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Golden Sword
Rarity tier
 
Common
Attack damage JE: 4HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️

BE: 5HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ πŸ’”
Attack speedβ€Œ[JE only] 1.6 (0.625 seconds)
Attack range 3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin 0
Sweep damageβ€Œ[JE only] 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”

SE I: 2HPπŸ‘ ❀️

SE II: 2.68HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 1.34

SE III: 3HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ πŸ’”
Mining efficiency 1.5
15 (on cobwebs)
30 (on bamboo)
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 can be admired by piglins, and has the highest enchantability.

Obtaining

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Mob loot

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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

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Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
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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" }
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Nether Fortress
Chest 1 17.9%
{ "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.17904394543308721, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
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[A]
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Ruined Portal
Chest 1 20.5%
{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
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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" }
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Nether Fortress
Chest 1 17.9%
{ "item": "Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.17904394543308721, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }
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[A]
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Ruined Portal
Chest 1 20.5%
{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
  1. ↑ a b All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, and Wind Burst), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.

Crafting

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Ingredients Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot +
Stick

Usage

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Breaking

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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

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

Attacking

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A golden sword is used to deal damage to mobs and entities by attacking them. Golden swords have 4HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
base damage in Java Edition and 5HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ πŸ’”
base damage in Bedrock Edition, and can be enchanted to deal more damage.

Repairing

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Combining

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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.

Anvil repair

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Ingredients Anvil recipe
Damaged  +
Gold Ingot

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

Enchantments

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A golden sword can receive the following enchantments:

Name Description Max Level Method Weight
Sharpness[note 1] Increases the damage dealt. V πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
10
Smite[note 1] Increases the damage dealt to undead. V πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
5
Bane of Arthropods[note 1] Increases the damage dealt to arthropods. V πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
5
Looting Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the sword. III πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
2
Knockback Increases the knockback dealt. II πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

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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 πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
2
Sweeping Edgeβ€Œ[JE only] Increases the sweeping damage dealt. III πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
2
Unbreaking Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. III πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
5
Mending Repairs the sword when obtaining experience. I πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
2
Curse of Vanishing The sword vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. I πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
1
  1. ↑ a b c Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.

Smelting ingredient

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Name Ingredients Smelting recipe
Gold Nugget  +
Any fuel
πŸ‘ Invicon Golden Sword.png: Inventory sprite for Golden Sword in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Golden Sword When in Main Hand:  4 Attack Damage  1.6 Attack Speed

πŸ‘ Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal
πŸ‘ Invicon Charcoal.png: Inventory sprite for Charcoal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Charcoal with description: Charcoal
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Log.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Log in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Log with description: Log
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Overworld Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava Bucket
πŸ‘ Invicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Block of Coal with description: Block of Coal

πŸ‘ Invicon Gold Nugget.png: Inventory sprite for Gold Nugget in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Gold Nugget with description: Gold Nugget
0.1

Distracting piglins

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

Sounds

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Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Strong attackPlayersWhen a player deals an attack that does not trigger any other attack soundsentity.player.attack.strongsubtitles.entity.player.attack.strong​varies [sound 1]1.016
​Critical attackPlayersWhen a player deals a critical hitentity.player.attack.critsubtitles.entity.player.attack.crit​0.71.016
​Knockback attackPlayersWhen a player deals a sprinting attackentity.player.attack.knockbacksubtitles.entity.player.attack.knockback​0.71.016
​Sweeping attackPlayersWhen a player deals a sweep attackentity.player.attack.sweepsubtitles.entity.player.attack.sweep​0.71.016
​Weak attackPlayersWhen a player deals an attack with no damageentity.player.attack.nodamagesubtitles.entity.player.attack.weak​0.71.016
​Weak attackPlayersWhen a player attempts to attack without sufficient cooldownentity.player.attack.weaksubtitles.entity.player.attack.weak​0.71.016
​Item breaksPlayersWhen a sword's durability is exhaustedentity.item.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break​0.80.8–1.216
  1. ↑ 0.6 for strong1 through strong4, and 0.7 for strong5 and strong6

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​Strong attackPlayersWhen a player deals an attack with damagegame.player.attack.strongsubtitles.entity.player.attack.strong​0.20.8–1.2
​Weak attackPlayersWhen a player deals an attack with no damagegame.player.attack.nodamagesubtitles.entity.player.attack.weak​0.20.8–1.2
​Item breaksPlayersWhen a sword's durability is exhaustedrandom.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break​1.00.9

Data values

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Java Edition:

NameIdentifierForm Translation key
πŸ‘ ItemSprite golden-sword.png: Sprite image for golden-sword in Minecraft
Golden Sword
golden_swordItem item.minecraft.golden_sword

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Form Translation key
πŸ‘ ItemSprite golden-sword.png: Sprite image for golden-sword in Minecraft
Golden Sword
golden_sword322Item item.golden_sword.name

Achievements

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IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
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Time to Strike!Use planks and sticks to make a sword.Pick up any type of sword from a crafting table output.10Bronze
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OverkillDeal 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.30Bronze
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Oooh, shiny!Distract a Piglin using goldGive a piglin a gold item​[more information needed] while it is aggressive toward the player.30Silver

Advancements

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IconAdvancementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)
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Oh ShinyDistract Piglins with gold The player must not be wearing any golden armor. Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.

Videos

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History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition Indev
0.3120100129-2332πŸ‘ Image
Added golden swords.
20100131Golden 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 4HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
damage.
20100206-2034πŸ‘ Image
The texture of gold swords has been slightly changed.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0releaseZombie pigmen now hold golden swords.
Java Edition Beta
1.2Swords, like all tools, now have more durability.
Prior to this, golden swords had 32 durability.
1.5The damages of all swords have increased by 1, due to the player's barehand damage increasing from 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
to 2HPπŸ‘ ❀️
. As a result, golden swords now dealt 5HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ πŸ’”
.
1.8Pre-releaseAdded 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 2HPπŸ‘ ❀️
to 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
, the damage of golden swords has been reduced to its pre-Beta 1.5 value.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Sword damage has been reduced to make way for enchanting, but golden swords still deal 4HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
damage.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4Swords can now be enchanted in the enchantment table.
1.2.112w06aThe 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.
1.3.112w21aWith the trading implementation, renewable items such as wheat can now be sold to buy a diamond sword. This has now made all swords renewable.
12w34aIf 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.
1.4.612w49aUnbreaking can now be applied to a sword with an enchanted book.
1.6.113w18aGolden swords are now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
13w21aInstead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
), golden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
more damage than before.
13w25bIn Creative mode, swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.[4]
1.814w25aBlocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.[5]
14w30aSword holding position has been tweaked, and the blocking animation has changed. Blocking while mining was made impossible.
1.915w33cSwords no longer block attacks. Instead, shields are used.
15w34bSwords now use the attack speed attribute. The attack speed of a sword is 1.25 or 0.8 seconds.
15w34cNerfed swords, they now do 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
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 knocks back mobs near the one hit. The attack speed meter must be filled for it to work.
15w36aEach Sharpness level now adds 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
damage to the base damage at level I and an additional 0.5HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 0.25
for each additional level, down from a flat 1.25HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 0.625
per level.
15w37aSwords now have an attack speed of 1.6, or 0.6 seconds.
15w43aThe average yield of golden swords in nether fortress chests has been decreased.
15w49aSweep attack now does 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
damage to affected mobs and players.
1.11.116w50aGolden swords now smelt down into golden nuggets.
Added Sweeping Edge enchantment.
1.1318w10aSwords can now generate in buried treasure chests.
1.13.118w30bThe durability of golden swords has been reduced from 33 to 32 due to the fix of a bug.[6]
September 10, 2018πŸ‘ Image
Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of updated sword textures.
1.1418w43aπŸ‘ Image
The textures of golden swords has been changed.
Swords now break bamboo instantly.
1.1620w07aπŸ‘ Image
Added piglins, which can spawn with and drop golden swords.
20w16aGolden swords now generate in bastion remnants chests.
Golden swords now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3The attack speed for all swords has been increased to 3.
The base damage is now 2HPπŸ‘ ❀️
, meaning that all swords now do 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
more damage than before}.
The attack reach of swords has been increased to 3.5 blocks.
2The attack speed of all swords has been decreased to 2.5.
3The 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.
4Swords can now perform critical, knockback (sprint) hits on 100% charge.
The attack reach of all weapons was decreased by 0.5 block. Swords now have a 3 blocks reach.
The 200% attack now gives a bonus reach of 1 block.
6All weapons' attack reach have been buffed by 0.5 block.
200% attacks have been removed.
Swords now always do sweep attacks, even in the air.
The cooldown for missed hits is a 4-tick cooldown instead of using the attack speed attribute.
7cAll 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.
8bEnchantment bonus attack damage is 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)

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0πŸ‘ Image
Added golden swords. They actually function as a weapon despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.2Golden swords can now be crafted with gold ingots and sticks.
v0.11.0build 11Golden swords are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.11.0build 12Golden swords have been removed from creative.
v0.11.0build 13Golden swords are available in creative mode again.
v0.12.1build 1Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
), swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
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 11Blocks can no longer be broken while holding a sword in Creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Golden swords can now be smelted down into golden nuggets.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3πŸ‘ Image
The texture of golden swords has been changed.
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.51Golden swords are now sometimes dropped by piglins that spawn holding a golden sword.
beta 1.16.0.57Golden swords now generate in bastion remnant chests.
Golden swords now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
1.17.30beta 1.17.20.20Swords now break bamboo instantly.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1πŸ‘ Image
Added golden swords.
TU5The ability to block with swords has been added.
TU19CU71.121.121.12Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
), golden swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all swords doing 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
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.
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 3Blocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.
TU36CU251.281.281.28Patch 7The attack damage of golden swords is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the sword has less than 3 enchantments.
TU53CU431.491.501.49Patch 231.0.3Golden swords can now be smelted into golden nuggets.
1.90 πŸ‘ Image
The texture of golden swords has been changed.
1.91The ability to block with swords has been removed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0πŸ‘ Image
Added golden swords.
Swords cannot block attacks.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, golden sword's numerical ID was 267.[verify]

Issues

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

Gallery

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Renders

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ MC-195168 β€“ Swords consume double the durability than they normally would when destroying bamboo saplings, bamboo, or cobwebs
  2. ↑ MC-27140
  3. ↑ MC-18463
  4. ↑ MC-18368
  5. ↑ MC-201394
  6. ↑ MC-120664 β€“ Tool durability is off by one β€“ resolved as "Fixed".

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