Silver Sword

The Silver Sword is your first real weapon upgrade in Evil Hunter, a fireproof blade that slots neatly between Iron and Diamond. You craft it from Silver you mine yourself, so it is available long before you face the mod’s bigger threats. Every hit lands a little harder than an Iron Sword, and unlike most weapons it will never burn up in lava.

Silver is the signature material of this horror mod, and the sword is the cheapest way to start using it. The mod also has a much stronger holy weapon, the True Silver Sword, but you earn that one as a reward from the Ritual Boss Fight rather than crafting it.

Obtaining

You craft the Silver Sword exactly like a vanilla sword: two Silver Ingots stacked over a single Stick. The only new material is Silver, which you gather by mining and smelting.

Silver Ore generates in every biome between roughly Y -48 and Y 27, so the Deepslate layer is the best place to dig for it. It is fairly common down there, and each block drops one piece of Raw Silver. You need at least an Iron Pickaxe to mine it, or the ore breaks with no drop.

Drop your Raw Silver into a Furnace to produce Silver Ingots. You can also smelt the ore block directly if you would rather skip the raw stage. Each ingot takes about twice as long to cook as iron, so fire up a few furnaces if you plan to build a full Silver kit.

Place two Silver Ingots in a vertical column with a Stick directly beneath them. One sword costs two ingots, which is just two pieces of Raw Silver. That makes the Silver Sword cheap enough to keep a spare on hand.

Silver Sword

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Usage

In combat the Silver Sword deals 6.5 attack damage and swings at 1.6 attacks per second, the same speed as an Iron or Diamond Sword. That places its damage right between the two, so you trade up from Iron without paying for Diamonds. Reach and the sweep attack against grouped enemies work just like any vanilla sword.

Its standout trait is fireproofing. The sword survives lava and fire, both in your hand and as a dropped item, so a careless step into a lava pool will not destroy it. The entire Silver tool line shares this property, which is rare for gear you can build this early.

Enchantments

The Silver Sword accepts every standard sword enchantment, and its enchantability of 14 matches Iron and beats Diamond’s 10. You tend to pull stronger enchantments from the table as a result. Its weak point is durability, so protective enchantments matter most here.

Unbreaking and Mending are the priority pair. With only 750 uses the sword wears down faster than Diamond, and Mending lets you top it back up with experience instead of recrafting it. After that, Sharpness gives the biggest combat boost.

Silver Gear and the True Silver Sword

The Silver Sword is one piece of a full Silver kit. You can build Silver Armor and the rest of the Silver Tools from the same ingots. The Silver Tools share the sword’s fireproofing, but the Silver Armor does not.

For a true endgame weapon, look to the True Silver Sword. You earn it as a reward for surviving the Ritual Boss Fight rather than crafting it. It hits far harder, never breaks, and arrives already enchanted, described in game as a holy blade that purifies evil. See the True Silver Sword article for its full stats.

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