Pickaxes

A pickaxe is required to obtain any stone, and must be of a suitable material for different minerals.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Wooden pickaxes and stone pickaxes can be found in a Bonus chest. They can also be found inside chests in dungeons, skyholds and ruins.

Crafting

3 x head material across the top row, and 2 sticks/bamboo vertically below the centre. Head materials below.

Wooden plank Wooden plank Wooden plank

Usage

Successive types include the abilities of previous ones but can mine faster, and give the player the ability to collect drops from some blocks.

Note:

• Bedrock cannot be broken by any means in Survival mode.
• Some blocks drop nothing even with a diamond pickaxe, such as the Mob_spawner.

Pickaxe	Material	Uses	Collects	Breaks faster	Breaks(without dropping)
	Wooden planks	60	Stone/cobblestone (dropping cobblestone), coal ore, sandstone, enderstone.	glow stone, odd rock ore, bone block.	iron, lapis, redstone, obsidian, topaz, ender gem.
	Cobblestone	130	Iron ore, coral	Glow stone, odd rock ore, bone block, stone/cobblestone (dropping cobblestone), coal ore, sandstone, ender stone.	Lapis ore, redstone ore, gold ore, diamond ore, ender gem ore
	Iron ingot	251	Lapis ore, redstone ore, gold ore, diamond ore, ender gem ore. It can break anything but obsidian.	Glow stone, odd rock ore, bone block, stone/cobblestone (dropping cobblestone).	Obsidian
Gold pickaxe	Gold ingot	33	Same as the Iron pickaxe	Same as the Iron pickaxe	Same as the Iron pickaxe
	Diamond	1500	Can mine obsidian, as well as all other blocks(apart from bedrock)	Fastest possible speed for everything	(All possible collectable blocks are collected)

Trivia

• In the image files of Mine Blocks there is a purple pickaxe, labelled "pickaxe6"

See also

• Tools
• Swords
• Shovels
• Axes