Swords

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Swords are basic melee items found in Minecraft, with Hexxit adding more types and variations.  There are two types of swords, enchantable swords (including Vanila minecraft and the majority of modpack added swords) and tinkers swords. Non-tinkers tools can be enchanted as usual, using experience and an enchanting table. Tinkers Construct swords can be enchanted, but it seems to be a bug/glitch. Tinkers weapons are upgraded by using appropriate modifiers and materials for it's attack damage, in contrast to regular swords being affected by its level of Sharpness.

The highest base damage without Enchanting or cheating are the Diamond Giant Sword and Ender Giant Sword^{(Verification Needed)}. This does not include tinkers construct swords.

Holding right click will result in most swords blocking, taking half damage. Some swords have special abilities with their right click, and may not reduce damage as expected. If a shield is in the hotbar, you will switch to the shield while attempting to block with the sword, and once released you will return to the sword after a few moments.

Mining

Swords can gather string from Cobwebs faster than any tool (except shears), but they take double durability damage from breaking blocks.

The sword can destroy all other blocks one and a half faster than using something not intended for the block.

Sword Damage List and Effects

Image	Material	Damage	Durability	Additional Effects/Notes
	Slime		11	Applies Nausea I on target for 0.5 seconds
	Ghostwood	4	59	Applies jump boost 99 for 100 seconds
	Wood	4	59
	Gold	4	32	Has a lower enchanting cost compared to other sword types.
	Quartz	5	131
	Darkwood		131
	Stone	5	131	Wielded and sometimes dropped by Wither Skeletons
	Fusewood	6	250
	Livingmetal	6	250	Repairs itself for 2 durability when a soul is collected
	Ironwood	6	512	Has a natural Knockback I enchantment
	Biomass	6	150	Repairs itself for some durability when blood is collected. 2 for red blood, 4 for green blood, 6 for purple blood
	Frezarite	6	225	Applies Slowness II on target for 1 second
	Iron	6	250
	Bloodwood	7	350
	Steeleaf	7	131	Has a natural Looting II enchantment
	Diamond	7
	Fiery	8	1024	Has a natural Fire Aspect I enchantment, setting mobs on fire for 3 damage
	Meteorite	8	900	Has a natural Magnetization I enchantment, pulling in nearby items
	Kreknorite	8	900	Has a natural Fire Aspect I enchantment, setting mobs on fire for 3 damage(Verification Needed)

Bigsword Damage List

Image	Material	Damage	Durability	Additional effects
		6	250	Sword does 1-9 splash damage when using the charge-up attack (holding right mouse button).  This does more damage the longer the mouse button is held down.  This ability uses 2 durability per mob hit with the splash damage.
	Diamond Bigsword	7	1561	Sword does 1-15 splash damage when using the charge-up attack (holding right mouse button).  This does more damage the longer the mouse button is held down.  This ability uses 2 durability per mob hit with the splash damage.
	Monking Sword	6	2048	6 splash damage when using the charge-up attack (holding right mouse button).  This does not need to be charged and will not do more damage if the mouse button is held down longer.  This ability uses 1-2 durability per mob hit with the splash damage.

Crafting

Standard Swords

Standard Minecraft recipes all follow this standard set-up replacing the diamond with the appropriate material. The quartz sword can use any type of quartz block in place of the diamond.

• Note: All Meteorite Tools require iron ingots instead of sticks.

Giant Swords

For the full article, see Giant Swords.

Giant Swords are a variation of the regular swords that will increase the amount of damage done by the normal variant. When guarding with a Giant Sword, damage caused directly by mobs will not be taken (i.e. arrows, creeper explosions, but fire and fall damage are not blocked).

Tinker's Construct

Note: This section is incomplete.

There are various types of swords that can be created by Tinkers' Construct.  It is a completely different type of crafting system than Minecraft's built-in system with crafting tables.  There are Broadswords, Longswords, Rapiers, Daggers, Cutlasses, and Cleavers. Tinker's tools are upgraded with modifiers, not by enchantments. To read more about Tinker's Construct, click here.