Sweeping Edge
| Maximum level |
III |
|---|---|
| Primary items |
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| Secondary items |
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| Enchantment weight |
2 |
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Sweeping Edge is an enchantment applied to swords that increases sweep attack damage. This only affects the damage of the sweep attack against other surrounding entities, and does not increase damage against the attacked entity itself. Sweeping Edge is not required to do sweep attacks, as swords have the ability innately.[until JE Combat Tests]
Obtaining
Sweeping Edge can be obtained from enchantment tables. Enchanted books with Sweeping Edge can be obtained by fishing, from monster room chests, from librarian villagers, and as non-village structure loot.
Usage
Sweeping Edge increases sweep attack damage by 50%/67%/75% of the sword's attack damage for levels I/II/III. Sweeping Edge is not required to do sweep attacks, as swords have the ability innately. Sweep attacks activate when a player standing on the ground attacks while not sprinting with an attack cooldown at 84.8% or above. The sweep attack damages surrounding entities that are within a 1 by 0.25 by 1 block area of the attacked entity, dealing 1HP.png){kind=small}
and knocking them back. Sweep attacks do not increase damage against the attacked entity, only the surrounding entities, and Sweeping Edge does not change this.
Damage
The formula for sweep attack damage is: 1 + Attack_Damage × (Sweeping_Edge_Level / (Sweeping_Edge_Level + 1)), rounded to the nearest integer. Here, Attack_Damage is the sword's damage after applying Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods. For example, an iron sword enchanted only with Sweeping Edge I deals 1 + 6 × (1 / (1 + 1)) = 4HP damage to each mob hit with a sweep attack. A diamond sword enchanted with Sharpness V and Sweeping Edge III deals .png){kind=small}
1 + 10 × (3 / (3 + 1)) = 8.5HP sweep damage. Any sword without Sweeping Edge deals × 4.251 + Attack_Damage × (0 / (0 + 1)) = 1HP sweep damage. Extra damage from Smite and Bane of Arthropods is applied against undead mobs and arthropod mobs, respectively.
Higher levels than Sweeping Edge III (obtainable via the use of commands or third party editors) are processed following the formula above. The sweeping damage ratio caps at +1 (100% of the sword's base damage), which is achieveable with an enchantment level of 199.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Sweeping Edge | sweeping_edge | enchantment |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
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| 1.11.1 | 16w50a | Added Sweeping Edge. | |||||
| 1.20.5 | 24w03a | ID change from sweeping to sweeping_edge. | |||||
| 1.21 | 24w18a | The sweeping damage ratio increase from Sweeping Edge is now displayed as a tooltip. | |||||
| The sweep attack is now affected by enchantments, allowing Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods to increase its damage alongside Sweeping Edge.[1] | |||||||
| Java Edition Combat Tests | |||||||
| 3 | Sweeping Edge can now be applied to axes. | ||||||
| Applying Sweeping Edge to other tools/weapons with commands now make the tools/weapons sweep. | |||||||
References
Issues
Issues relating to "Sweeping Edge" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
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