Swords

The Sword is a basic fighting item found in Minecraft with Hexxit adding more types and variations.  There are swords from Vanilla MineCraft, Swords from other mods, and then there are swords which require a completely different crafting system from Tinker's Construct.  The list below is incomplete.

Swords deal more damage than tools. Swords can also 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 1.5x faster than using hands/tool not intended for the block.

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.

Sword Damage List & Effects

Image	Material	Damage	Durability	Additional Effects
	Slime	3	131	Applies Nausea I on target for 0.5 seconds
	Ghostwood	4	59
	Wood	5	59
	Gold	5	32
	Quartz	5	131
	Darkwood	5	131
	Stone	6	131
	Fusewood	6	250
	Livingmetal	6	250	Durability repairs when collecting souls.
	Ironwood	6	512
	Biomass	6	150	Durability repairs when collecting blood.
	Frezarite	6	225	Applies Slowness II on target for 1 second.
	Iron	7	250
	Bloodwood	7	350
	Steeleaf	7	131
	Diamond	8	1561
	Fiery	8	1024	Sets target on fire for 1 damage for 3 ticks.
	Meteorite	8	900	Has natural Magnetization I enchantment, pulling items nearby
	Kreknorite	8	900	Has natural Fire Aspect II enchantment, dealing up to 7 fire damage.

Giant Sword Damage List

Image	Material	Damage	Durability	Additional Effects
	Gold	6	48
	Wood	6	88
	Patchwork	6	45
	Stone	7	196
	Skull	7	240	Can't deal damage to skeletons
	Iron	8	375
	Quartz	8	525
	Livingmetal	9	375	Has natural Knockback II enchantment. Durability heals when souls are collected.
	Biomass	10	225	Durability heals when blood is collected.
	Diamond	9	2341
	Ender	9	1350

A player holding a Diamond Giant Sword.

Bigsword Damage List

Image	Material	Damage	Durability	Additional Effects
	Iron Bigsword	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	3-6 (Splash)	2048	Sword does 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 moues 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 an appropriate material. Quartz sword can use any types of quartz block in place of the diamond.

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

Giant Swords

Excluding the recipes below, the above may have the diamonds replaced with any appropriate material.

• Note: Wooden Giant swords can only be crafted with Oak, Spruce, Jungle, or Birch logs.

Skull Giant Sword

Ender Giant Sword

Nether Quartz Giant Sword

Patchwork Giant Sword

Tinkerer'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, Cleavers, and Large Swords.  To read more about Tinker's Construct, click here.