Warden Great Sword

Quickstart

1. Use a crafting table to forge the unique Warden's Soul.

1. Use that Soul to craft the Warden Great Sword.

1. Equip the sword in your main hand. Its action bar shows its damage, heavy-swing recovery, ability cooldowns, and controls.
2. Attack a target for a powerful heavy swing. Try falling while attacking for a critical hit.
3. Try the sword's abilities:
   • Use normally in the air for Echoing Ward.
   • Sneak-use in the air for Resonant Overload.
   • Sneak-use a block for Warden Stomp.
   • Sneak-attack an enemy for Echo Cleave.
4. For the final evolution, drop the crafted greatsword on the ground and drop eight Echo Shards within about 2.5 blocks of it. Stand within 5 blocks. The sword and shards are consumed, and you receive a Warden Long Sword and a matching Warden Shield.

For Creative testing, the main item IDs are:

• /give @s com_warden_great_sword_g4ceslsh:wardens_soul
• /give @s com_warden_great_sword_g4ceslsh:my_sword
• /give @s com_warden_great_sword_g4ceslsh:warden_long_sword
• /give @s com_warden_great_sword_g4ceslsh_warden_shield:shield

Overview

Warden Great Sword is a sculk-themed weapon progression centered on a single Warden's Soul. Forge the Soul into a colossal greatsword, master its area attacks and defensive abilities, then evolve it with Echo Shards into a longer-ranged weapon paired with a powerful shield.

All greatsword abilities are available as soon as the sword is crafted. Echo Charges are not required to unlock them.

What It Adds

The shield may appear as Warden Great Sword in the inventory, but it functions as the Warden Shield.

Crafting And Obtaining

Warden's Soul

Craft the Soul at a crafting table using Echo Shards, Sculk Catalysts, and a Heart of the Sea.

Only one usable Warden's Soul can exist in a world. The first Soul detected in a player's inventory claims the world. Later duplicate Souls fade away when detected, so use the original Soul to craft the greatsword.

Warden Great Sword

Craft the greatsword at a crafting table with the unique Soul, Netherite Blocks, Nether Stars, and Echo Shards.

The greatsword is an epic, glinting weapon that stacks to one item. It has 1,200 durability and can be repaired with Echo Shards. Each Echo Shard restores 15% of its maximum durability.

Warden Long Sword Evolution

The evolution is performed on the ground rather than at a crafting table:

1. Drop the Warden Great Sword.
2. Drop eight Echo Shards within approximately 2.5 blocks of the sword.
3. Stay within 5 blocks of the dropped sword.
4. Wait for the evolution to complete.

The eight Echo Shards and greatsword are consumed. You receive one Warden Long Sword and one Warden Shield. If your inventory is full, the rewards are dropped near you.

How To Use

Greatsword Controls

The sword's full heavy swing has approximately a 1.2-second recovery period. The action bar displays the remaining recovery time. Attacking again before the swing is ready does not produce another full heavy swing.

Echo Cleave

Sneak while attacking an enemy to release Echo Cleave around the target.

• Affects entities within 3 blocks of the target
• Deals approximately 25 damage to affected entities
• Cooldown: 8 seconds

The ability activates as part of a successful ready heavy swing.

Resonant Overload

Sneak-use the sword while aiming into the air to begin Resonant Overload.

• Charges for approximately 0.8 seconds
• Hits the first entity in your view within 4 blocks
• Deals approximately 40 damage
• Applies knockback and a short powerful Slowness effect
• Can trigger the sword's shield-breaking effect
• Cooldown: 20 seconds

Aim carefully before the charge finishes.

Warden Stomp

Sneak-use the sword on a block to create a sculk shockwave.

• Affects entities within 4 blocks
• Deals approximately 14 damage per pulse
• Releases two pulses, with the second pulse arriving about 1.5 seconds later
• Applies Slowness and Mining Fatigue
• Cooldown: 18 seconds

This ability is useful for controlling groups around you.

Echoing Ward

Use the sword normally to activate Echoing Ward.

For 6 seconds:

• Incoming damage is reduced by approximately 25%
• About 10% of incoming melee damage is reflected to the attacker

Cooldown: 25 seconds.

Heavy Combat Effects

The greatsword is especially effective against armored enemies:

• Targets wearing armor take approximately 4 additional damage.
• Armor pieces suffer additional durability damage on each successful hit.
• Fully timed falling attacks receive a critical bonus.
• Attacks against enemies using a normal shield can trigger a shield break every 6 seconds. The break damages the shield, knocks the target back, and applies Slowness and Mining Fatigue for 3 seconds.

Warden Long Sword

The evolved Warden Long Sword deals 22 damage and has two extra blocks of reach, allowing targeted strikes out to approximately 5 blocks.

It has no durability component and cannot break from normal use.

Long Sword Controls

These controls also work when using the sword on a block.

Extended Reach Strike

Use the Long Sword while standing, without sneaking, sprinting, or jumping. It attacks the first entity in your view within 5 blocks for 22 damage.

Warden Stance

Sneak-use the Long Sword to affect nearby entities within 10 blocks.

• Blinds nearby players for 5 seconds
• Damages nearby shields heavily
• Shield users receive Slowness and Mining Fatigue for 5 seconds
• Cooldown: 6 seconds

Fear

Use the Long Sword while jumping or airborne.

Nearby entities within 10 blocks receive:

• Blindness for 5 seconds
• Slowness for 6 seconds
• Weakness for 6 seconds
• A knockback impulse away from you

Cooldown: 25 seconds.

Call Pray

Sprint-use the Long Sword to seek the weakest living entity within 25 blocks.

If a valid target is found:

1. You teleport to that target.
2. Nearby entities around the target are afflicted for 15 seconds with Nausea, Darkness, Blindness, Weakness, and Slowness.

Cooldown: 40 seconds. If no living target is within range, the ability does not activate.

Warden Shield

The matching Warden Shield is created automatically during the Long Sword evolution.

• Can be equipped in the offhand
• Blocks damage while held up
• Provides Resistance I while it is in the offhand
• Has extremely high durability and continually restores its durability while held
• Can also be repaired with Planks

Equip it in your offhand to combine its protection with the Long Sword's extended reach and abilities.

Progression And Strategy

1. Gather the rare ingredients for the Warden's Soul before crafting anything else.
2. Claim the world's single Soul and use it for the Warden Great Sword.
3. Use the greatsword's normal attacks against armored enemies and shield users.
4. Use Echoing Ward when surrounded or preparing for a dangerous engagement.
5. Combine Resonant Overload with Warden Stomp to control enemies at different ranges.
6. Save eight Echo Shards for the final evolution when you are ready to give up the greatsword.
7. After evolving, keep the Warden Shield in your offhand. Use Warden Stance against shield-bearing groups, Fear to disable nearby enemies, and Call Pray to teleport into a weakened group for a devastating attack.