Elemental Swords: Expanded

Elemental Swords: Expanded

Sixty two swords. One for every element worth swinging.

Start with a Dirt Sword that barely counts as a weapon. Work up through cactus, bone, honey and cobweb, into the elements proper – fire, frost, thunder, storm, nature, poison – and out the far side to the Dragon Sword, the Time Sword, and an Elemental Sword that fuses four of the others into one.

Every sword hits differently. Not one of them is a recoloured iron sword with a bigger number.

What you get

• 62 craftable swords, from a joke to an endgame weapon.
• On-hit powers – burning, freezing, poison, wither, lifesteal, lightning, levitation, teleportation, lingering clouds, area shockwaves.
• Right click abilities on cooldowns – meteors, sonic beams, frost novas, ghast fireballs, dashes, blinks, a time stop, and a gravity collapse.
• Passive auras on a handful of swords – fire resistance, water breathing, slow falling, night vision, and strength during a thunderstorm.
• Tooltips that tell you the truth – every power, aura and ability is written on the item, with its cooldown.
• A real progression – eight material tiers, so a Dirt Sword and a Dragon Sword are not remotely the same purchase.
• English and Spanish language files.
• No config, no dependencies, no ceremony – install it and the swords are in the creative tab.

How a sword works

Every sword can carry up to three things, and the tooltip tells you which:

Right click abilities cost a little durability and go on a cooldown printed on the tooltip. An ability that cannot do anything – healing at full health, swapping places with nothing – refuses to fire and costs you nothing.

The swords

Earthen (6)

Day one swords. Cheap, fragile, and mostly a joke – which is the point.

Organic (9)

Grown rather than mined. Still weak, but these are the first swords with real tricks.

Mineral (2)

Dug out of the ground, and the first hint of the elements to come.

Metal (6)

Smelted and hammered. Solid, dependable, and each one leans on what it is made of.

Crystal (6)

Cut rather than forged. Sharper, stranger, and every one of them does something odd.

Elemental (12)

The heart of the mod. Twelve swords, twelve elements, no overlap.

Dark and Nether (8)

Expensive and nasty. Every one of these takes something off the target.

The End (13)

Past the dragon. Rare materials, long cooldowns, and abilities that reshape a fight.

Crafting

Every sword is crafted the way a vanilla sword is – two of the blade material stacked on top of a handle:

X          X = the blade material (dirt, blaze powder, a nether star...)
X          # = the handle (a stick, a bone, a blaze rod, an end rod)
#

The handle is part of what makes each recipe unique, so a Ghast Sword and a Vampire Sword both built from ghast tears are told apart by what you hang them on.

The one exception is the capstone. The Elemental Sword is fused from four finished elemental swords around a nether star:

 F         F = Fire Sword       T = Thunder Sword
TSN        S = Frost Sword      N = Nature Sword
 *         * = Nether Star

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.234 or newer
• No other mods, no config file, no world generation changes.

Everything the mod adds is an item, so it is safe to add to an existing world and safe to remove again apart from losing the swords themselves.