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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

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♥ × 105 119♥ × 59.5 594♥ × 297 1134♥ × 567 7029♥ × 3514.5
  1. 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:

  1. a b Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive
  2. a b c Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive
  3. a b c d e Only available using enchanted books and an anvil

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 ToolsConstruct one type of each tool.Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.15GBronze

Video

Axe/video

History

indev
0.31January 11, 2010Added wooden and stone axes.
January 29, 2010Added crafting recipes for wooden and stone axes.
File:OldAxe.png Added iron, diamond and golden axes.
January 31, 2010Axes now take damage.
Axes are now tiered - better axes last longer.
beta
1.2Gold tools, including axes, remove blocks faster than diamond tools.
1.5Axes deal more damage to mobs and players than by hand, which means of all non-weapon tools, axes deal the most damage.
1.8The damage increase was reverted.
release
1.3.112w16aWooden and stone axes are now found in the new bonus chests.
12w18aWooden axes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
12w21aBlacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond axe for 9–11 emeralds, and 1 iron axe for 6–7 emeralds.
1.814w02aWeapon 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.
1.915w34aAxes 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.
15w34bAxes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter.
15w34cAxes do 4 more damage than previously
Axes now have an attack speed of 0.85.
Axes can temporarily disable shield use.
15w35aDamage reduced by one and speed increased to 0.9.
15w37aStone 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
15w43aStone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests.
15w44aDecreased average yield of stone and wooden axes from bonus chests.
1.11.116w50aGolden and iron axes now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0Added stone axes.
0.3.0Added wooden axes.
0.3.2Added iron, diamond and golden axes.
0.11.0build 11All axes are now available in the creative inventory.
build 12Removed all axes from creative.
build 13Re-added axes to creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1build 1Iron and golden axes are now smeltable.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.00 Patch 1Added axes (all five types).
TU53CU43 1.49 Patch 23Patch s3Iron 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. 1.8/assets/minecraft/lang/en_US.lang, line 915: item.hatchetIron.name= Iron Axe
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