Crafting the Vampiric Blade and Wither's Bane

Match the Shaped Grids

Vampiric Blade and Wither's Bane are both shaped crafting recipes. To make either one, open a crafting table and arrange the required ingredients in the exact pattern shown for that sword. The result slot will only produce the item when the grid matches precisely.

Craft them separately. Complete the Vampiric Blade, remove it from the result slot, then reset the grid for Wither's Bane. Do not try to combine the two layouts.

Order of Operations

These two swords sit in the same nine-item group as Aether's Guard, Crystaline Blade, Dawnstar, Draconic Blade, Eye-end Blade, Glacial Edge, and Gladiolus. All nine are shaped recipes, so once you learn the grid for one, the process for the rest is identical — only the ingredients and layout change.

If you are building toward a larger goal, check whether Vampiric Blade or Wither's Bane is used as a component in another recipe before you commit the materials. Crafting the one you actually need first saves resources. Keep a stock of the base ingredients near your table so you can re-craft either sword without another gathering trip. Because the recipes are shaped, always verify the grid before pulling the result — a wrong arrangement produces nothing.