Wooden Sword

Wooden Sword
Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 4HP; BE: 5HP
Attack speed‌	1.6 (0.625 seconds)
Durability	JE: 59; BE: 60
Enchantability	15
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

A wooden sword is an early-game weapon made from wood that does more damage than a bare fist. It is the sixth-highest tier of sword, dealing the same damage as a golden sword but having more durability. It can be used as fuel in a furnace, smoker, or blast furnace.

Obtaining

Wooden swords are crafted with two planks of any kind and one stick.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks + Stick

Usage

Attacking

Pressing attack while holding a wooden sword deals damage to the entity the player is looking at. This reduces the durability of the wooden sword by 1.

Damage

Java Edition

Wooden swords have an attack speed of 1.6 and take 12 game ticks (0.6 seconds) to recover.

Attack damage	Attack speed	Recovery time	DPS	Lifetime damage inflicted^{[note 1]}
4HP	1.6	12 game ticks (0.6 seconds)	6.4	236HP × 118

↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit. It ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes the sword is at maximum charge.

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, wooden swords have no attack cooldown or sweep attack, and deal the following damage:

Attack damage	Lifetime damage inflicted^{[note 1]}
5HP	300HP × 150

↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit. It ignores enchantments and critical hits

Breaking

A wooden sword can also be used to destroy some blocks quicker than with fists. All swords have the same mining speed, so the wooden sword is just as useful for breaking blocks as any other sword.

If an wooden sword is enchanted with Silk Touch, either using Creative or commands, it can be used to obtain a cobweb as an item by breaking it.

Repairing

Combining

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

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

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged + Any Planks	Wooden Sword

A wooden sword can be repaired in an anvil by adding wood planks of any kind, with each repair material restoring 25% the sword's maximum durability, rounded down. Two wooden swords can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the sword's enchantments.

Enchantments

The wooden sword can receive all the same enchantments as any other sword.

Fuel

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

Sounds

Wooden 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
Wooden Sword	`wooden_sword`	Item	`item.minecraft.wooden_sword`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Wooden Sword	`wooden_sword`	`308`	Item	`item.wooden_sword.name`

Achievements


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

This article is missing information about: when the recipes for crafting wooden swords with Nether wood types have been added to Bedrock Edition.

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Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100128-2200				Wooden swords made from wood have been added
							Wooden swords cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house.
							A wooden sword held by the player is now rendered to appear more 3D.
			20100129-1447				Wooden swords now can be crafted.
			20100131				Wooden swords now have 33 points of durability.
							Wooden swords now cost 1 durability per hit, and 2 points per block broken.
							Now wooden swords deal 4HP damage.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Wooden swords, like all tools, now have more durability.
1.2							Prior, wooden swords had 32 durability.
1.5							The damages of all wooden swords have increased by 1, due to the player's barehand damage increasing from 1HP to 2HP.
1.5							As a result, wooden and golden wooden swords now dealt 5HP
1.8			Pre-release				Added the ability to block with a wooden sword, giving the player more options in combat.
							Wooden swords deflect 50% of incoming melee damage, non-magical projectiles like arrows and explosion damage, and a bit of knockback.
							The wooden 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 wooden sword.
							As barehand damage has been reduced from 2HP to 1HP, the damages of all wooden swords have been reduced to their pre-Beta 1.5 values.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Wooden swords can now be enchanted in the enchanting table.
1.2.4			release				Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden swords.
1.3.1			12w18a				Wooden swords can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
1.3.1			12w34a				If a player has dyed leather armor equipped and selected a wooden sword, it appears in the color of the dye applied to the armor, when switching to second or third person view.
1.6.1			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), wooden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
1.6.1			13w25b				In Creative mode, wooden swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.^[1]
1.7.2			1.7.1				Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden swords.
1.8			14w25a				Blocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.^[2]
1.8			14w30a				Wooden sword holding position have been tweaked, and the blocking animation has changed. Blocking while mining was made impossible.
1.9			15w33c				Wooden swords no longer block attacks. Instead, shields are used.
			15w34b				Wooden swords now use the attack speed attribute. The attack speed of a wooden sword is 1.25 or 0.8 seconds.
			15w34c				Nerfed wooden swords, they now do 1HP less damage and have an attack speed of 1.45, or 0.69 seconds.
			15w34c				Wooden 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				Wooden 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 wooden sword texture.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of wooden swords has been changed.
1.14			18w43a				Wooden swords now break bamboo instantly.
1.16			20w06a				Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden swords.
1.19			22w11a				Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden swords.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Bamboo planks can now be used to craft wooden swords.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Cherry planks can now be used to craft wooden swords.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The attack speed for wooden swords has been increased to 3.
							The base damage is now 2HP, meaning that wooden swords now do 1HP more damage than before.
							The attack reach of wooden swords has been increased to 3.5 blocks.
2							The attack speed of wooden swords has been decreased to 2.5.
3							The attack speed of wooden swords has been reverted back to 3.0.
4							Wooden swords can now perform critical, knockback (sprint) hits on 100% charge.
4							The attack reach of all weapons was decreased by 0.5 block. Wooden swords now have a 3 blocks reach.
5							Weapons have been nerfed. Wooden swords now do 1HP less damage. This means that the wooden sword now does 4HP damage.
6							All weapons' attack reach have been buffed by 0.5 block.
6							Wooden swords now always do sweep attack, even in the air.
7c							All weapons' attack reach have been nerfed by 0.5 block. The wooden sword's attack reach is now 3 blocks again.
7c							Wooden swords no longer sweep without Sweeping Edge and 200% charge.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added wooden swords. They actually function as tools despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.0							Wooden swords can now be crafted with wooden planks and sticks.
v0.8.0			build 7				Wooden swords can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
v0.11.0			build 11				Wooden swords are now available in the Creative inventory.
			build 12				Wooden swords have been removed from the Creative inventory.
			build 13				Wooden swords are available in Creative mode again.
v0.12.1			build 1				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), wooden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
			build 1				In Creative mode, wooden swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.
			build 11				Blocks can no longer be broken while holding a wooden sword in Creative mode.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of wooden swords have been changed.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.20.20				Wooden 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 wooden swords.
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00			The ability to block with wiiden wooden swords has been added, giving the player more options in combat.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), wooden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			In Creative mode, wooden 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 wooden swords is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the sword has less than 3 enchantments.
			1.90				The texture of wooden swords have been changed.
			1.91				The ability to block with wooden swords has been removed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added wooden swords.
0.1.0							Wooden swords cannot block attacks.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, the wooden sword's numeral ID was 268.

Issues

Issues relating to "Wooden Sword" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

The wooden sword's traditional (first) 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 rest of the swords, including the wooden sword, followed.

Gallery

Renders

Enchanted Wooden Sword

In other media

Wooden sword in the Plastic Pack.
A sword as it appears in Legend of the Chambered.

Navigation

[1] The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit. It ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes the sword is at maximum charge.

[2] The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit. It ignores enchantments and critical hits

[3] MC-18368

[4] MC-201394

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