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How to Craft Stone Sword in Minecraft

Stone Sword in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Melee combat.

Making a Stone Sword takes 2 Cobblestones and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table. The grid takes two Cobblestones stacked in the middle column and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. That comes out as 1 Stone Sword. Durability is 131, and that is how many uses one gets you.

Stone Sword Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Stone Sword is minecraft:stone_sword. In commands the namespace may be left off, so stone_sword works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p stone_sword
Give several at once
/give @p stone_sword 5
Give it to a named player
/give Steve stone_sword 1

Cheats have to be on for Stone Sword to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Repairing Stone Sword

Those 131 uses are not the end of the road. Feed Stone Sword back onto an anvil with Cobblestone and it comes back up with its enchantments intact.

There is a cheaper way, and a catch. A grindstone merges two worn Stone Sword items without costing levels, but it removes every enchantment while it does so.

The cheapest fix of all is Mending, which Stone Sword accepts. Experience you collect goes into the tool rather than your level bar, and it keeps itself topped up.

Overview

The Stone Sword deals 5 attack damage and has 131 durability. Stone Sword uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

The stone sword was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.16. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the stone sword, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with cobblestone (mine stone) and stick (craft from planks).

Per Stack

Work a stack down, 64 cobblestones, and you land on 32 stone swords. The recipe wants 32 sticks beside it. Down to the last cobblestones, nothing spare.

Which Material Lasts Longest

Durability of every material this item comes in, weakest first.
Golden SwordGolden SwordGold32
Wooden SwordWooden SwordWood59
Stone SwordStone SwordStone131
Iron SwordIron SwordIron250
Diamond SwordDiamond SwordDiamond1561
Netherite SwordNetherite SwordNetherite2031

What It Does In A Fight

Swings before it breaks
65 swings
Attack damage
5
Attacks per second
1.6
Enchantability
5

Calculated from Minecraft Java 26.2’s own block hardness and tool speed values, without enchantments, Haste or Mining Fatigue. Bedrock Edition publishes no equivalent figures, so these are Java only.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Cobblestone2xMine stone
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

A Crafting Table and 2x Cobblestone (mine stone) and Stick (craft from planks): that is everything Stone Sword asks for.

The Full Chain

2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 2 Cobblestone and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Stone SwordStone SwordStone Swordthis page

Gather this first

2Cobblestone2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    2x Cobblestone

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Stone Sword

Minecraft crafting recipe for Stone Sword: 2 x Cobblestone, 1 x Stick in a crafting table, making 1 Stone Sword.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 2x Cobblestone and 1x Stick. Plan the Cobblestone first: mine stone.

Uses for Stone Sword

  • Melee combat
  • Destroying cobwebs

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Stone Sword on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Stone Sword in Minecraft?
To craft a Stone Sword you need 2 Cobblestones and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Stone Sword.
What do you need to make a Stone Sword from scratch?
Gather 2 Cobblestones and 2 Planks and you have everything a Stone Sword needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Where do you find the materials for a Stone Sword?
The materials for a Stone Sword each come from somewhere different. Cobblestone: mine stone. Stick: craft from planks.
How many hits does a Stone Sword last?
A Stone Sword lasts 65 swings. A hit costs two durability out of 131, where breaking a block costs one, which is why the same material lasts half as long in a fight as it does in a mine.
How many Stone Swords do you get from one craft?
The Stone Sword recipe makes one Stone Sword per craft.
What is the item ID for Stone Sword in Minecraft?
Stone Sword is registered as minecraft:stone_sword. Commands accept the short form stone_sword as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Stone Sword?
Use /give @p stone_sword to put a Stone Sword in your own inventory. Add a number on the end for more than one, and note that cheats have to be on.
What version of Minecraft added the Stone Sword?
The stone sword was already listed in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release Mojang publishes with an English language file, so this one is older than the files can prove and there is nothing earlier to check against. The current release still makes a Stone Sword exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
2 Cobblestones and 1 Stick in, 1 Stone Sword out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Every Java release since 1.13 was checked in order, 50 of them, and 1.16 is where this recipe last changed.
Stack size, durability, enchantments
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
Break times, damage and wear
Hardness and tool speed, Java 26.2. Calculated, not timed.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Stone Sword per craft against the stack size.

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