Ossified Blade
| Ossified Blade | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Weapon |
| Type | Sword |
| Level | 6 |
| Damage | 26-42 |
| Crit Chance | 2% |
| Stats | Speed (−2); Defense (+1); Weight (+2) |
| Location | The Mines |
The Ossified Blade is a slab of sharpened bone and it swings like one. Damage of 26 to 42 puts it among the better swords of the lava floors, with a point of defence and enough weight to push monsters back, and the price is two points of swing speed. What sets it apart is how it arrives: it is one of the few weapons in the game that can drop out of a Mystery Box, so a farmer who has never reached floor ninety can still end up holding it. The other route is the chest on floor ninety itself, on farms that chose remixed mine rewards at the start. Either way it tends to appear unannounced, which is part of its charm.
Location
Mystery Boxes are the interesting route. Clint cracks them open at the Blacksmith for a small fee, and the boxes themselves turn up almost everywhere: in fishing treasure chests, from panning, by digging artifact spots, from monsters and broken crates, by shaking or felling trees, and from the Calico Egg Merchant at the Desert Festival. Reading the Book Of Mysteries makes them appear more often. Golden Mystery Boxes hold the blade as well.
The box supply does not open immediately. Mr. Qi announces them in a cutscene after fifty days in the valley, or after the second Prize Ticket is collected from the billboard, and nothing before that will produce one.
The chest on floor ninety is the other source, and only on a save using remixed mine rewards. That chest normally holds the Obsidian Edge, so the Ossified Blade is one of the alternatives the remix shuffles in.
Stats
Twenty-six to forty-two is a dependable band for its depth. It sits just under the Obsidian Edge's range and just over the Yeti Tooth's lower figures, so all three are reasonable choices for the same stretch of the Mines.
Two points of lost speed are the real cost, and they put the blade in the same bracket as the Iron Edge rather than the quick swords. Each swing is followed by a visible pause, so the Ossified Blade wants to be used on monsters that die in one hit.
Two points of weight provide the compensation. Knockback is a little above the standard setting, enough to shift a Lava Bat out of the farmer's face and buy back some of the time the swing cost.
A single point of defence trims every hit taken. Combined with the knockback it makes the blade noticeably safer to hold than its damage alone suggests, which is the pattern of every heavy sword in the game.
Critical hits are plain, at two percent with a triple multiplier, so this is a weapon of ordinary heavy blows.
Notes
The Bone Sword is the blade's obvious cousin and its opposite. Both are made of bone, but the Bone Sword is light and quick with four points of speed, while the Ossified Blade is slow and heavy. Skeletons drop the first and Marlon sells it; the second comes out of a box.
Emerald at the Forge is the natural first gem, since two or three points of speed per forge level cancel the blade's one weakness outright. Topaz adds further defence for anyone leaning into its heavy character.
Level six also keeps the innate enchantments in play, as those only attach at level ten or lower. An extra point or two of defence suits a sword that is already asking the farmer to stand still and take a hit between swings.
All Swords
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Type | Level | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Sword | 
|
Sword | 5 | 20-30 |
| Claymore | 
|
Sword | 5 | 20-32 |
| Cutlass | 
|
Sword | 3 | 9-17 |
| Dark Sword | 
|
Sword | 9 | 30-45 |
| Dragontooth Cutlass | 
|
Sword | 13 | 75-90 |
| Dwarf Sword | 
|
Sword | 13 | 65-75 |
| Forest Sword | 
|
Sword | 3 | 8-18 |
| Galaxy Sword | 
|
Sword | 13 | 60-80 |
| Haley's Iron | 
|
Sword | 6 | 30-45 |
| Holy Blade | 
|
Sword | 7 | 20-27 |
| Infinity Blade | 
|
Sword | 17 | 80-100 |
| Insect Head | 
|
Sword | 6 | 20-30 |
| Iron Edge | 
|
Sword | 3 | 12-25 |
| Lava Katana | 
|
Sword | 10 | 55-64 |
| Leah's Whittler | 
|
Sword | 6 | 30-45 |
| Meowmere | 
|
Sword | 4 | 20-20 |
| Neptune's Glaive | 
|
Sword | 5 | 18-35 |
| Obsidian Edge | 
|
Sword | 6 | 30-45 |
| Ossified Blade | 
|
Sword | 6 | 26-42 |
| Pirate's Sword | 
|
Sword | 2 | 8-14 |
| Rapier | 
|
Sword | 4 | 15-25 |
| Rusty Sword | 
|
Sword | 1 | 2-5 |
| Silver Saber | 
|
Sword | 2 | 8-15 |
| Steel Falchion | 
|
Sword | 8 | 28-46 |
| Steel Smallsword | 
|
Sword | 1 | 4-8 |
| Tempered Broadsword | 
|
Sword | 7 | 29-44 |
| Templar's Blade | 
|
Sword | 5 | 22-29 |
| Wooden Blade | 
|
Sword | 1 | 3-7 |
| Yeti Tooth | 
|
Sword | 7 | 26-42 |