Pirate's Sword

Pirate's Sword

Type	Weapon
Type	Sword
Level	2
Damage	8-14
Crit Chance	2%
Stats	Speed (+2)
Location	Adventurer's Guild, The Mines
Price	850g

The Pirate's Sword is the speed option on Marlon's early shelf. It hits for 8 to 14, which is nothing remarkable, and it adds two points of swing speed, which at that stage of a save is worth more than a couple of extra points of damage. Reaching the twenty-fifth floor of the Mines puts it in stock for 850g, and from then on it stays available, so it is the sword most farmers buy when the Rusty Sword starts to feel like a stick. The description claims a pirate once owned it, which is as much backstory as the game offers. Its real job is carrying a farm from the first stone floors down to the frost.

Location

Marlon stocks it at the Adventurer's Guild once the twenty-fifth floor of the Mines has been unlocked. The Guild opens in the afternoon and closes in the small hours, and it is shut on most festival days.

The shelf around it is worth comparing. A Wooden Blade costs 250g, a Silver Saber 750g, the Pirate's Sword 850g and a Cutlass 1,500g, and the Cutlass is the next real step up with the same speed bonus and a wider damage band. A farm in a hurry buys the Pirate's Sword and saves towards the Cutlass.

On a save that chose remixed mine rewards, the chest on floor fifty can hold the sword as well, which is the one way it arrives free.

Stats

Eight to fourteen damage reliably kills the monsters of the upper Mines. Green Slimes, Bugs, Grubs and Cave Flies all fall in one or two hits, and the swing recovers quickly enough that two or three can be dealt with in a row.

Those two points of speed are the whole argument. Silver Saber hits slightly harder for less money and adds a point of defence instead, and in practice the faster blade clears a floor more quickly because fewer monsters get a hit in while the farmer is waiting to swing again.

Knockback sits at the standard setting, so a struck slime is pushed back a step and remains in range. Critical hits stay at the common two percent with a triple multiplier, which makes this a weapon of volume rather than spikes.

The blocking stance is worth learning on a sword this cheap. Holding the alternate attack soaks an incoming hit and knocks bats out of the air, and the floors from thirty-one onwards are full of bats.

Notes

Marlon buys weapons as well as selling them, so the 850g is partly recoverable when the sword is replaced. Nothing in the early game stays useful for long, and the Pirate's Sword is firmly outclassed by the time the lava floors appear.

Level two leaves the innate enchantments wide open, since those only attach to weapons at level ten or lower. That makes the sword an unlikely candidate for the Forge, because a farm with volcano access has far better blades, but a farmer who likes the look of it can forge Ruby three times and add roughly a third to its damage.

Rock Crabs are the one early monster no sword can start a fight with. A crab hiding under its shell takes no damage at all, and a tap from the pickaxe is what gets it moving again, at which point the Pirate's Sword handles it easily. A bomb will strip the shell off entirely.

All Swords

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	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