Axe

Rarity color	Common
Durability	Bedrock Edition Gold: 33 Wood: 60 Stone: 132 Iron: 251 Diamond: 1562 Netherite: 2032 Java Edition Golden: 32 Wood: 59 Stone: 131 Iron: 250 Diamond: 1561 Netherite: 2031
Renewable	Netherite: No All others: Yes
Stackable	No

An axe is a tool used to hasten the collection of wood-based items. It is also used as a weapon for melee attacks.

Obtaining

Crafting

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]}
Damaged Matching Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Upgrading

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Repairing

Grinding

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Unit repair

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

Mob loot

Equipment

A vindicator spawns with an iron axe and has an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II, and 11.5% with Looting III) of dropping it upon death by the player. It usually has some amount of damage and is sometimes enchanted.

A piglin brute spawns with a golden axe and has an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II, and 11.5% with Looting III) of dropping it upon death by the player. Also, in Java Edition, zombified piglins can drop their golden axe (with the same chance as piglin brute drop) if they have been zombified from a piglin brute.

Raids

In Bedrock Edition, Vindicator and pillagers that spawn in raids have a 4.1% chance (5.12% on hard) to drop a badly-damaged iron axe, which is sometimes enchanted with a random enchantment. A vindicator can drop 2 iron axes, one from natural equipment and one from raid drops.

Trading

Novice-level Toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell a stone axe for one emerald, journeyman-level Toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell an enchanted iron axe for eight emeralds, and expert-level Toolsmith villagers have a 50% chance to sell an enchanted diamond axe for 13 emeralds.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Novice-level Toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell a stone axe for one emerald, journeyman-level Toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell an enchanted iron axe for 7-22 emeralds, and expert-level Toolsmith villagers have a ²⁄₃ chance to sell an enchanted diamond axe for 18-35 emeralds.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Novice-level Weaponsmith villagers sell an iron axe for 3 emeralds as one of their trades, and master-level Weaponsmith villagers sell an enchanted diamond axe for 12 emeralds.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Novice-level Weaponsmith villagers have a ²⁄₃ chance to sell an iron axe for 3 emeralds. Master-level Weaponsmith villagers always offer to sell an enchanted diamond axe for 18-35 emeralds.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

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

Villager gifts

Toolsmith villagers occasionally throw stone axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Weaponsmith villagers occasionally throw either stone, gold, or iron axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Chest loot

In woodland mansions, a sealed room can appear that has a chest always containing an Efficiency I iron axe.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Wooden Axe	Bonus chest	Chest	1	75%
Stone Axe	Bonus chest	Chest	1	25%
	Igloo	Chest	1	14.7%
	Underwater ruins	Small ruins chest	1	30.2%
Enchanted Golden Axe^{[FN 1]}	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	22.8%
		Generic chest	1	9.8%
		Bridge chest	1	11.2%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
Bedrock Edition
Wooden Axe	Bonus chest	Chest	1	75%
Stone Axe	Bonus chest	Chest	1	25%
	Igloo	Chest	1	14.7%
	Underwater ruins	Small ruins chest	1	30.2%
Enchanted Golden Axe^{[FN 1]}	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.

Usage

Chopping wood

An axe is used to break logs and blocks derived from wood faster than by using other tools. An axe uses 1 durability to break 1 block. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.

Durability

Each tier of axe has a different durability:

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

Speed

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

Block	Breaking time^{[FN 1]}
Block	Default	Wooden	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Netherite	Golden
Wooden Trapdoors	4.5	2.25	1.15	0.75	0.6	0.5	0.4
Wooden Doors	4.5	2.25	1.15	0.75	0.6	0.5	0.4
Chest	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Trapped Chest	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Lectern	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Smithing table	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Loom	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Cartography table	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Fletching table	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Barrel	3.75	1.9	0.95	0.65	0.5	0.45	0.35
Fences	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Fence Gates	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Jukebox	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Logs	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Planks	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Wooden Slabs	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Wooden Stairs	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Campfire	3	1.5	0.75	0.5	0.4	0.35	0.25
Bookshelf	2.25	1.15	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.25	0.2
Banners	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Jack o'Lantern	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Melon	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Pumpkin	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Sign	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Note Block	1.2	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.15	0.15	0.1
Wooden Pressure Plate	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1	0.1
Beehive	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1	0.1
Ladder	0.6	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.05
Bee Nest	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.1	0.1	0.05	0.05
Composter	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1	0.1
Bamboo	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Bed	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Cocoa	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Daylight Detector	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Mushroom Block	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Vines	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Stripping

Using an axe on a log, wood or copper block causes it to become a stripped log, stripped wood block or removes one layer of oxidization or wax, respectively. This consumes one point of durability from the axe.

Weapon

An axe loses 2 points of durability when used as a weapon.

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, axes always attack instantly and deal 19px less damage than a sword of the same quality:

Material	Damage
Wooden	49px 9px
Golden	49px 9px
Stone	59px 9px 9px
Iron	69px 9px 9px
Diamond	79px 9px 9px 9px
Netherite	89px 9px 9px 9px

Java Edition

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. Vindicators, piglin brutes or other mobs with commands always disable the player's shield. Damage done when using an axe as a weapon is more than that of a sword of the same tier, though they take longer than a sword to recover. The damage dealt and cooldown time depends on the type:

Material	Wooden	Gold	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Netherite
Attack Damage	79px 9px 9px 9px	79px 9px 9px 9px	99px 9px 9px 9px 9px	99px 9px 9px 9px 9px	99px 9px 9px 9px 9px	109px 9px 9px 9px 9px
Attack Speed	0.8	1.0	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.0
Recovery time	Template:Convert	Template:Convert	Template:Convert	Template:Convert	Template:Convert	Template:Convert
DPS	5.6	7.0	7.2	8.1	9.0	10.0
Lifetime damage inflicted^{[note 1]}	206.59px × 103.25	1129px × 56	589.59px × 294.75	11259px × 562.5	7024.59px × 3512.25	101559px × 5077.5

↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is (durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit = minimum lifetime damage. The durability is halved because axes take double durability when used as a weapon. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.

Enchantments

An axe can receive the following enchantments:


Name	Max Level	Method
Fortune^{[note 1]}	III
Silk Touch^{[note 1]}	I
Efficiency	V
Unbreaking	III
Sharpness^{[note 2]}	V
Smite^{[note 2]}	V
Bane of Arthropods^{[note 2]}	V
Fire Aspect	II
Looting	III
Knockback ‌^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]}	II
Cleaving‌^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]}^{[note 2]}	III
Sweeping Edge‌^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]}^{[note 3]}	III
Mending	I
Curse of Vanishing	I

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and Cleaving‌^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]} are mutually exclusive.
↑ Sweeping edge currently exists, but it can only be used for swords.

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	0.1

Sounds

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Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Axe strip1.oggFile:Axe strip2.oggFile:Axe strip3.oggFile:Axe strip4.ogg	Axe strips	Blocks	When stripping wood	`item.axe.strip`	`subtitles.item.axe.strip`	0.9	0.85, ?	16
File:Random break.ogg	Item breaks	Players	When durability is exhausted	`entity.item.break`	`subtitles.entity.item.break`	1.0	0.9	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Wooden Axe	`wooden_axe`	Item	`item.minecraft.wooden_axe`
Stone Axe	`stone_axe`	Item	`item.minecraft.stone_axe`
Iron Axe	`iron_axe`	Item	`item.minecraft.iron_axe`
Diamond Axe	`diamond_axe`	Item	`item.minecraft.diamond_axe`
Golden Axe	`golden_axe`	Item	`item.minecraft.golden_axe`
Netherite Axe	`netherite_axe`	Item	`item.minecraft.netherite_axe`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Wooden Axe	`wooden_axe`	`271`	Item	`item.wooden_axe.name`
Stone Axe	`stone_axe`	`275`	Item	`item.stone_axe.name`
Iron Axe	`iron_axe`	`258`	Item	`item.iron_axe.name`
Diamond Axe	`diamond_axe`	`279`	Item	`item.diamond_axe.name`
Golden Axe	`golden_axe`	`286`	Item	`item.golden_axe.name`
Netherite Axe	`netherite_axe`	`746`	Item	`item.netherite_axe.name`

Achievements

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Advancements

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History

Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100110			32px Added iron axes.
					An axe is used to gather wood 400% faster than by hand.
					When starting in a new world, the player is given one of each tool.
		20100122			32px The texture of axes has been changed. Half of the axe head has been removed.
		20100124			32px The texture of axes has been changed. The other axe head is now used instead.
		20100124			A complete toolset 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.
		20100128			32px 32px 32px Tools now have tiers. Wooden, stone, and diamond axes have been added.
					32px The texture of iron axes has been changed.
					An axe 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.
		20100129			Wood, stone, iron, and diamond axes can now be crafted.
		20100130			32px Axes can now be made out of gold.
		20100201-1			Tools now take damage when being used. Better tools now last longer.
20100206					32px The texture of golden axes has been changed.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Gold tools, including axes, now remove blocks faster than diamond tools.
Java Edition
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.
1.6.1		13w21a			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (19px), axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all axes doing 19px more damage than before.
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 49px 9px more damage than previously.
					Axes now have an attack speed of 0.85.
					Axes can now temporarily disable shield use.
		15w35a			The damage of axes has been reduced by 19px.
		15w35a			The speed of axes has been increased to 0.9.
		15w37a			Stone and diamond axes now both do 99px 9px 9px 9px 9px damage, instead of the previous 89px 9px 9px 9px and 109px 9px 9px 9px 9px respectively.
		15w37a			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 and gold having a speed of 1.
		15w43a			Stone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests.
		15w44a			The average yield of stone and wooden axes from bonus chests has been decreased.
1.11.1		16w50a			Golden and iron axes now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 271, 275, 258, 279 and 286.
		18w07a			Using an axe on bark or a log now turns it into a stripped log.
		18w09a			Stone axes now can generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
		pre2			Using an axe on a bark now turns it into a stripped bark.
1.14		18w43a			32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of all axes have been changed.
		19w13a			Toolsmith villagers now give stone axes to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
		19w13a			Weaponsmith villagers now give stone, golden and iron axes to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.16		20w06a			32px Added netherite axes.
		20w06a			Netherite axes are obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
		20w09a			32px The texture of diamond axes has been changed.
		20w10a			32px The texture of netherite axes has been changed.
					Netherite axes can no longer be crafted.
					Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
		20w15a			Stone axes can now be crafted using blackstone.
		20w16a			Golden axes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		21w11a			Axes can now be used to scrape wax and oxidation off copper blocks.
Combat Tests		1.14.3 - Combat Test			The attack speed for all axes has been increased to 2.
		1.14.3 - Combat Test			All axes now deal 19px more damage than their sword counterparts.
		Combat Test 3			The Chopping enchantment has been added for axes, which adds 1 damage and 0.5 seconds (10 game ticks) of shield stunning per level and is mutually exclusive with Sharpness.
					Axes now always disable shields for Template:Convert, instead of having a 25% to disable them for 5 seconds (100 game ticks).
					Axes now take 1 damage when attacking instead of 2.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0					32px Added stone axes.
v0.3.0					32px Added wooden axes.
v0.3.0					Survival players no longer start with an infinite durability stone axe in the inventory.
v0.3.2					32px 32px 32px Added iron, golden and diamond axes.
v0.4.0					Removed stone axes from the creative inventory.
v0.11.0		build 11			All axes are now available in the creative inventory.
		build 12			All axes have been removed from creative.
		build 13			All axes have been re-added to creative mode.
v0.12.1		build 1			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (19px), axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all axes doing 19px more damage than before.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Stone axes now can be found inside igloo basement chests.
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Weaponsmith villagers now sell iron axes for 6-8 emeralds as part of their first tier trades and enchanted diamond axes for 9-12 emeralds as part of their third tier trades.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Iron and golden axes are now smeltable.
					Iron axes with the Efficiency I enchantment can now be found inside chests in woodland mansions.
					Added vindicators, who rarely drop iron axes.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Wooden and stone axes can now be found in bonus chests.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Using an axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Stone axes can now be found inside underwater ruins chests.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of all axes have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop an iron axe.
					Trading has been changed, weaponsmith villagers now sell iron axes for 3 emeralds and enchanted diamond axes for 12 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades.
					Stone axes, enchanted iron axes, and diamond axes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			32px Added netherite axes.
					Netherite axes are obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
					32px The texture of diamond axes has been changed.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Netherite axes can no longer be crafted.
					Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
					Stone axes can now be crafted using blackstone.
					Golden axes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
					Netherite axes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnant chests.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Added piglin brutes, who rarely drop golden axes.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.54			Piglin brutes no longer spawn with enchanted axes.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.55			Zombified piglins that are converted from piglin brutes now keep their golden axes.
1.16.220		beta 1.16.220.52			Axes can now be used to scrape wax off copper blocks.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added axes (all five types).
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Iron and golden axes are now smeltable.
		1.90			32px 32px 32px 32px 32px The textures of all axes have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added axes.

Issues

Issues relating to "Axe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

Before Java Edition 1.13, in the language files, axes were referred to as Hatchets.^[1]

References

↑ 1.8/assets/minecraft/lang/en_US.lang, line 915: item.hatchetIron.name= Iron Axe

Items

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[enchant-randomly-1] 1.0 ^1.1 All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.

[breakingtimenote-2] Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

[3] The formula to find the total lifetime damage is (durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit = minimum lifetime damage. The durability is halved because axes take double durability when used as a weapon. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.

[exc-4] 1.0 ^1.1 Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive.

[exc2-5] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and Cleaving‌^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]} are mutually exclusive.

[6] Sweeping edge currently exists, but it can only be used for swords.

[1.8_lang-7] 1.8/assets/minecraft/lang/en_US.lang, line 915: item.hatchetIron.name= Iron Axe

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