Axe

Trivia

• Axes used to be double sided in Indev (see gallery).

Info

Axe

Type	Tools
Durability	Wood: 60 uses Stone: 132 uses Iron: 251 uses Golden: 33 uses Diamond: 1562 uses
Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
Data values	See Data values
Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	See Data values

Axes are tools used to ease the process of collecting wood Wood Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 10 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same species only Flammable Yes Experience Smelted: 0.15 Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article based items.

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Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe	Description
Any Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting or Cobblestoneor Iron Ingotor Gold Ingotor Diamond+ Stick
Damaged Matching Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Mobs

A vindicator spawns with an iron axe, and has a 8.5% (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) chance of dropping it upon death by player. It will usually have some level of damage, and will not be enchanted.

Trading

Weapon Smith villagers sell iron axes for 6⃢₀ₓ8 emeralds as one of their initial tier trades, and enchanted diamond axes for 9⃢₀ₓ12 emeralds as one of their third tier trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5⃢₀ₓ19.

Natural generation

Wooden axes can be found in 75.0% of bonus chests in groups of 1.

Stone axes can be found in 14.9% of igloo chests and 25.0% of bonus chests in groups of 1.

In woodland mansions, a room can appear that has a chest always containing an Efficiency I iron axe.

Chopping wood

An ␰⑅␵ is used to break wood Wood Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 10 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same species only Flammable Yes Experience Smelted: 0.15 Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article and blocks derived from it faster than by using other tools. An axe uses 1 durability to break a block. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.

Speed and durability

The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality axes perform.

Axes	Hand	Wood	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Golden
Durability	⃢⋆ⅾ	60	132	251	1562	33
Wooden Door	4.5 s	2.25 s	1.15 s	0.75 s	0.6 s	0.4 s
Wooden Trapdoor	4.5 s	2.25 s	1.15 s	0.75 s	0.6 s	0.4 s
Chest	3.75 s	1.9 s	0.95 s	0.65 s	0.5 s	0.35 s
Crafting Table	3.75 s	1.9 s	0.95 s	0.65 s	0.5 s	0.35 s
Fence	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Fence Gate	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Jukebox	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wood	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wooden Slabs	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wooden Stairs	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Bookshelf	2.25 s	1.15 s	0.6 s	0.4 s	0.3 s	0.2 s
Jack o`Lantern	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 s
Pumpkin	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 s
Sign	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 s
Note Block	1.2 s	0.6 s	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Wooden Pressure Plate	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.1 s
Cocoa	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s
Daylight Sensor	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s
Huge Mushrooms	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s
Vines	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s

Computer edition

Damage done when using an axe as a weapon is more than that of a sword, though they take longer than a sword to recover. Axes take 2 damage when used as a weapon, and deal different amount of damage and have different cooldown times based on the type:

1. ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is (Durability / 2) ⃗ Damage per hit = Lifetime damage minimum. The durability is halved because axes take double durability when used as a weapon. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes the axe is at maximum charge

Disabling a shield

Attacking a shield user with an axe has a chance to disable the use of the shield for 5 seconds. The base chance is 25%, plus 5 percentage points per level of Efficiency on the axe, plus 75 percentage points if attacking while sprinting.

Console and Pocket editions

In the Console and Pocket editions, axes always attack instantly, and do not do as much damage as a sword:

Enchantments

An axe can receive the following enchantments:

• Fortune
• Silk Touch
• Efficiency
• Unbreaking
• Sharpness
• Smite
• Bane of Arthropods
• Mending
• Curse of Vanishing

1. ↑ ^{a b} Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Only available using enchanted books and an anvil

Fuel

Wooden axes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per axe.

Smelting ingredient

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nuggetor Gold Nugget	Iron Axeor Golden Axe+ Any fuel

Data values

Achievements

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History

Indev
0.31			Jan. 11, 2010		Added wooden and stone axes.
			Jan. 29, 2010		Added crafting recipes for wooden and stone axes.
					Added iron, diamond and golden axes.
			Jan. 31, 2010		Axes now take damage.
					Axes are now tiered - better axes last longer.
Beta
1.2					Gold tools, including axes, remove blocks faster than diamond tools.
1.5					Axes deal more damage to mobs and players than by hand, which means of all non-weapon tools, axes deal the most damage.
1.8					The damage increase was reverted.
Official release
1.3.1			12w16a		Wooden and stone axes are now found in the new bonus chests.
			12w18a		Wooden axes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
			12w21a		Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond axe for 9–11 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–7 emeralds.
1.8			14w02a		Weapon smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond axe for 9–12 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–8 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond axes are no longer sold.
1.9			15w34a		Axes now use the attack speed combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for an axe is 1.2 seconds.
			15w34b		Axes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter.
			15w34c		Axes do 4 more damage than previously
					Axes now have an attack speed of 0.85.
					Axes can temporarily disable shield use.
			15w35a		Damage reduced by one and speed increased to 0.9.
			15w37a		Stone and diamond axes now both do 9 damage, instead of the previous 8 and 10 respectively.
					Axes now have attack speed based on the tier, with wooden and stone having a speed of 0.8, iron having a speed of 0.9, and diamond having a speed of 1
			15w43a		Stone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests.
			15w44a		Decreased average yield of stone and wooden axes from bonus chests.
1.11.1			16w50a		Golden and iron axes now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added stone axes.
0.3.0					Added wooden axes.
0.3.2					Added iron, diamond and golden axes.
0.11.0			build 11		All axes are now available in the creative inventory.
			build 12		Removed all axes from creative.
			build 13		Re-added axes to creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Iron and golden axes are now smeltable.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1		Added axes (all five types).
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Iron and golden axes are now smeltable.

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Sources

Axes are made from 5 different materials (from lowest to highest Durability):

• Gold
• Wood
• Stone
• Iron
• Diamond

Wooden axes appear in most Bonus Chest, which also have stone axes on occasion. Stone axes also appear in some Igloo basements, and an Efficiency I iron axe appears in some Woodland Mansion rooms. Weapon Smith Villagers sell iron axes for 6-8 emeralds, and enchanted diamond axes for 9-12 emeralds. Alternatively, they can be made in a Crafting Table in the following arrangement:

As a tool

The primary role of an Axe is to quicken the collection of wood and wood-type blocks. The Player may choose to do this by hand, but at a severely reduced pace. The most common type of crafted axe is probably the iron axe, as iron is a strong material that can be found in abundance. A gold axe can mine wood and wood items the quickest by far, but it has much lower durability.

What it can cut

• Wood
• Wooden Planks, Stairs and Slabs
• Crafting Tables
• Wooden Doors and Trapdoors
• Wooden Fences and fence Gates
• Wooden Buttons
• Wooden Pressure plates
• Daylight Detector
• Signs
• Chests and Trapped Chest

As a Weapon

Axes deal more damage than Swords, so the axe is a viable alternative as a weapon. However, there are three drawbacks to using it as a weapon, opposed to a tool:

• Attacking with an axe (or using it to mine a non-wood block) will cause it to take double durability damage.
• They require an anvil to enchant with weapon-based enchantments.
• The cooldown for an axe is longer than that of a sword.