Iron Sword

Iron Sword

The straight line between life and death runs along the edge of this blade.
Type	Sword
Damage	55 Slash
Stamina	10 primary
Block	21 block armour
Weight	-
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Forge
Station Level	2
Crafting Materials	2x Wood 20x Iron 3x Leather scraps
Biome	Swamp
Spawn ID	`spawn SwordIron`

The Iron Sword is the plain workhorse of the iron age: the blade you carry out of your first Sunken Crypt and keep swinging until you find silver in the Mountain. It deals 55 slash, and at 55 total damage it ranks 14th among swords, so it is a step on the ladder rather than the top of it.

How to Craft

Craft it at a level 2 forge from:

2x Wood: Chopped from any tree.
20x Iron: Smelted from Scrap Iron in a Smelter.
3x Leather Scraps: Drops from boars and bats, and dug out of muddy scrap piles.

Name	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Wood	All biomes	-	`spawn Wood`
Iron	Swamp	Smelter	`spawn Iron`
Leather Scraps	Meadows	-	`spawn LeatherScraps`

When to Use It

This is early game gear. Iron comes from Sunken Crypts in the Swamp, so it opens up once The Elder is down.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it 3 times after crafting, and each level needs the station built one step higher than the last. Every other figure on this page is for quality 1, so this table shows where your own copy sits:

Quality	Crafting Station	Slash	Durability	Resources
1	Forge (Level 2)	55	200	2x Wood 20x Iron 3x Leather scraps
2	Forge (Level 3)	61	250	1x Wood 10x Iron 2x Leather scraps
3	Forge (Level 4)	67	300	2x Wood 20x Iron 4x Leather scraps
4	Forge (Level 5)	73	350	4x Wood 40x Iron 8x Leather scraps

Properties

You need a Forge upgrade first. Unlike the Bronze Sword, this one needs the Forge at level 2 before you can make it at all, so in practice the Forge Cooler or the anvils are part of the recipe.

You get 57% more damage for 2 more stamina: 55 slash against bronze's 35, at 10 stamina against 8. It is the biggest single jump in the class, and it lands just as the Swamp starts asking questions.