Silver sword is heavily overpriced

[GladiatoR]

Crafting and fully upgrading silver sword costs not only 160 silver, but also 23 iron. Spirit damage isn't really worth it since in Mountains and Plains it only affects bats, growth and Yagluth, also seems that it affects no one in Mistlands.
For example, two-handed axes, sledges and Frostner are all costs 120 bars of respective metal.

[Lucidess]

Spirit damage also affects Skeletons and Draugur

Considering how easy it is to get Silver compared to Bronze and Iron, this is not an issue to me.

[UlV]

You don't have to get the sword you got plenty of arsenal to go with each with there own taste, but if one's desire to get the sword, for him it will not gonna be a problem for them

[Rhapsody]

It really depends on the world seed and player experience and choices.

IMO silver sword is overpriced since there's no real use for it in the game. Only enemy in the game where I'd use it over Frostner is Yagluth, but the only advantage is attack speed, and I think the secondary attack with Frostner is more effective DPS than the full attack combo with sword.

But the biggest issue is that more economical and cheaper swords exist in every other tier/biome as well. Silver sword had that anti-undead appeal while the only higher damage alternative was the pure-slash damage black metal sword, but that's not the case anymore with the mistwalker sword which has better damage type split as well as utility effect.

tl;dr it's probably not worth upgrading the silver sword at this point, it's only good for mounting on your wall.

[Kursor1]

I'm actually trying swords finally, and the silver sword is working well for me so far. (Not at black metal yet)

[6h0$t942]

I like the silver sword aesthetically. Could just be optical illusion but i think its' reach is longer than black metal as well. Unrestricted portals mod would help with the pseudo grind imho. My view is that your irl time has value so if you already sailed to an island and braved the danger just portal it back. Typically I balance out the resources i use between tiers, only grabbing one from each. If you're metagaming/optimizing/being boring you take bronze mace for bonemass, just get iron axe for iron honestly, then frostner for silver age.