Axe

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

Bonus chest
A bonus chest may contain wooden and/or stone axes.

Trading
Iron and diamond axes can be bought from Weapon Smith villagers for emeralds. Diamond axes are enchanted with a level 5-19 enchantment.

Usage
The axe is used to break wooden items faster.

An axe can also be used as a weapon, in which role it deals less damage than a sword made of the same material. Usage of the axe as a weapon will deal double durability damage to the axe.

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

Trivia

 * Axes in Minecraft Pocket Edition can kill zombies with three hits.
 * In the language files, axes are referred to Hatchets.