- alternatively, if you find
Bloodwood tree in Nether, you can create
Bloodwood sword which has better durability (350) and attack damage (+7)
- you'll have to get obsidian, either mine in somewhere underground (or if you find pool of lava on the ground and have water bucket, use use it to create it) or create
Igneous Extruder, select obsidian and fill it with lava and water
- create nether portal and go to nether
- mine some Nether Quartz
- craft some Nether Quartz swords from AE2 (+6 attack damage, 250 durability created by 2 pieces of Nether Quartz and stick)
- create this:
( you will need: 3 chests, 2
transfer nodes (items),
filter,
Rationing or
Hyper Rationing Pipe
for filter: look up how to make it inverted and fuzzy for medatada and nbt and place Nether Quartz sword into it (this way any Nether Quartz Sword will be blacklisted and transfer node will not move it)
chests:
1. leave it empty
2. place all Nether Quartz Swords in it
3. mob loot will be transfered here so that
transfer nodes:
1. put
Rationing or
Hyper Rationing Pipe into one of the 6 upgrade slots
2. place the filter here - does have to be inverted and fuzzy (for metadata and nbt) and contain Nether Quartz sword)
Swords from chest n.2 will go to chest n.1. Hyper / Rationing pipe in transfer node n.1 does allow only 1 stack to be transfered so if there is exactly same sword, it wont transfer any more of them (this way it won't fill chest n.1 with swords). As soon as mob is killed there won't be exactly same sword as in transfer node so it'll put a new sword into chest n.1. Now you'll have 2 swords in it. One is being used while second one is waiting to its turn. As soon as the first one break, the second one will be used. As soon as the second one get used, transfer node n.1 will place another sword into it. This will work until there is no swords in chest n.2. Transfer node n.2 will be moving everything that isn't Nether Quartz sword into chest n.3 so that it can work without getting cluttered with mob drops.
Later when you'll get better sword you can get rid of the chest n.2 and transfer node n.1. Also don't forget do add it into filter in transfer node n.2.