Axes are tools used to ease the process of collecting wood based items.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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| Damaged Matching Axe | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Mobs
A vindicator spawns with an iron axe, and has a 8.5% (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) chance of dropping it upon death by player. It will usually have some level of damage, and will not be enchanted.
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.
Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Wooden Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 75% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Wooden Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 75% |
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Stone Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 25% |
| Igloo | Chest | 1 | 14.7% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 1 | 30.2% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Stone Axe | Bonus chest | Chest | 1 | 25% |
| Igloo | Chest | 1 | 14.7% | |
| Underwater ruins | Small ruins chest | 1 | 30.2% | |
In woodland mansions, a room can appear that has a chest always containing an Efficiency I iron axe.
Usage
Chopping wood
An ахе is used to break wood and blocks derived from it faster than by using other tools. An axe uses 1 durability to break a block. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.
Speed and durability
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality axes perform.
| Axes | Hand | Wood | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Golden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durability | ∞ | 60 | 132 | 251 | 1562 | 33 |
| Wooden Door | 4.5 s | 2.25 s | 1.15 s | 0.75 s | 0.6 s | 0.4 s |
| Wooden Trapdoor | 4.5 s | 2.25 s | 1.15 s | 0.75 s | 0.6 s | 0.4 s |
| Chest | 3.75 s | 1.9 s | 0.95 s | 0.65 s | 0.5 s | 0.35 s |
| Crafting Table | 3.75 s | 1.9 s | 0.95 s | 0.65 s | 0.5 s | 0.35 s |
| Fence | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Fence Gate | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Jukebox | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Wood | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Wood Planks | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Wooden Slabs | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Wooden Stairs | 3 s | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.5 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s |
| Bookshelf | 2.25 s | 1.15 s | 0.6 s | 0.4 s | 0.3 s | 0.2 s |
| Banner | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s | 0.2 s | 0.15 s |
| Jack o'Lantern | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s | 0.2 s | 0.15 s |
| Pumpkin | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s | 0.2 s | 0.15 s |
| Sign | 1.5 s | 0.75 s | 0.4 s | 0.25 s | 0.2 s | 0.15 s |
| Note Block | 1.2 s | 0.6 s | 0.3 s | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Wooden Pressure Plate | 0.75 s | 0.4 s | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | 0.1 s |
| Cocoa | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s |
| Daylight Sensor | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s |
| Huge Mushrooms | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s |
| Vines | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s | 0.05 s |
Weapon
Computer edition
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, and deal different amount of damage and have different cooldown times based on the type:
| Material | Wooden | Gold | Stone | Iron | Diamond |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack damage | 7 |
7 |
9 |
9 |
9 |
| Attack Speed | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Recovery time | 1.25 s | 1.0 s | 1.25 s | 1.11 s | 1.0 s |
| DPS | 5.6 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 9.0 |
| Lifetime damage inflicted[note 1] | 210 |
119 |
594 |
1134 |
7029 |
- ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is (Durability / 2) × Damage per hit = Lifetime damage minimum. The durability is halved because axes take double durability when used as a weapon. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes the axe is at maximum charge
Disabling a shield
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 not do as much damage as a sword:
| Attack damage | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Enchantments
An axe can receive the following enchantments:
- Fortune[note 1]
- Silk Touch[note 1]
- Efficiency
- Unbreaking
- Sharpness[note 2][note 3]
- Smite[note 2][note 3]
- Bane of Arthropods[note 2][note 3]
- Mending[note 3]
- Curse of Vanishing[note 3]
Fuel
Wooden axes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per axe.
Smelting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget |
Iron Axe or Golden Axe + Any fuel |
Data values
Axe/ID
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| MOAR Tools | Construct one type of each tool. | Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material. | 15G | Bronze | ||
Video
Axe/video
History
| indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | January 11, 2010 | Added wooden and stone axes. | |||
| January 29, 2010 | Added crafting recipes for wooden and stone axes. | ||||
| File:OldAxe.png Added iron, diamond and golden axes. | |||||
| January 31, 2010 | Axes now take damage. | ||||
| Axes are now tiered - better axes last longer. | |||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.2 | Gold tools, including axes, remove blocks faster than diamond tools. | ||||
| 1.5 | Axes deal more damage to mobs and players than by hand, which means of all non-weapon tools, axes deal the most damage. | ||||
| 1.8 | The damage increase was reverted. | ||||
| release | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w16a | Wooden and stone axes are now found in the new bonus chests. | |||
| 12w18a | Wooden axes can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | ||||
| 12w21a | Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond axe for 9–11 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–7 emeralds. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Weapon smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond axe for 9–12 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–8 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond axes are no longer sold. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w34a | Axes now use the attack speed combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for an axe is 1.2 seconds. | |||
| 15w34b | Axes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter. | ||||
| 15w34c | Axes do 4 more damage than previously | ||||
| Axes now have an attack speed of 0.85. | |||||
| Axes can temporarily disable shield use. | |||||
| 15w35a | Damage reduced by one and speed increased to 0.9. | ||||
| 15w37a | Stone and diamond axes now both do 9 damage, instead of the previous 8 and 10 respectively. | ||||
| Axes now have attack speed based on the tier, with wooden and stone having a speed of 0.8, iron having a speed of 0.9, and diamond having a speed of 1 | |||||
| 15w43a | Stone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests. | ||||
| 15w44a | Decreased average yield of stone and wooden axes from bonus chests. | ||||
| 1.11.1 | 16w50a | Golden and iron axes now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.2.0 | Added stone axes. | ||||
| 0.3.0 | Added wooden axes. | ||||
| 0.3.2 | Added iron, diamond and golden axes. | ||||
| 0.11.0 | build 11 | All axes are now available in the creative inventory. | |||
| build 12 | Removed all axes from creative. | ||||
| build 13 | Re-added axes to creative mode. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | Iron and golden axes are now smeltable. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | Added axes (all five types). | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | Patch s3 | Iron and golden axes are now smeltable. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Axe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- In the language files, axes are referred to as Hatchets.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.8/assets/minecraft/lang/en_US.lang, line 915: item.hatchetIron.name= Iron Axe