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Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster, to gather materials not obtainable by hand, or to perform completely new actions.

List of Tools

Shovel

Shovels are used for removing dirt, sand, and gravel faster.

Pickaxe

Pickaxes are used for removing stone, cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, coal, iron ore, gold ore, diamond, obsidian, and stairs faster.

Coal can only be retrieved with a wooden pickaxe or better, iron ore with a stone pickaxe or better, gold ore and diamond with a iron pickaxe or better and obsidian with a diamond pickaxe.

Hatchet

Hatchets are used for removing logs, planks, and chests faster.

Bucket

Buckets are used to hold water or lava for transport. They can only pick up "springs" blocks also known as infinite water or infinite lava blocks and not the "run off" from these blocks. Springs are easily identified by the texture as the top of a spring block will never be moving whereas non-spring blocks will always move.

Flint and Steel

Flint and Steel is used to light trees, grass, and mobs on fire.

Tool Material and Efficiency

The primary tools can be made out of four different materials: wood, stone, iron, and diamond. Each material has a limited amount of uses and a specific action time. The better the material used, the more uses it has and the shorter the action time. The following chart, courtesy of Crixnmix (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15985), portrays the average time, in seconds, required to break a block depending on what material is used to craft a tool.


(*) These values represent tools which yield no block drops.

(**) Half stair blocks and full stair blocks require the same amount of time to break.

(***) There is double durability damage to weapons when they are used to break glass and leaves.

HANDS
WOOD
STONE
IRON
DIAMOND
SHOVELS
Dirt
1.05 sec
0.70 sec
0.49 sec
0.44 sec
0.39 sec
Gravel
1.19 sec
0.74 sec
0.54 sec
0.44 sec
0.44 sec
Sand
1.05 sec
0.70 sec
0.49 sec
0.44 sec
0.39 sec
PICKAXES
Smooth Stone
7.68 sec (*)
1.44 sec
0.89 sec
0.68 sec
0.59 sec
Cobblestone
10.19 sec (*)
1.79 sec
1.04 sec
0.79 sec
0.68 sec
Coal Ore
15.22 sec (*)
2.54 sec
1.44 sec
1.04 sec
0.89 sec
Iron Ore
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
1.44 sec
1.04 sec
0.89 sec
Gold Ore
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
1.04 sec
0.89 sec
Diamond Ore
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
1.04 sec
0.89 sec
Iron Block
25.58 sec (*)
25.58 sec (*)
2.19 sec
1.54 sec
1.24 sec
Gold Block
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
15.22 sec (*)
1.04 sec
0.89 sec
Diamond Block
25.28 sec (*)
25.28 sec (*)
25.28 sec (*)
1.54 sec
1.24 sec
Obsidian
50.29 sec (*)
50.29 sec (*)
50.29 sec (*)
50.29 sec (*)
15.35 sec
Stair Block (**)
10.26 sec (*)
1.79 sec
1.04 sec
0.79 sec
0.68 sec
Furnace
17.67 sec (*)
5.52 sec
5.52 sec
5.52 sec
5.52 sec
AXES
Log
3.34 sec
1.44 sec
0.89 sec
0.68 sec
0.59 sec
Plank
3.34 sec
1.79 sec
1.04 sec
0.79 sec
0.68 sec
Crafting Table
4.06 sec
4.06 sec
4.06 sec
4.06 sec
4.06 sec
Chest
4.06 sec
2.15 sec
1.21 sec
0.91 sec
0.76 sec
SWORDS (***)
Glass
0.74 sec
0.58 sec
0.58 sec
0.58 sec
0.58 sec
Leaves
0.59 sec
0.50 sec
0.50 sec
0.50 sec
0.50 sec
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