swords has been decreased to 2.5.
3							The attack speed of all swords has been changed from 2.5 back to 3.0.
							The attack key can now again be held down to automatically attack when the attack meter is full.
							Attacks now happen only when the sword is at 120% charge, slower than if attacks were timed.
4							Sword can now perform critical, knockback (sprint) hits on 100% charge.
							The attack reach of all weapons was decreased by 0.5 block. Sword now have a 3 blocks reach.
							The 200% attack now gives a bonus reach of 1 block.
6							All weapons' attack reach have been buffed by 0.5 block.
							200% attacks have been removed.
							Swords now always do sweep attack, even in the air.
							The cooldown for missed hit is a 4-tick cooldown instead of using the attack speed attribute.
7c							All weapons' attack reach have been nerfed by 0.5 block. The sword's attack reach is now 3 blocks again.
							200% attacks have been re-added.
							Swords no longer sweep without Sweeping Edge and 200% charge again.
8b							Enchantment bonus attack damage are now included in the base damage when calculating critical hits (they were excluded before). Due to this change, enchanted swords critical attacks are now way more powerful (especially with high enchantments)
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added golden swords. They actually function as a weapon despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.2							Golden swords can now be crafted with gold ingots and sticks.
v0.11.0			build 11				Golden swords are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.11.0			build 12				Golden swords have been removed from creative.
v0.11.0			build 13				Golden swords are available in creative mode again.
v0.12.1			build 1				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1HP more damage than before.
							In creative mode, swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.
							Golden swords can now be found in nether fortress chests.
							Golden swords are now rarely dropped by zombie pigmen.
			build 11				Blocks can no longer be broken while holding a sword in Creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Golden swords can now be smelted down into golden nuggets.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of golden swords has been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Golden swords are now sometimes dropped by piglins that spawn holding a golden sword.
			beta 1.16.0.57				Golden swords now generate in bastion remnant chests.
							Golden swords now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.20.20				Swords now break bamboo instantly.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added golden swords.
TU5							The ability to block with swords has been added.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), golden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1HP more damage than before.
							In Creative mode, swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.
							Golden swords are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Blocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.
TU36	CU25	1.28	1.28	1.28	Patch 7		The attack damage of golden swords is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the sword has less than 3 enchantments.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Golden swords can now be smelted into golden nuggets.
			1.90				The texture of golden swords has been changed.
			1.91				The ability to block with swords has been removed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added golden swords.
							Swords cannot block attacks.

Data history

Issues

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Gallery

Renders

• 
  Enchanted Golden Sword

See also

• Stone Sword
• Iron Sword

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