Talk:Pickaxe

Gold Pixaxe - Useless?
Is there any reason to ever make a gold pickaxe? Its durability is nearly half that of a wood one, and there are a good many blocks that it can't mine at all. All of the blocks that can't be mined with a gold pickaxe (with one exception, obsidian, which is diamond only) can be mined with an iron pickaxe. I just found this odd and was wondering if there's an explanation. Superfield 19:07, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * All gold tools are remarkably less useful. As of a recent update, though, they do perform their respective actions faster than even their diamond counterparts. Overall, gold is better just used as a decoration. Also, gold pickaxes can't mine on equal level with a iron, or even stone for that matter. It can only mine smooth stone, cobblestone, and coal. -Lucien 19:20, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Only useful on servers which have a plugin that sets tools as infinite durability, or when inventory editing, giving yourself stacked golden pickaxes... Calinou 16:45, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Just fyi: The time it takes to dig for the 3 gold divided by the number of uses equals about 94 seconds per broken block! So crafting the gold tools takes effectively more time than destroying obsidian by hand (50 s) (if you don't happen to have tons of useless gold lying around anyway). They might also come in handy where the digging has to be really quick and preparation time doesnt matter, like breaking into an enemy base or digging right below a lava lake.Pystro 23:56, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I have to say that Gold tools/Armor has irony written all over it. Well...isn't gold supposed to be hard? Well, yeah, I heard of some Gold Bricks being fragile in real life banks. But still, If you have Mo' Creatures Mod, They will come handy in killing Werewolves, as they can only be hurt if Gold Tools are smashed rapidly on their furry skulls.BlockBarracade 20:35, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

The table on this page conflicts with the "gold" article, which states that gold is the fastest mining tool. Can someone who knows for definite what this fact should be correct the requisite page?

Why still a stub?
Hm, could someone tell me how to expand that page? For me it's not that stubby ;) /vote for un-stubbing. -- Vholu 21:07, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

It's no longer a stub ;) Calinou 16:46, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Pickaxes Required?
"Pickaxes are the only technically required wood tools in the game. This is because they can mine stone; a much better tool building material. Therefore, you really only ever need to have 1 wood pickaxe." In my opinion, this statement is untrue. You need not have a pickaxe — you could find a nice cave and block it off with dirt. Dirt doesn't require a pickaxe to mine.
 * That sentence is probably trying to state that, because stone is better than wood and both can be found very easily, you're better off making one wood pickaxe, exhausting it by collecting stone, then only using stone(or better) tools from there on out. Alphap 00:08, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * By finding a dungeon near the surface with enough metal in the chests, one can start with a metal pickaxe instead of a wooden one. Shark 05:43, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Or, TNT (Which can be obtained with only a fist) can destroy blocks while turning them into harvestable blocks... that or creeper explosions. Darkid 19:19, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * ^ second that. I have successfully used creepers to get both cobblestone AND coal, skipping the need for a wood pickaxe altogether. More convoluted than necessary? Probably. More interesting? certainly. 116.102.19.7 06:23, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Ice
does anyone know the speed of pickaxes breaking ice? Ecreme 18:22, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Gold Pickaxes
Could the "gold" column be moved to the left of the wood one? In order of, say, ability to sucessfully mine things/durability.

Red/Gray/"*" marking
Whatever these meant is gone... this means we have a wonderfully colored chart which is useless. Could someone figure out what they mean? Darkid 20:56, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Look above the table to see the meaning of those. Shark 05:43, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The explanation is wrong... -- TheKax 14:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Obsidian pickaxe?
Apparently, it's possible to make Obsidian pickaxes by smelting blocks of obsidian in a furnace to get obsidian ingots, then to used to craft obsidian pickaxes (which are tougher than diamond pickaxes).

I think this deserves mention in the pickaxe article. TofuMan 11:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I think your trollery deserves it's own troll page for being a troll. No you can't. Darkid 11:15, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Well excuuuse me for being wrong, but I'm new to Minecraft and I saw it happen in a video on YouTube. It was only afterwards that I was told it must have been a hack, though there was no mention of a hack in the comments I read. How the heck is that trolling? TofuMan 04:54, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

It isn't trolling, but it is definitely idiotic. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by DinoFight (Talk . Please sign your posts with !

I Have Seen Mods that let you do this but it's not in minecraft f'real.

A big correction I made
I don't know who said it or why, but someone had pit under the Speed and Durability chart "Obsidian and Redstone take a long time to harvest because the game does not recognize them as harvestable. This is probably a bug."

Whoever wrote that is wrong and stupid. I deleted it. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by DinoFight (Talk . Please sign your posts with !

Iron block, Glowstone
It is possible to sucessfully extact an iron block using a stone pickaxe. I just did recently. Also, you don't need to take 7.5 seconds to mine Glowstone by hand. By hand, i take about 1.5 second... C ali nou - talk × contribs » 18:27, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

1.9 Prerelease 6 values?
Apparently in 1.9pre6 the mining speed of redstone and obsidian has been sped up. Can someone get the exact values? I have also noticed that Stone Bricks are not included in the table, is it possible that that could be updated?

Not required!?!?
how are pickaxes not required to advance further in the game, if the game is called MINEcraft? I don't get it, especially if you were to go to the Nether, which cause you would need a diamond pick, to mine obsidian, and make that into a portal... Someone please change it, it's been there forvever. 184.190.209.208 02:34, 15 November 2011 (UTC)GuyStupois
 * One could find a bucket in a dungeon, then make a nether portal mold. With the bucket fill the mold with lava and turn it into obsidian with water. Also then kill some blazes and endermen with a wooden or iron sword. Activate a end portal, kill the ender dragon and win the game. All this can be done without a pickaxe.--BTH 06:50, 18 November 2011 (UTC)