Pickaxe

Pickaxes are one of the most commonly used tools in the game, being required to mine all ores and many other types of block. Different qualities of pickaxe are required to successfully harvest certain ores and blocks. For example, diamonds break all ore very fast(see below on the Speed and Durability table).

Crafting
Pickaxes are crafted using 2 sticks and 3 units of a tool material:

Speed and Durability
The following table shows the time it takes to break each type of block. Values marked with an asterisk and a red background indicate that it cannot be harvested by that quality of tool. (Note that some blocks, like Ice, don't drop anything even when they are "harvested.") If there is no tool that helps speed up mining the block, the row will have a grey background.

Trivia

 * Since the Beta 1.2 update, tools have increased durability and gold tools destroy blocks faster, making them no longer completely useless.
 * Notch said pigmen would hold iron pickaxes in the future, alongside Iron Swords.
 * The Pickaxe is featured in the "Time to Mine!" and the "Getting an Upgrade" achievements.

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