# God Sword: The Ideal Sword Enchantments

_Published September 14, 2026_

Sharpness, Looting, Sweeping Edge, Unbreaking, and Mending all stack on one sword with zero conflicts — here's the full build.

Unlike a pickaxe, a sword's best-in-slot enchantments don't actually compete with each other — you can stack nearly everything onto a single blade. Players commonly just call the result the **"God Sword."**

## Sharpness V (or a specialist swap)

Sharpness adds flat bonus damage against everything. It's mutually exclusive with **Smite** (bonus vs. undead — zombies, skeletons, the wither) and **Bane of Arthropods** (bonus vs. spiders and silverfish, plus a slow effect), because all three occupy the same "damage type" exclusion group. Sharpness V is the correct generalist pick for a main sword; keep a dedicated Smite sword if you're grinding an XP farm built on zombies or skeletons, since the specialist enchant out-damages Sharpness against its target type.

## Looting III

Increases mob drop quantities and, for several mobs, raises the odds of rare drops that are already technically possible but vanishingly unlikely without it — zombies have roughly a 0.83% base chance to drop each of iron, a carrot, or a potato, and each Looting level adds +1% to that; endermen's ender pearl count similarly climbs with Looting level. Essential for any farm you intend to stand at and kill mobs manually.

## Sweeping Edge III

Sword-only. Boosts the damage of the sweep attack (the small AoE hit you land on nearby mobs when your main swing connects) up to matching your main-hand hit, turning sword combat against groups into genuine crowd control instead of single-target chipping.

## Unbreaking III + Mending

Standard pairing: reduced durability loss rate, then XP-funded repair.

## The God Sword

**Diamond Sword:** Sharpness V, Looting III, Sweeping Edge III, Unbreaking III, Mending I

None of these five conflict — Sharpness only excludes the other damage-type enchants, and Looting/Sweeping Edge/Unbreaking/Mending have no exclusions listed at all. This is the one "everything at once" build in the whole game.

[Build the God Sword →](https://anvilcalc.com/#eyJpIjoiZGlhbW9uZF9zd29yZCIsImUiOltdLCJwIjowLCJuIjoiIiwidCI6W1sic2hhcnBuZXNzIiw1XSxbImxvb3RpbmciLDNdLFsic3dlZXBpbmdfZWRnZSIsM10sWyJ1bmJyZWFraW5nIiwzXSxbIm1lbmRpbmciLDFdXX0)

**Give this build in-game**

Java 26.3:

```
/give @s minecraft:diamond_sword[enchantments={"minecraft:looting":3,"minecraft:mending":1,"minecraft:sharpness":5,"minecraft:sweeping_edge":3,"minecraft:unbreaking":3}]
```

Bedrock 26.60:

```
/give @s diamond_sword
/enchant @s looting 3
/enchant @s mending 1
/enchant @s sharpness 5
/enchant @s unbreaking 3
```

Not in this edition, left out: sweeping_edge.

See also [Best Sword Enchantments](/guides/best-sword-enchantments), which compares every sword enchantment side by side with the Java and Bedrock differences, and [Best Enchantments in Minecraft](/guides/best-enchantments-minecraft) for every other item.

To see where this build sits among all your gear, see [Minecraft Enchanting Order](/guides/minecraft-enchanting-order).

## Frequently asked questions

**Can Sharpness and Smite go on the same sword?**

No. Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods all sit in the same damage-type exclusion group along with Breach and Density — the game only allows one enchantment from that group on an item at a time.

**Why would someone choose a dedicated Smite sword instead of just using Sharpness?**

Against its specific target type — undead mobs like zombies, skeletons, and the wither — Smite out-damages Sharpness at the same level. That makes a dedicated Smite sword worth keeping if you're grinding an XP farm built around undead, even though Sharpness remains the better generalist pick for a main sword.

**Does Looting affect ender pearl drops from endermen?**

Yes, though not the base chance of getting a pearl at all — each level of Looting raises how many pearls you can get per kill, up to 4 at Looting III versus just 1 without it, which roughly quadruples your average yield over a farming session.

**Can one sword really have Sharpness, Looting, Sweeping Edge, Unbreaking, and Mending all at the same time?**

Yes — this is the one build on the whole site with no internal conflicts at all. Sharpness only excludes the other damage-type enchantments (Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and so on), and Looting, Sweeping Edge, Unbreaking, and Mending don't exclude anything, including each other.

**Can Sweeping Edge go on an axe too?**

No, it's sword-only. Axes get their own separate moveset and don't have access to the Sweeping Edge enchantment at all.