Axe

Axe

Type	Tools
Durability	Wood: 60 uses Stone: 132 uses Iron: 251 uses Golden: 33 uses Diamond: 1562 uses
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

Axes are tools used to ease the process of collecting wood based items.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Damaged Matching Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Mobs

Main article: Drops § Equipped items

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 6–8 emeralds as one of their initial tier trades, and enchanted diamond axes for 9–12 emeralds as one of their third tier trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.

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.

Usage

Chopping wood

An ахе is used to break wood 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	∞	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	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
Banner	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 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

Weapon

Java 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:

Material	Wooden	Gold	Stone	Iron	Diamond
Attack damage	7 ()	7 ()	9 ()	9 ()	9 ()
Attack Speed	0.8	1.0	0.8	0.9	1.0
Recovery time	1.25 s	1.0 s	1.25 s	1.11 s	1.0 s
DPS	5.6	7.0	7.2	8.1	9.0
Lifetime damage inflicted	210 ( × 105)	119 ( × 59.5)	594 ( × 297)	1134 ( × 567)	7029 ( × 3514.5)

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:

Attack damage
4 ()	5 ()	6 ()	7 ()

Enchantments

An axe can receive the following enchantments:

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

Fuel

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

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget	Iron Axe or Golden Axe + Any fuel

Data values

Item	ID Name	Numerical ID
Wooden Axe	wooden_axe	271
Stone Axe	stone_axe	275
Iron Axe	iron_axe	258
Diamond Axe	diamond_axe	279
Golden Axe	golden_axe	286

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Pocket	Nintendo
	MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe and one hoe).		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze

History

Indev
0.31			January 11, 2010		Added wooden and stone axes.
			January 29, 2010		Added crafting recipes for wooden and stone axes.
					Added iron, diamond and golden axes.
			January 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.

Issues

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Trivia

• In the language files, axes are referred to as Hatchets.

See also

• Pickaxe

References

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