Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This stage is pretty straightforward once you figure out what to do. Stilts talents were pretty good for me here. Start the stage by stalling the enemies using Erasers, Ramen, Time Traveller, and Can Can. Ramen and Erasers can stall the angels while Time Traveller chips them down. Can Can is great when he snipes the Angel Gories because that gives you that sweet double money. In my experience, level 6 wallet works fine, so I just keep my wallet at that level instead of upgrading it more and risking running out of money when having to deal with the big guys later.
After hitting the base, lure the angels pretty close to your base and pretty much spam everything. Sprinkle a few Stilts cats in. You're going to want to focus on taking out those Angel Gories, since they are the main threats and pushing force. I like using Stilts here to mitigate some of the push power from the enemies. A surge here and there will save your base from getting demolished by the enemies, and this did indeed help me a few times. Mina will slowly chip down the enemies in the back. Once your units take out all the Angelic Gories, the stage is pretty much won from there.
Manic Eraser 44
Eraser +51
Ramen 38
Can Can 40 (Move Speed 5, Bounty)
Acrobat Cats 27+4 (Max Surge)
Time Traveller 38
Mina 30
This stage is pretty straightforward once you figure out what to do. Stilts talents were pretty good for me here. Start the stage by stalling the enemies using Erasers, Ramen, Time Traveller, and Can Can. Ramen and Erasers can stall the angels while Time Traveller chips them down. Can Can is great when he snipes the Angel Gories because that gives you that sweet double money. In my experience, level 6 wallet works fine, so I just keep my wallet at that level instead of upgrading it more and risking running out of money when having to deal with the big guys later.
After hitting the base, lure the angels pretty close to your base and pretty much spam everything. Sprinkle a few Stilts cats in. You're going to want to focus on taking out those Angel Gories, since they are the main threats and pushing force. I like using Stilts here to mitigate some of the push power from the enemies. A surge here and there will save your base from getting demolished by the enemies, and this did indeed help me a few times. Mina will slowly chip down the enemies in the back. Once your units take out all the Angelic Gories, the stage is pretty much won from there.
Manic Eraser 44
Eraser +51
Ramen 38
Can Can 40 (Move Speed 5, Bounty)
Acrobat Cats 27+4 (Max Surge)
Time Traveller 38
Mina 30




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Mostly just me rambling about the game, but I hope you can get something out of this. Originally ran for an hour long, but I edited it down to just 38 minutes :) Anyway, this is a guide for 1.7 sword towers intended for pre 1.9 runners and beginners. I know that the meta has shifted to fall towers recently, but this tower is always a fun one to do and can still get world record with good luck.
Timestamps:
[0:00-0:37] Introduction
[0:37-11:45] Tower Hole Builds
[11:45-19:40] Spider Protections
[19:40-23:59] How to Build the Tower
[23:59-29:28] Tower in Use
[29:28-38:51] Why Ladders Dont Always Catch You
Additional Information/Resources:
- The original concept of sword towers was invented by Cscuile. Check him out here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Cscuile
- For an indepth explanation of why ledge is useful, check out T_Wags video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzxaxeLwMBk
- More accurate explanation of why ladders dont work after falling from specific heights: it checks every tick for a ladder but you fall multiple blocks per tick at high speed so you can skip a ladder between ticks (Toby).
- World Record Tower (WRT) was the original name designated to this design by Cscuile, but the term sword tower has fallen into use more commonly nowadays
- This video by Thomas (https://youtu.be/glVXDr_Ck9s) used to be the go to tower strats guide, but has since become a little outdated so that is why I decided to make this video as an update to the information on that one. The video does include a nice chart of the resources needed to build the tower, so that is a useful piece of information to check.
- I only mentioned one variant of crit tower because I dont really know much about them, so keep in mind there are other versions of the tower. I may even link some once someone builds them in video format. Minecraft 1.7 Sword Tower/World Record Tower (WRT) Guide and Tutorial](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oheZQsMeL_M/mqdefault.jpg)


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Scuffed run as this was my first attempt, but stage is free anyway :)
Riceball 40
Bahamut 30
Lil macho Legs 40+9
Loincloth 28
Assassin Bear 35
Mightycat 35
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Seed: 2705762099429347854
Did my first glitched runs today, and this was the best time I got! Theres definitely still much room for improvement. If there was gold in the blacksmith, I could have saved time by not having to go into the cave looking for a zombie to trade rotten flesh to unlock the clerics first trade. I also got a little confused by the triangulation since the eye looked glitchy :p The lack of a fletcher/brown coat villager also wasted a little bit of time, and I ended up just killing chickens and getting flint for arrows instead. Definitely have gotten a lot better at the tick dupe, and I will go for sub 10 in the future :) (12:20.85) Minecraft 1.8 Any% Random Seed Speedrun [PB]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q-2FwCLIjiI/mqdefault.jpg)