Axe

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

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.

Usage
An ахе is used to break wood and blocks derived from it faster than by using other tools.

Weapon
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. They deal different damage based on the type:

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 the following damage:

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

Enchantments
An axe can receive the following enchantments:


 * Fortune
 * Silk Touch
 * Efficiency
 * Unbreaking
 * Sharpness
 * Smite
 * Bane of Arthropods

Trivia

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