Yes. Swords are also useful as digging tools and are fast in digging so-called snappy blocks, namely:
- Mushrooms
- Leaves, pine needles, etc.
- Grass, jungle grass, etc.
- Dry Shrub
- Flowers
- Wheat plant
- Cotton plant
- (Technical definition: Any block which is member of the group “snappy”. Usually small plants are snappy)
However, digging with swords wears them out more than by combat.
Here's the wiki page:
http://wiki.minetest.net/Sword
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