Pickaxes

Pickaxe
Type:	Tool
Stackable:	No
Identifier:	See data values

Pickaxes are a type of tool required to obtain stone related blocks and to mine ores.

Obtaining

Natural Generation

Wooden pickaxes with full durability can be found in 52.2% of bonus chest in stacks of 1.

Stone pickaxes with 20-50 damage can be found in 52.2% of bonus chests in stacks of 1.

Stone pickaxes with 50-100 damage can be found in 21.8% of loot chests in stacks of 1.

Crafting

Pickaxes are crafted using three tool materials and two sticks.

Repairing

Two pickaxes of the same material can be combined in the crafting grid to combine their durability. This can also be done through use of the anvil, to preserve enchantments.

Usage

Mining

Pickaxes are used to mine stone related blocks and ores. These blocks that pickaxes mine faster would usually not drop if not mined with one. 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.

Pickaxes have different durability depending on which tool material they were made out of. The greater the tier the greater the number of blocks it is able to mine.

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

Weapon

Pickaxes can be used to deal more damage than by hand, however they deal less damage than a sword or axe tool of the same material and use up two durability points when used to do damage to a mob.

Enchanting

Pickaxes can be enchanted directly through the enchantment table.

Enchantments applicable to pickaxes include:

• Silk touch(Max lvl I)*
• Efficiency(Max lvl II)
• Fortune(Max lvl III)*
• Unbreaking(Max lvl IV)

*Note: Silk touch and fortune are mutually exclusive.

Tasks

#	Task	Objective	Needs
5	Craft a Wooden Pickaxe.	Make a wooden pickaxe.	This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting.
6	Craft a Stone Pickaxe.	Make a stone pickaxe.	This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting.
7	Craft an Iron Pickaxe.	Make an iron pickaxe.	This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting. This page is a candidate for deletion! Reason: No longer needed here. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at Category talk:Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove the {{delete}} tag. Remember to check what links here and the page history before deleting.

Data Values

ID

Pickaxes use their ID to determine their grade.

Pickaxe	ID
	wooden_pickaxe
	stone_pickaxe
	iron_pickaxe
	golden_pickaxe
	diamond_pickaxe

Item Data

Item data is used to determine the durability of the pickaxe. If using the /give command, this can be specified using the third parameter. Positive integers are how much durability the pickaxe has taken away from full durability, and negative integers are how much durability the pickaxe has left. For example, the command /give wooden_pickaxe 1 10 gives one wooden pickaxe with ten durability taken away from full durability.

History

Version	Date	Changes
Prior to 1.4.34	Day 10	Added the wooden pickaxe recipe
Prior to 1.4.34	Day 11	Wooden pickaxe Other pickaxes
1.19	Nov 19, 2011	Updated the textures of pickaxes
1.23	Nov 13, 2015	Wooden and stone pickaxes can no longer be used to mine gold
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Pickaxes can be repaired through crafting and through the anvil

Trivia

• There is an unobtainable obsidian pickaxe in the game's code. It has 3000 durability points, and breaks many blocks instantly, and could also mine bedrock. It was added and is currently the only known remnant of a Points system where players would get points through an unknown way then trade them in for special/useful items.

The unused Obsidian Pickaxe

See Also

• Tools
• Swords
• Shovels
• Axes
• Hoes