Pickaxe

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"Diamond Pickaxe" redirects here. For the Minecraft Dungeons weapon, see MCD:Diamond Pickaxe.
"Pick" redirects here. For the control, see Controls § Pick Block.
Pickaxe
Rarity color

Common

Durability

Wood: 59
Stone: 131
Iron: 250
Golden: 32
Diamond: 1561
Netherite: 2031

Renewable

Netherite: No
Others: Yes

Stackable

No

A pickaxe is one of the most commonly used tools in the game, being required to mine all ores, rock, rock-based blocks and metal-based blocks. A pickaxe allows the player to mine blocks at faster speeds, depending on the material it is made from. Specific pickaxe materials are also required to harvest certain types of blocks.

Obtaining

Crafting

Pickaxes are crafted using 2 sticks and 3 units of tool material.

Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Any Planks or
Iron Ingot or
Gold Ingot or
Diamond +
Stick

Any Cobblestone or Blackstone +
Stick

[until JE 1.17]
Any stone-tier block +
Stick

[upcoming: JE 1.17]
Matching Damaged Pickaxes


The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% of the tool type's total durability.

Upgrading

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Repairing

Grinding

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Unit repair

Pickaxes can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tier's repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the pickaxe's maximum durability, rounded down.

Natural generation

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Wooden Pickaxe Bonus chest Chest 1 75%
Stone Pickaxe Bonus chest Chest 1 25%
Iron Pickaxe Mineshaft Chest 1 7%
Stronghold Storeroom chest 1 4%
Altar chest 1 12.1%
Village Toolsmith's chest 1 41.2%
Weaponsmith's chest 1 25.6%
Enchanted Iron Pickaxe[FN 1] End city Chest 1 13.3%
Enchanted Golden Pickaxe[FN 2] Ruined portal Chest 1 20.5%
Enchanted Diamond Pickaxe[FN 1] End city Chest 1 13.3%
Enchanted Diamond Pickaxe[FN 2] Bastion remnant Generic chest 1 6.7%
Enchanted Diamond Pickaxe[FN 2][FN 3] Bastion remnant Hoglin stable chest 1 13.6%
Bedrock Edition
Wooden Pickaxe Bonus chest Chest 1 75%
Stone Pickaxe Bonus chest Chest 1 25%
Iron Pickaxe Mineshaft Chest 1 7%
Stronghold Storeroom chest 1 3.2%
Altar chest 1 11.8%
Village Toolsmith's chest 1 41.2%
Weaponsmith's chest 1 25.6%
Enchanted Iron Pickaxe[FN 1] End city Chest 1 13.3%
Enchanted Golden Pickaxe[FN 2] Ruined portal Chest 1 20.5%
Enchanted Diamond Pickaxe[FN 1] End city Chest 1 13.3%
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Enchantment probabilities are the same as a level-20 to level-39 enchantment would be on an enchantment table that had no cap at level 30, and that was able to apply treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed), and where the chance of multiple enchantments is not reduced.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.
  3. The item has between 15% and 95% of its total durability.

Trading

In Bedrock Edition, novice-level toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell stone pickaxes for one emerald, Journeyman-level toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell enchanted iron pickaxes for 3 emeralds, and master-level toolsmith villagers always sell enchanted diamond pickaxes for 13 emeralds.

In Java Edition, novice-level toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell a stone pickaxe for one emerald, journeyman-level toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell an enchanted iron pickaxe for 7–22 emeralds, and a master-level toolsmith always sells an enchanted diamond pickaxe for 18–35 emeralds.

The enchantments are the same as the ones obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.

Villager gifts

in Java Edition, toolsmith villagers throw stone pickaxes at players under the Hero of the Village effect.

Usage

Mining

A pickaxe is used to break stone and metal-based materials faster. Breaking a block with a pickaxe consumes one use (one durability point). No durability is consumed for blocks that break instantly. Pickaxes have different amounts of uses based on the type:

  • Wooden: 59
  • Stone: 131
  • Iron: 250
  • Golden: 32
  • Diamond: 1561
  • Netherite: 2031

Different qualities of pickaxe are required to successfully harvest certain ores and blocks. For example, while stone can be mined with any pickaxe, gold ore must be mined with an iron, diamond, or netherite pickaxe, or else the player harvests no ore. Different pickaxes also mine many materials at different speeds:

Speed

The following table shows the time it takes to break each type of block.

  • A red background indicates that the block cannot be harvested with that type of pickaxe.
  • A yellow background indicates that the block cannot be harvested with that type of pickaxe, but still drops something.
  • A green background indicates that the block can be harvested with that type of pickaxe.

Weapon

Hitting a mob with a pickaxe is a stronger attack than using fists. Pickaxes lose 2 durability when used as a weapon.

Java Edition

Pickaxes have an attack speed modifier of −2.8, meaning they take about 0.83 seconds to recover. All pickaxes have an attack speed of 1.2 hits per second. They deal different damage based on the type:

Pickaxe type Attack damage Damage per
second (DPS)
Wooden Pickaxe 29px 2.4
Golden Pickaxe
Stone Pickaxe 39px9px 3.6
Iron Pickaxe 49px9px 4.8
Diamond Pickaxe 59px9px9px 6
Netherite Pickaxe 69px9px9px 7.2

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, pickaxes always attack instantly and do the following damage:

Pickaxe type Attack damage
Wooden Pickaxe
Golden Pickaxe
29px
Stone Pickaxe 39px9px
Iron Pickaxe 49px9px
Diamond Pickaxe 59px9px9px
Netherite Pickaxe 69px9px9px

Enchantments

A pickaxe can receive the following enchantments:

Name Max Level Method
Efficiency V
Fortune[note 3] III
Silk Touch[note 3] I
Unbreaking III
Mending I
Curse of Vanishing I
  1. The dragon egg can be mined directly only when there aren't any air blocks available for it to teleport to. However, the dragon egg can be collected by other means.
  2. Chemistry tables are slow to break by hand, similar to blocks that require a pickaxe to mine. However, they still drop as items.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Fortune and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive.

Fuel

Wooden pickaxes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per wooden pickaxe.

Smelting ingredient

Name Ingredients Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget or
Gold Nugget
Iron Pickaxe or
Golden Pickaxe +
Any fuel


0.1

Piglins

Template:EntityLink are attracted to golden pickaxes and run toward any golden pickaxes on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.

Achievements

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Advancements

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Sounds

SoundSubtitleSourceDescriptionNamespaced IDTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
File:Random break.oggItem breaks?When durability is exhaustedentity.item.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break1.00.916

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameNamespaced IDFormTranslation key
Wooden Pickaxewooden_pickaxeItemitem.minecraft.wooden_pickaxe
Stone Pickaxestone_pickaxeItemitem.minecraft.stone_pickaxe
Iron Pickaxeiron_pickaxeItemitem.minecraft.iron_pickaxe
Diamond Pickaxediamond_pickaxeItemitem.minecraft.diamond_pickaxe
Golden Pickaxegolden_pickaxeItemitem.minecraft.golden_pickaxe
Netherite Pickaxenetherite_pickaxeItemitem.minecraft.netherite_pickaxe

Bedrock Edition:

NameNamespaced IDNumeric ID FormTranslation key
Wooden Pickaxewooden_pickaxe270Itemitem.wooden_pickaxe.name
Stone Pickaxestone_pickaxe274Itemitem.stone_pickaxe.name
Iron Pickaxeiron_pickaxe257Itemitem.iron_pickaxe.name
Diamond Pickaxediamond_pickaxe278Itemitem.diamond_pickaxe.name
Golden Pickaxegolden_pickaxe285Itemitem.golden_pickaxe.name
Netherite Pickaxenetherite_pickaxe745Itemitem.netherite_pickaxe.name

Video

History

Java Edition Indev
0.312010011032px Added iron pickaxes.
A pickaxe is used to gather stone materials 400% faster than by hand.
When starting in a new world, the player is given one of each tools.
20100124A complete tool set is no longer given to the player on starting a new world. Instead, there are multiple chests in the later called "Indev House" containing a stack of most accessible blocks/items including tools.
2010012832px 32px 32px Tools now have tiers. Wooden, stone, and diamond pickaxes have been added.
32px The texture of iron pickaxes has been changed.
A pickaxe held by the player now appears more 3d like.
They cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in Indev house.
20100129Wood, stone, iron, and diamond pickaxes can now be crafted.
2010013032px Pickaxes can now be made out of gold.
20100201-1Tools, including pickaxes, now take damage when being used.
Better tools, including pickaxes, now last longer.
20100201-2Better pickaxes are now required to mine harder materials.
2010020632px The texture of golden pickaxes has been changed.
Java Edition Beta
1.2Before, the pickaxe had much less durability (usually half as much).
Gold pickaxes now mine certain materials much faster.
1.8Pre-releaseIron pickaxes are now found in the new stronghold storeroom chests, and in the new mineshaft chests.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Iron pickaxes can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
RC1Pickaxes and other tools now make a sound when they break.
1.112w01aIron pickaxes are now found in the new village blacksmith chests.
1.3.112w16aWooden and stone pickaxes are now found in the new bonus chests.
12w18aWooden pickaxes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
12w21aBlacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond pickaxe for 10–11 emeralds, and 1 iron pickaxe for 7–8 emeralds.
1.6.113w21aInstead of replacing the barehanded damage (19px), pickaxes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all pickaxes doing 19px more damage than before.
1.814w02aTool smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond pickaxe for 12–15 emeralds, and 1 enchanted iron pickaxe for 9–11 emeralds.
Unenchanted pickaxes are no longer sold by villagers.
1.915w31aEnchanted iron and diamond pickaxes can now be found in the end ship chests in end cities.
15w34aPickaxes now use the "attack strength" combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for a pickaxe is 0.8 seconds.
15w34cPickaxes now do less damage, but recover quicker.
15w35aPickaxes now recover more slowly.
15w44aThe average yield of wood and stone pickaxes in bonus chests has been decreased.
The average yield of iron pickaxes in mineshaft chests has been increased.
1.11.116w50aGolden and iron pickaxes can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 270, 274, 257, 278 and 285.
1.1418w43a32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of all pickaxes have been changed.
18w50aIron pickaxes can now be found in chests in village toolsmith houses.
19w13aToolsmith villagers now give stone pickaxes to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
Combat Tests1.14.3 - Combat TestThe attack speed for all pickaxes has been increased to 2.5.
The damage for all pickaxes has been increased by 19px.
1.1620w06a32px Added netherite pickaxes.
Netherite pickaxes are obtained by combining one diamond pickaxe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
20w09a32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of wooden, golden, diamond, and netherite pickaxes have been changed.
20w10a32px Changed a pixel of the texture of netherite pickaxes.
Netherite pickaxes can no longer be crafted.
Netherite pickaxes are now obtained by combining one diamond pickaxe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
20w15aStone pickaxes can now be crafted using blackstone.
20w16aGolden pickaxes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.032px Added stone pickaxes.
v0.3.032px Added wooden pickaxes.
Survival players no longer start out with an infinite durability stone pickaxe in the inventory.
v0.3.232px 32px 32px Added iron, gold, and diamond pickaxes.
v0.4.0Removed stone pickaxes from the creative inventory.
v0.11.0build 11All pickaxes are now available in the creative inventory.
build 12All pickaxes have been removed from creative.
build 13Pickaxes have been re-added to creative mode.
v0.14.0build 1Iron pickaxes can now be found inside minecart with chests in mineshafts.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Enchanted iron pickaxes and enchanted diamond pickaxes can now be found in end cities.
1.0.4alpha 1.0.4.0Toolsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond pickaxes for 12-15 emeralds as their last tier trades and enchanted iron pickaxes for 9-11 emeralds as their second tier trades.
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Iron and golden pickaxes are now smeltable.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0beta 1.2.0.2Wooden and stone pickaxes can now be found inside bonus chests.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Iron pickaxes can now be found in plains village weaponsmith houses.
32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of all pickaxes have been changed.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Iron pickaxes can now be found in village toolsmiths chests and in savanna, taiga, snowy taiga and desert village weaponsmith chests.
beta 1.11.0.4Trading has been changed, toolsmith villagers now have a 25% chance to sell an enchanted iron pickaxe for 3 emeralds as part of their third tier trades, and an enchanted diamond pickaxe now costs 13 emeralds.
Stone pickaxes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers.
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.5132px Added netherite pickaxes.
Netherite pickaxes are obtained by combining one diamond pickaxe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
32px 32px 32px The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond pickaxes have been changed.
beta 1.16.0.57Netherite pickaxes can no longer be crafted.
Netherite pickaxes are now obtained by combining one diamond pickaxe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
Stone pickaxes can now be crafted using blackstone.
Golden pickaxes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
Netherite pickaxe now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnant chest.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 132px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added pickaxes (all five types).
TU53CU43 1.49 Patch 231.0.3Iron and golden pickaxes are now smeltable.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.9032px 32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of all pickaxes have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.032px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added pickaxes.

Issues

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Trivia

  • The golden pickaxe is the only pickaxe aside from the wooden pickaxe that is unable to harvest the material it is made from.
  • A Rail that is curved to the side, a texture similar to that of an iron pickaxe appears when viewed from the top.
  • The pickaxe is the only block-breaking tool without a use (right-click) function.

Publicity

  • Plastic diamond pickaxes are official Minecraft merchandise.[1]
  • In the game Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise, the player can buy a diamond pickaxe which, according to the game, is made by "Kick it up a Notch Pickaxes", referring to Notch.
  • In mobile game Vlogger Go Viral clicker game, after buying the figurine shelf, there is a model of a diamond pickaxe stuck to a grass block.
  • In the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the player can find a pickaxe called the "Notched Pickaxe", evidently an easter egg.
  • In the game Offensive Combat, a stone pickaxe can be used as a melee weapon with the name of "The Notch Carver".
  • In the game The Binding of Isaac, an obtainable item named "Notched Axe", also with a drawn 8-bit look, can be used to destroy rocks. The Notched Axe also makes a return in the game's remake, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
  • In the game Borderlands 2, the player can find a secret area hidden away by blocks resembling Minecraft dirt, also once inside the player can fight Creeper and the Mother Creeper to get rare Minecraft-related skins.
  • In the game Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the supermarket level has a "Mintcraft" display, an obvious parody of Minecraft, even including toy pickaxes and a creeper head.

Gallery

Enchanted pickaxes

References

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