Axes

Axe
Durability:	Wooden: 60 Stone: 132 Iron: 251 Gold: 33 Diamond: 1562
Stackable:	No
Renewable:	Diamond: No All others: Yes
Identifiers:	wooden_axe stone_axe iron_axe golden_axe diamond_axe

Axes are tools used to ease the process of collecting wood and other wooden objects, but are not required to gather them.

Obtaining

Natural Generation

Wooden axes with full durability can be found in 52.2% of bonus chests with full durability, stone axes with 20 to 50 damage can be found in 52.2% of bonus chests, and stone axes with 50 to 100 damage can be found in 21.8% of loot chests. All in stacks of 1.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Recipe
Axe	Two Sticks or two Bamboo and three Wooden Planks or three Cobblestone or three Iron Ingots or three Gold Ingots or three Diamonds.

Repairing

Two axes 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.

Anvil - Repair & Rename

Usage

Chopping wood

The axe is used to chop wood and wood-based blocks faster.

Weapon

Axes can be used to deal higher damage to mobs than by hand, however an axe does less damage than a sword of the same material and uses as twice durability points when used for that purpose.

Axe	Damage
Wooden	2 ()
Stone	2.5 ( × 1.25)
Iron	3 ()
Golden	3.5 ( × 1.75)
Diamond	4 ()

Enchanting

Axes can be enchanted directly through the enchantment table.

Enchantments applicable to axes include:

• Silk touch *
• Fire aspect
• Efficiency
• Fortune *
• Knockback
• Looting
• Bane of arthropods
• Smite
• Sharpness
• Unbreaking

* Silk touch and fortune are mutually exclusive.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Recipe
Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget	Iron Axe or Golden Axe and Any fuel

Data Values

Item Data

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

History

Version	Date	Changes
Prior to 1.4.34	Day 11	Added axes
1.19	Nov 19, 2011	Updated the textures of axes
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Axes can be repaired through crafting and through the anvil

See also

• Shovels
• Pickaxes
• Swords
• Hoes
• Tools