Gold vs Diamond

[Worse Doughnut]

Ok, I've made the following discovery recently by both testing, and by digging through the damage values listed in the minecraft.jar files.

That a diamond sword has the 1st strongest durability, but only the 2nd strongest damage per hit.

And a gold sword has the 5th strongest durability, but the 1st strongest damage per hit.

The above can be proven in Single Player by getting an "infinite tool-durability" mod and seeing how many hits it takes to kill each type of mob using a golden, and then a diamond sword. This is also proof as to why Zombie Pigmen seem to kick you ass so quickly.

And now, the point emerges. I want to know 2 things:

1) Does the above idea about golden and diamond sword make sense to you too?

2)Which sword should I give my guard-npc?

[Nozstik]

1) no. (gold is a softer metal than diamond)

2). bling bling diamond sword.

[Worse Doughnut]

Meh, too late. Besides, its not like i can afford to make the NPC's actual guards anyway.

[dragslayar]

i used a diamonds sword in pvp, and kill it two hits
but with a gold one i killed in three hits

[arin3]

You have NPCs now?
Im jealous.

[arin3]

Oh and
1) Yup
2) Diamond

[Zaneo]

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Item_Durability

Enjoy.