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)

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.

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.