Java Edition:Battle Sign
A battle sign is a sign with sword enchantments on them. They are available in the 2.0 April Fools' Update. The signs are available in all 3 versions of 2.0: blue, red, and purple.
Obtaining
April Fools'
The battle signs are sometimes dropped upon a player kill of battle sign zombie pigman. All zombie pigmen that spawn in the 2.0 updates will have the enchanted signs. There is an 8.5% chance of the pigman dropping the sign. These signs will have a much shorter attack cooldown than swords in versions 15w31a (1.9 snapshot) and later allowing for greater damage per second.
Enchantment Combos
There are 706 possible signs. The best possible combination is Looting 3, Knockback 2, Fire Aspect 2, and Smite/Bane of Arthropods/Sharpness 5, but Sharpness 5 is rarer than the Smite or Bane of Arthropods 5 variants. The rarest combination has a 1 in 166,500,000 chance of being dropped with Looting III[1]. Not all combinations are possible.
- Sharpness III-V
- Bane of Arthropod III-V
- Smite III-V
- Knockback II
- Looting II-III
- Fire Aspect I-II
Gallery
A zombie pigman wielding an enchanted sign
One of the best obtainable signs
