Sword
Weapon · WeaponMelee2★A properly keen blade for close-range fighting — more use in a scrap than a pen, at any rate. Crafted at a Weapon Workbench.
Sword is 34th of 79 melee weapons by attack, at 432 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 14,330 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Sword Crafting Recipe
Ingot×45
Wooden Board
Stone×30
Ore×92
Wood×38Crafting it takes 78 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Sword
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is enemy camp loot in the Desert at 3.3% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Sword
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 360 to 540, a 1.5x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
Schematics That Unlock Sword
The Technology tree hands you the plain Sword at level 29 for 2 Technology points, but nothing above that base version — the rarer builds are schematic-only. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is enemy camp loot in the Desert, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Sword schematic works out at roughly 189 containers against the 391 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Sword Schematic 2 | 2★ | Desert camp loot, Forest camp loot, Forest chests +4 more — best 3.3% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (1.05%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Excalibur matches it exactly at 432 attack — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw attack, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Terra Blade at 467; below it is Terra Blade at 425.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
