Diamond Sword

Diamond Sword

Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 7HP BE: 8HP
Attack speed‌[JE only]	1.6 (0.625 seconds)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Sweep damage‌[JE only]	1HP SE I: 3.5HP × 1.75 SE II: 4.69HP × 2.345 SE III: 5.25HP × 2.625
Mining efficiency	1.5 15 (on cobwebs) 30 (on bamboo)
Durability	JE: 1561 BE: 1562
Enchantability	10
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A diamond sword is a variant of sword that is crafted from diamonds. It is the second-highest tier of sword, dealing more damage than an iron sword and having higher durability. It can be upgraded into a netherite sword using a netherite ingot and netherite upgrade at a smithing table.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Diamond Sword	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.2% { "item": "Diamond Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Sword	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Sword	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	15.2% { "item": "Damaged Enchanted Diamond Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.15225833637026243, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Diamond Sword	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	16.6% { "item": "Diamond Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16629350702218604, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Sword	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Sword	Bastion Remnant	Treasure chest	1	16.6% { "item": "Damaged Enchanted Diamond Sword", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.16629350702218604, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

Crafting

A diamond sword is crafted using 1 stick and 2 diamonds.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Diamond + Stick

Trading

The diamond sword trade of a weaponsmith.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Weaponsmith	Master	100%	100%	13–27 × Emerald	Enchanted Diamond Sword	3	30	0.2

Usage

Breaking

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.

If a sword is enchanted with Silk Touch, either using Creative or commands, cobwebs the sword destroys drop the cobwebs themselves instead of the usual string. This is due to the sword being classified as the proper tool for cobwebs.

Creative mode

In Creative mode, 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.

Attacking

A diamond sword is used to deal damage to mobs and entities by attacking them. The diamond sword has 7HP base damage in Java Edition and 8HP base damage in Bedrock Edition, and can be enchanted to deal more damage. The following tables show how the Sharpness enchantment affects the damage dealt by the sword.

Extra damage of Sharpness enchantment

Sharpness extra damage

Edition	I	II	III	IV	V
Java Edition	1HP	1.5HP × 0.75	2HP	2.5HP × 1.25	3HP
Bedrock Edition	1HP	2HP	3HP	5HP	6HP

Total damage of sword with Sharpness

The tables below assume that the attack is fully charged‌^{[Java Edition only]}, the target is not wearing armor, and neither the attacker nor the target has any effects.

Java Edition

Diamond sword Sharpness damage

Attack type	Base damage	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
Normal	7HP	8HP	8.5HP × 4.25	9HP	9.5HP × 4.75	10HP
Critical	10.5HP × 5.25	11.5HP × 5.75	12HP × 6	12.5HP × 6.25	13HP × 6.5	13.5HP × 6.75

Bedrock Edition

Diamond sword Sharpness damage

Attack type	Base damage	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
Normal	8HP	9HP	10HP	11HP × 5.5	13HP × 6.5	14HP × 7
Critical	12HP × 6	13.5HP × 6.75	15HP × 7.5	16.5HP × 8.25	19.5HP × 9.75	21HP × 10.5

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Damaged Diamond Sword		The durability of the two swords is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.

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

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Diamond Sword + Diamond	Diamond Sword

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

Enchantments

A diamond sword can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max level	Method	Weight
Sharpness	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Smite	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods	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 lights unlit candles, campfires, and blocks of 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

Upgrading

Like other diamond items, a diamond sword can be upgraded to a netherite sword, increasing its durability and attack damage, as well as granting resistance to fire and lava when dropped as an item.

Ingredients	Smithing recipe
Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Sword + Netherite Ingot

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e 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	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

Bedrock Edition:

v t e 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
Diamond Sword	diamond_sword	Item	item.minecraft.diamond_sword

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Diamond Sword	diamond_sword	316	Item	item.diamond_sword.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Time to Strike!	Use planks and sticks to make a sword.	Pick up any type of sword from a crafting table output.	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal 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.	30	Bronze

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100128-2200				Added emerald swords.
							Emerald swords cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the starting house.
			20100129-1447				Emerald swords can now be crafted.
			20100129-2332				Emerald swords are now called diamond swords.
			20100131-2156				Diamond swords now have durability which is 257 points.
							Diamond swords now cost 1 durability per hit, and 2 points per block broken.
							Now diamond swords deal 16HP × 8 damage.
			20100202				Diamond swords have been nerfed and now deal 10HP damage.
Java Edition Infdev
20100313							Diamond swords' durability has been increased to 513.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.3							Diamond swords' durability has been increased to 1025.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Diamond swords' durability has been increased to 1561.
1.5							Diamond swords' attack damage has increased by 1 because the player's barehand damage is buffed from 1HP to 2HP. They now deal 11HP × 5.5 damage per hit.
1.8			Pre-release				Added the ability to block with a diamond sword, giving the player more options in combat. Blocking deflects 50% of incoming melee damage, non-magical projectiles like arrows and explosion damage, and a bit of knockback. The diamond 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 diamond sword.
							As barehand damage has been reduced from 2HP to 1HP, the damage of diamond swords have been reduced to their pre-Beta 1.5 values.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Diamond sword damage has been nerfed to keep enchanting balanced. Reduced the damage from 10HP to 7HP.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Diamond swords can now be enchanted using the enchantment table.
1.3.1			12w21a				Blacksmith villagers now sell diamond swords for 12–13 emeralds.
							Diamond swords are now renewable because other renewable items can be sold for emeralds, and they can then be used to buy diamond swords.
1.6.1			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), diamond swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, therefore buffing the attack damage by 1HP.
			13w25b				In Creative mode, diamond swords are no longer able to break blocks, and no sound plays when they're hit with one.
1.8			14w02a				Weaponsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond swords for 12–15 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond swords are no longer sold.
			14w25a				Blocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.
			14w30a				Diamond sword holding position have been tweaked, and the blocking animation has changed. Blocking while mining was made impossible.
1.9			15w31a				Enchanted diamond swords can now be found in end city chests.
			15w33c				Diamond swords no longer block attacks. Instead, shields are used.
			15w34b				Diamond swords now use the attack speed attribute. The attack speed of a sword is 1.25 or 0.8 seconds.
			15w34c				Nerfed diamond swords as they now do 7HP attack damage. However, their attack speed has been increased to 1.45, or 0.69 seconds.
							Diamond 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 instead of a flat 1.25HP × 0.625 per level.
			15w37a				Diamond swords now have an attack speed of 1.6, or 0.6 seconds.
			15w49a				The sweep attack of diamond swords now does 1HP damage to affected mobs and players.
1.11.1			16w50a				Added Sweeping Edge enchantment, which can be applied on diamond swords.
1.13.1			18w30b				The durability of diamond swords has been reduced from 1562 to 1561 due to the fix of a bug.
September 10, 2018							Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of the updated texture of diamond swords.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of diamond swords have been changed.
							Diamond swords now break bamboo instantly.
1.16			20w06a				Diamond swords are now used to craft a netherite sword along with a netherite ingot
			20w09a				The texture of diamond swords has been changed.
			20w10a				Diamond swords can now be used to upgrade into a netherite sword using a smithing table.
			20w17a				Diamonds swords now generate in place of netherite swords in bastion remnant chests.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Upgrading diamond swords to netherite swords now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The attack speed of diamond swords has been increased to 3.
							The base damage is now 2HP, meaning that diamond swords now do 1HP more damage than before.
							The attack reach of diamond swords has been increased to 3.5 blocks.
2							The attack speed of diamond swords has been decreased to 2.5.
3							The attack speed of diamond swords has been reverted back to 3.0.
							The attack key can now again be held down to automatically attack when the attack meter is full.
							When the attack key is held, the attacks now happen only when the diamond sword is at 120% charge, which is slower than if attacks were timed.
4							Diamond swords can now perform critical or knockback (sprint) hits on 100% charge.
							Diamond sword now have a 3 blocks reach again.
5							Weapons have been nerfed. Diamond swords now do 6HP points of damage.
6							The attack reach of diamond sword have been buffed by 0.5 block.
							Diamond swords now always do sweep attack, even in the air.
7c							All weapons' attack reach have been nerfed by 0.5 block. The diamond sword's attack reach is now 3 blocks again.
							Diamond swords no longer sweep without Sweeping Edge and 200% charge.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added diamond swords. They actually function as a weapon despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.2							Diamond swords can now be crafted with diamonds and sticks.
v0.11.0			build 11				Diamond swords are now available in the Creative inventory.
v0.11.0			build 12				Diamond swords have been removed from Creative.
v0.11.0			build 13				Diamond swords are available in Creative mode again.
v0.12.1			build 1				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), diamond swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP 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.[is this the correct version?]
			build 11				Blocks can no longer be broken while holding a diamond sword in Creative mode.[is this the correct version?]
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Enchanted diamond swords can now be found in End city chests.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Enchanted diamond swords are now sold by weaponsmith villagers.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of diamond swords have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Trading has been changed. Diamond swords now cost 8 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				The texture of diamond swords has been changed.
			beta 1.16.0.63				Diamonds swords now generate in place of netherite swords in bastion remnant chests.
1.17.30			beta 1.17.20.20				Diamond swords now break bamboo instantly.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.21				Upgrading diamond swords to netherite swords now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template.

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 diamond swords.
TU5							The ability to block with diamond swords has been added, giving the player more options in combat.
TU14		1.04					Blacksmith villagers now sell diamond swords for 12–13 emeralds.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), diamond swords now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, therefore buffing the attack damage by 1HP.
							In Creative mode, diamond 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		Weaponsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond swords for 12–15 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond swords are no longer sold.
							Blocking immediately after attacking no longer continues the swing animation.
TU36	CU25	1.28	1.28	1.28	Patch 7		The attack damage of diamond swords is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the sword has less than 3 enchantments.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Enchanted diamond swords can now be found in end city chests.
			1.90				The texture of diamond swords have been changed.
			1.91				Trading has been changed. Enchanted diamond swords sold by weaponsmiths now cost 8 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades.
							The ability to block with diamond swords has been removed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added diamond swords. They cannot block attacks.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, diamond swords had a numerical ID of 276.

Issues

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

Trivia

• The diamond sword's original texture is a blue version of the sword from Notch's abandoned RPG, Legend of the Chambered, in which the sword looks like the old iron sword texture.
• Plastic diamond and enchanted swords were once official Minecraft merchandise. However, they can no longer be purchased.
• In the game Transformice, a diamond sword can be found in the shop.

Gallery

Renders

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  Enchanted Diamond Sword

In other media

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  Pixel art of Alex fighting with a diamond sword in the Nether.
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  Alex retrieving another diamond sword from a chest.
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  Officially licensed T-Shirt of a diamond sword.
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  Officially licensed toy of a diamond sword.
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  Diamond sword in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
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  Artwork of Steve holding a diamond sword to attack a snow golem.
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  Steve holding a diamond sword while on a horse.
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  Artwork of Steve flying with a diamond sword.
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  Tyler brandishing a diamond sword.
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  A Diamond Level figure of Steve holding a diamond sword.
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  Concept art for a diamond sword statue.
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  Concept art for a diamond sword statue.
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  Concept art for a diamond sword statue.
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  A diamond sword as it appears in A Minecraft Movie.
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  A diamond sword as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
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  A diamond sword as it appears in Minecraft Earth.
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  A diamond sword as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
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  Nerf diamond sword
• 

See also

• Stone Sword
• Iron Sword
• Netherite Sword