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Axes are auxiliary tools used to ease the process of collecting logs, planks, chests and bookcases, but are not required to gather them.

Crafting

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

Ingredients Input » Output Description
Sticks +
Wood or
Cobblestone or
Iron Ingots or
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems
Template:Grid/Crafting Table Used to chop wood-related

blocks faster than by hand.

Speed and Durability

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

Axes Bare hands Wood Stone Iron Diamond Gold
Durability 60 132 251 1562 33
Chest 3.75 secs 1.9 secs 0.95 secs 0.65 secs 0.5 secs 0.35 secs
Wood 3 secs 1.5 secs 0.75 secs 0.5 secs 0.4 secs 0.25 secs
Wooden
Plank
3 secs 1.5 secs 0.75 secs 0.5 secs 0.4 secs 0.25 secs
Bookshelf 2.25 secs 1.15 secs 0.6 secs 0.4 secs 0.3 secs 0.2 secs

Notes

  • A wood block can be chopped until it almost breaks then switched to a non-tool item to complete breaking, saving a use of the axe.
  • After 1.2 Beta update, gold tools, including axes, remove blocks faster than diamond tools.
  • Axes, as of Minecraft Beta 1.5, deal more damage to mobs and players than by hand.
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