Prismarine Blade

Prismarine Blade

The prismarine blade is a weapon allowing the weilder to do critical extra damage upon backstabbing an enemy.

Obtaining

Crafting:

Ingredients: Stick, Prismarine Shard
Result: Prismarine Blade

Usage

Attacking:

A prismarine blade is used to deal damage to mobs and entities by attacking them. The prismarine blade has 5 () base damage, and can be enchanted to deal more damage. The following tables show how the Sharpness enchantment affects the damage dealt by the weapon.

Extra damage of Sharpness enchantment:

Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
1 ()	2 ()	3 ()	5 ()	6 ()

Total damage of knife with Sharpness:

Attack Type	Base Damage	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
Normal	5 ()	6 ()	7 ()	8 ()	10 ()	11 ($\times 5.5$)
Critical	10.5 ($\times 5.25$)	9 ($\times 4.5$)	10.5 ($\times 5.25$)	12 ($\times 6$)	15 ($\times 7.5$)	16.5 ($\times 8.25$)

Backstabbing:

Attacking an entity with a knife from behind will cause a backstab, dealing 7 () extra damage. Another backstab cannot occur on the same entity until 1.5 seconds have passed. Specifically, the weilder must be looking within 60° of the entity and the entity must be looking within 108° of the weilder's view direction for a backstab to occur.

Repairing:

Combining:

Two knives can be combined together to gain the sum of their durabilities, plus an extra 5% gain.

Anvil Repair:

Ingredients: Damaged Prismarine Blade, Prismarine Shard

Enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Sharpness[1]	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table, Anvil	10
Smite[1]	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table, Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods[1]	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Enchanting Table, Anvil	5
Looting	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the sword.	III	Enchanting Table, Anvil	2
Knockback	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Enchanting Table, Anvil	5
Fire Aspect	Ignites any targets hit by the sword.	II	Enchanting Table, Anvil	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table, Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the sword when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The sword vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

1. Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.

History

Version	Change
26.7.4	Added Prismarine Blade, suggested by aaaidann