Overview
A Stone Sword is the first weapon worth keeping. Five damage a swing kills a zombie in four hits and a skeleton in four, and 131 uses is more than double what wood offers for material you are already digging up by the stack. On any fresh world this is the weapon that carries you through the first week, and there is no reason to skip it: cobblestone is free, cobbled deepslate and blackstone work in the same recipe, and a broken one is replaced in seconds without touching your iron. The trade-off worth knowing is enchantability. Stone has the worst enchantability in the game at 5, well below wood's 15, so a stone sword pulled from an enchanting table gets noticeably weaker enchantments than any other material. That makes it a pure work weapon: fight with it, break it, make another. Keep the levels for the iron or diamond sword that follows it. Against early threats it is enough — the gap between 4 and 5 damage is the difference between a creeper exploding and a creeper dying first.
The first week's fighting: zombies, skeletons and spiders around a starter base, at a material cost of nothing and a replacement time of about ten seconds.
Stone Sword is a weapon item in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Durability is 131. An anvil plus Cobbled Deepslate, Cobblestone, and Blackstone restores it; two worn copies can also be merged.
It can be enchanted, which is usually worth doing before heavy use. It is unstackable. You get it by killing Wither Skeleton.
It is crafted from Cobblestone and Stick. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the stone tool set
How to get it
Craft 1 from 2 Cobblestone, cobbled deepslate or blackstone, plus 1 Stick. It holds 131 uses, and a single cobblestone repairs it on an anvil.
Tips
- Blackstone and cobbled deepslate craft the same sword, so a Nether or deepslate trip needs no cobblestone carried.
- Stone has the lowest enchantability of any material at 5, so save your levels for an iron or diamond blade.
- Carry two: a spare stone sword weighs one slot and removes the risk of breaking mid-fight in a cave.
- Five damage kills a zombie in four hits, so back away and let the cooldown refill rather than spamming clicks.
Damage and attack speed
Stone Sword deals 5 damage per hit and swings 1.6 times a second, which works out at 8 damage per second when every swing is fully charged.
A swing that lands before the cooldown bar refills deals a fraction of that, so waiting for the bar is worth more than clicking faster.
That is 4 hits to kill a zombie or a creeper, the same for a skeleton, and 4 hits for a spider.
Properties
Stone Sword lasts 131 uses before it breaks, and Cobbled Deepslate repairs it on an anvil. Two worn copies can also be merged, on an anvil or a grindstone. Unbreaking III roughly quadruples the lifespan, and Mending replaces the repair cost with experience. Its enchantability of 5 decides how good the enchanting table's offers are: the higher the number, the more often a level-30 table offers the top-tier enchantment rather than a weak one. Stone Sword does not stack — each one occupies an inventory slot of its own.
- Damage per second
- 8
- Enchantability
- 5
- Repaired with
- Cobbled Deepslate
- Renewable
- Yes
- Category
- Weapons
How it compares to the rest of the set
Every tier of sword in the game, side by side, so the trade-off is visible in one place: Stone Sword sits 2 of 6.
Gold is the outlier: it enchants better than anything else (enchantability 22) and breaks almost immediately, which is why gold gear is enchanted and then upgraded rather than used.
| Item | Durability | Attack damage | Attack speed | Enchantability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Sword | 59 | 4 | 1.6 | 15 |
| Stone Sword | 131 | 5 | 1.6 | 5 |
| Iron Sword | 250 | 6 | 1.6 | 14 |
| Golden Sword | 32 | 4 | 1.6 | 22 |
| Diamond Sword | 1,561 | 7 | 1.6 | 10 |
| Netherite Sword | 2,031 | 8 | 1.6 | 15 |
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Stone Sword
Cobblestone, blackstone or cobbled deepslate — Cobblestone, Blackstone, Cobbled Deepslate
Dropped by
1 mobs drop Stone Sword: Wither Skeleton. Looting raises the maximum on most of them.
Enchantments it can take
9 enchantments can be applied to Stone Sword: Bane of Arthropods, Fire Aspect, Knockback, Looting, Mending, Sharpness, Smite, Sweeping Edge, and Unbreaking.
Mending is a treasure enchantment and never appears at an enchanting table — they come from loot chests, fishing or villager trades only.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Stone Sword in Minecraft?
Stone Sword is crafted from Cobblestone and Stick.
What is the stack size of Stone Sword?
Stone Sword does not stack at all. Every one you carry takes an inventory slot of its own, which is the practical limit on how many you take on a trip.
How much damage does Stone Sword do?
5 damage per fully charged hit, at 1.6 attacks per second — 8 damage per second. Sharpness V adds 3 damage on top of that, and Strength II adds 6 more.
How much durability does Stone Sword have?
Stone Sword has 131 durability, and can be repaired on an anvil with Cobbled Deepslate.
Can Stone Sword be enchanted?
Yes — 9 enchantments apply to it, at an enchanting table with fifteen bookshelves, or from an enchanted book on an anvil. Mending is usually the one worth hunting for, because it removes the repair cost entirely.
The rest of the set
Stone Sword is one of 6 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
