Wooden Sword

A wooden sword is an early-game variant of sword crafted from planks and sticks. 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 inflicts damage on both mobs and other players. Upon damaging a mob or player, the wooden sword's durability decreases by 1.

Attacking a boat or a minecart with a wooden sword requires 2 hits in Java Edition, without decreasing the wooden sword's durability.

Sweep attack

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

If the player is grounded, is not performing a sprint-knockback attack, and has an attack charge of 84.8% or above, the wooden sword performs a sweep attack. Sweep attacks are indicated by a gale particle that reaches nearby enemies for 1HP and knocks them back. All enemies within a 1 by 0.25 by 1 block area of any part of the attacked mob and whose feet are 3 or less blocks away from player's feet are affected by the sweep. Sweep attacks play a unique sound effect, and the amount of knockback inflicted by them is 80% of the base knockback. The Sweeping Edge enchantment increases the sweep attack's damage to surrounding entities from a set 1HP to 50% of the wooden sword's base damage for level I, 67% for level II and 75% for level III. If the wooden sword is enchanted, the enchantments are carried over into the sweep to apply to surrounding mobs.

Statistics

Unenchanted

Java Edition
Tier	Wooden
Attack damage	4HP
Attack damage (critical hit)	6HP
Attack speed	1.6 (0.625 seconds)
DPS	6.4
DPS (critical hit)	9.6
Sweep damage	1HP
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Mining efficiency	1.5 15 (on cobwebs) 30 (on bamboo)
Durability	59
Enchantability	15

Bedrock Edition
Tier	Wooden
Attack damage	5HP
Attack damage (critical hit)	7.5HP × 3.75
DPS	10
DPS (critical hit)	15
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Mining efficiency	1.5 15 (on cobwebs) 30 (on bamboo)
Durability	60
Enchantability	15

Enchanted

Java Edition
Type	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
	5HP	5.5HP × 2.75	6HP	6.5HP × 3.25	7HP
(critical)	7HP	7.5HP × 3.75	8HP	8.5HP × 4.25	9HP
Type	Smite / BoA I	Smite / BoA II	Smite / BoA III	Smite / BoA IV	Smite / BoA V
	6.5HP × 3.25	9HP	11.5HP × 5.75	14HP × 7	16.5HP × 8.25
(critical)	8.5HP × 4.25	11HP × 5.5	13.5HP × 6.75	16HP × 8	18.5HP × 9.25
Type	Sweeping Edge I	Sweeping Edge II	Sweeping Edge III
(sweep attack)	2HP	2.68HP × 1.34	3HP

Bedrock Edition
Type	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
	6HP	7HP	8HP	10HP	11HP × 5.5
(critical)	9HP	10.5HP × 5.25	12HP × 6	15HP × 7.5	16.5HP × 8.25
Type	Smite / BoA I	Smite / BoA II	Smite / BoA III	Smite / BoA IV	Smite / BoA V
	7HP	10HP	12HP × 6	15HP × 7.5	17HP × 8.5
(critical)	10.5HP × 5.25	15HP × 7.5	18HP × 9	22.5HP × 11.25	25.5HP × 12.75

Breaking

A wooden sword can also be used to destroy certain blocks faster. In most cases, the base mining speed of these blocks is multiplied by 1.5, effectively reducing the time it takes to destroy them with bare hands by ¹⁄₃. Wooden swords break cobwebs much faster than bare hands and they break bamboo instantly. Using a wooden sword to destroy any block that doesn't break instantly by hand decreases its durability by 2; this includes bamboo, even though the wooden sword is the fastest tool for breaking it.^[1]

If a wooden sword is enchanted with Silk Touch, by using either Creative or commands, cobwebs destroyed by the sword drop themselves instead of the usual string because the sword is classified as the proper tool for cobwebs.

The following table shows the time it takes to break blocks on which wooden swords have any effect. Colors indicate what gets dropped:

Itself
Block's normal drop (e.g., seeds, sapling, apple)
Nothing

Block	Fists	Sword
Bamboo	1.5 s	0.05 s (instant)	0.05 s (instant)
Big Dripleaf	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.0125 – 0.075 s
Chorus Flower	0.6 s	0.4 s	0.05 – 0.3 s
Chorus Plant	0.6 s	0.4 s	0.05 – 0.3 s
Cobweb	20 s	0.4 s	0.4 s
Cocoa	0.3s	0.2s	0.025 – 0.15 s
Glow Lichen	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.025 – 0.15 s
Glow Lichen	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.02 s
Jack o'Lantern	1.5 s	1 s	0.125 – 0.75 s
Leaves	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.025 – 0.15 s
Leaves	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.02s
Melon	1.5 s	1 s	0.125 – 0.75 s
Moss Carpet‌^{[BE only]}	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.0125 – 0.075 s
Pumpkin Carved Pumpkin	1.5s	1 s	0.125 – 0.75 s
Vines	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.025 – 0.15 s
Vines	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.02 s

Creative mode

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

Repairing

Combining

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

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
Matching Damaged Swords		The durability of the two wooden swords is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Anvil repair

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

Enchantments

A wooden 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 ignites unlit candles, campfires, and TNT when used.	II	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Sweeping Edge‌^{[JE only]}	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

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Strong attack	Players	When a player deals an attack that does not trigger any other attack sounds	`entity.player.attack.strong`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.strong`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	1.0	16
	Critical attack	Players	When a player deals a critical hit	`entity.player.attack.crit`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.crit`	0.7	1.0	16
	Knockback attack	Players	When a player deals a sprinting attack	`entity.player.attack.knockback`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.knockback`	0.7	1.0	16
	Sweeping attack	Players	When a player deals a sweep attack	`entity.player.attack.sweep`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.sweep`	0.7	1.0	16
	Weak attack	Players	When a player deals an attack with no damage	`entity.player.attack.nodamage`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.weak`	0.7	1.0	16
	Weak attack	Players	When a player attempts to attack without sufficient cooldown	`entity.player.attack.weak`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.weak`	0.7	1.0	16
	Item breaks	Players	When a sword's durability is exhausted	`entity.item.break`	`subtitles.entity.item.break`	0.8	0.8–1.2	16

↑ 0.6 for strong1 through strong4, and 0.7 for strong5 and strong6

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	Strong attack	Players	When a player deals an attack with damage	`game.player.attack.strong`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.strong`	0.2	0.8–1.2
	Weak attack	Players	When a player deals an attack with no damage	`game.player.attack.nodamage`	`subtitles.entity.player.attack.weak`	0.2	0.8–1.2
	Item breaks	Players	When a sword's durability is exhausted	`random.break`	`subtitles.entity.item.break`	1.0	0.9

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

Videos

History

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Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
0.31	20100128-2200	Added wooden swords.
		Wooden swords cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the starting 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' durability has been increased from 33 to 59.
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.^[4]
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.^[5]
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.
1.13.1	18w30b	The durability of wooden swords has been decreased from 60 to 59 due to the fix of a bug.^[6]
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.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop	24w40a	Pale oak 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.

Bedrock Edition

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.^{[is this the correct version?]}
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

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

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 wooden sword as it appears in Minecraft Earth.
A wooden sword as it appears in Minecraft Earth.

Notes

↑ ^a ^b ^c Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.

References

↑ MC-195168 – Swords consume double durability than they normally would when destroying bamboo saplings, bamboo, or cobwebs
↑ MC-27140 – Player can destroy boats and minecarts with a sword/trident in creative mode
↑ You can still destroy paintings, item frames, leash knots and armor stands with swords in creative
↑ MC-18368
↑ MC-201394
↑ MC-120664 – Tool durability is off by one – resolved as "Fixed".

[5] 0.6 for strong1 through strong4, and 0.7 for strong5 and strong6

[note1-4] Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.

[1] MC-195168 – Swords consume double durability than they normally would when destroying bamboo saplings, bamboo, or cobwebs

[2] MC-27140 – Player can destroy boats and minecarts with a sword/trident in creative mode

[3] You can still destroy paintings, item frames, leash knots and armor stands with swords in creative

[6] MC-18368

[7] MC-201394

[8] MC-120664 – Tool durability is off by one – resolved as "Fixed".