Stone Sword

Stone Sword

Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 5HP BE: 6HP
Attack speed‌	1.6 (0.625 seconds)
Durability	JE: 130 BE: 131
Enchantability	5
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A stone sword is variant of sword that can be crafted from cobblestone, blackstone, or cobbled deepslate. It is the fifth-highest tier of sword, dealing the same damage as a copper sword but having less durability.

Obtaining

Crafting

Stone swords are crafted with a stick and any combination of two cobblestone, blackstone, or cobbled deepslate (i.e. 2 cobblestone, or 1 blackstone + 1 cobbled deepslate, et cetera).

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any stone-tier block + Stick		Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably.

Mob loot

Wither skeletons can spawn with a stone 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. The dropped sword is usually badly damaged.

Usage

Attacking

Pressing attack while holding an stone sword inflicts damage on both mobs and other players. Upon damaging a mob or player, the stone sword's durability decreases by 1.

Attacking a boat or a minecart with an stone sword instantly destroys it ‌, without decreasing the sword's durability.

In Java Edition, stone swords deal 5HP base damage, have an attack speed of 1.6 and take 12 game ticks (0.6 seconds) to recover.

In Bedrock Edition, stone swords have no attack cooldown or sweep attack, and deal 6HP base damage.

The damage that an stone sword enchanted with Sharpness V does on a non-critical hit is 8 in Java Edition and 12.25 in Bedrock Edition.

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]

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Damaged		The durability of the two swords is added together, plus extra 6 points of durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
2x Damaged Stone Sword		The durability of the two swords is added together, plus extra 6 points of durability.

Two stone 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  + Cobblestone or Blackstone	Stone Sword

A stone sword can be repaired in an anvil by using cobblestone, blackstone or cobbled deepslate as the 2nd ingredient. Each material restores 25% of the sword's maximum durability, rounded down. Using an anvil to repair leaves all of the sword's enchantments on it.

Enchantments

A stone 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

Sounds

Stone swords make a sound when used to attack an entity. The sound depends on how the attack is landed. All sounds are the same as every other sword.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Stone Sword	stone_sword	Item	item.minecraft.stone_sword

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Stone Sword	stone_sword	312	Item	item.stone_sword.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		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

Video

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100128-2200				Added stone swords.
							Stone swords cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house.
			20100129-1447				Stone swords can now be crafted.
			20100131				Stone swords now have durability which is 65 points.
							Stone swords now cost 1 durability per hit, and 2 points per block broken.
							Now stone swords deal 8HP damage.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Stone swords, like all tools, now have more durability.
							Prior, stone swords had 64 durability.
1.5							Increased the damage of stone swords by 1, due to the player's barehand damage increasing from 1HP to 2HP.
							As a result, stone swords now dealt 7HP.
1.8			Pre-release				Added the ability to block with a stone sword, giving the player more options in combat.
							Stone swords deflect 50% of incoming melee damage, non-magical projectiles like arrows and explosion damage, and a bit of knockback.
							The stone 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 stone sword.
							Since barehand damage was reduced from 2HP to 1HP, reduced the damage of the stone sword to its pre–Beta 1.5 values.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Reduced stone sword damage to ensure enchanting is balanced correctly. A stone sword's damage has been reduced from 6HP to 5HP
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Stone swords can now be enchanted in the enchantment table.
1.4.2			12w34a				If a player has dyed leather armor equipped and selected a stone sword, the stone sword appears in the color of the dye applied to the armor when switching to second or third person view.
			12w36a				Added wither skeletons, which hold stone swords.
1.6.1			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), stone swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
			13w25b				In Creative mode, stone 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				Tweaked the stone sword holding position, and changed the blocking animation. Made it impossible to block with a stone sword while mining.
1.9			15w33c				Stone swords no longer block attacks. Instead, shields are used.
			15w34b				Stone swords now use the attack speed attribute. The attack speed of a stone sword is 1.25 or 0.8 seconds.
			15w34c				Nerfed stone swords, they now do 1HP less damage and have an attack speed of 1.45, or 0.69 seconds.
							Stone 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				Sharpness 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				Stone swords now have an attack speed of 1.6, or 0.6 seconds.
			15w49a				Sweep attack now does 1HP damage to affected mobs and players.
1.11.1			16w50a				Added Sweeping Edge enchantment.
September 10, 2018							Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of the updated stone sword texture.
1.14			18w43a				Changed the texture of stone swords.
							Stone swords now break bamboo instantly.
1.16			20w15a				Stone swords can now be crafted using blackstone.
1.17			21w08a				Stone swords can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The attack speed for stone swords has been increased to 3.
							The base damage is now 2HP, meaning that stone swords now do 1HP more damage than before.
							The attack reach of stone swords has been increased to 3.5 blocks.
2							Decreased the attack speed of stone swords from 3.0 to 2.5.
3							Reverted the attack speed of stone swords back to 3.0.
4							Stone swords can now perform critical, knockback (sprint) hits on 100% charge.
							The attack reach of all weapons, including stone swords, was decreased by 0.5 block. Stone swords now have a 3 blocks reach.
5							Weapons have been nerfed. Stone swords now do 4HP damage instead of the former 5HP.
6							All weapons' attack reach have been buffed by 0.5 block.
							Stone swords now always do sweep attack, even in the air.
7c							All weapons' attack reach have been nerfed by 0.5 block. The stone sword's attack reach is now 3 blocks again.
							Stone swords no longer sweep without Sweeping Edge and 200% charge.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added stone swords.
v0.3.0							Survival players no longer start out with an infinite durability stone sword in the inventory.
v0.4.0							Iron swords have replaced stone swords in the Creative inventory.
v0.11.0			build 11				Stone swords are now available in the Creative inventory.
v0.12.1			build 1				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), stone swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
							In Creative mode, stone swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.
							Stone swords are now rarely dropped by wither skeletons.
			build 11				Blocks can no longer be broken while holding a sword in Creative mode.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of stone swords have been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Stone swords can now be crafted using blackstone.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.20.20				Stone 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 stone swords.
TU5							Added the ability to block with a stone sword, giving the player more options in combat.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), stone swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
							In Creative mode, stone swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.
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 stone swords is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the sword has less than 3 enchantments.
			1.90				The texture of stone swords have been changed.
			1.91				Removed the ability to block with a stone sword.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added stone swords.
							Stone swords cannot block attacks.

Data history

Issues

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Trivia

• The sword's traditional 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, including stone swords, followed.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  Enchanted Stone Sword

In other media

• 
  Stone sword in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.

See also

• Wooden Sword
• Iron Sword
• Wither Skeleton

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