Axe

Usage

The axe is used to break Wood as well as deconstruct it in the crafting grid. Many wood blocks cannot be removed intact without the appropriate level of axe quality. Attempting to break wood-type blocks without an axe will usually destroy said blocks, resulting in only sawdust. Axes are a necessary tool for ascending the tech tree.

An axe can also be used as a weapon, in which role it deals less damage than a sword, but more than any other tool in melee. Axes cannot be used to parry. Players that can reliably launch critical hits can nevertheless make axes compelling weapons, especially should a sword not be handy. They can be useful to kill passive mobs while logging.

Usage of the axe as a weapon will deal double durability damage to the axe. Moreover, axes cost more resources per tool than swords do to begin with. Hence, the axe's use as a weapon should be limited to last resort. However, a diamond axe can be a useful weapon when obtained from trading with villagers, as it does the same damage as the iron sword and is almost three times as durable. A diamond axe will also usually cost only slightly more emeralds than an iron sword.

Axes ease the process of collecting woods, wood planks, chests and bookshelves, but are not required to gather them. They can also be used on mobs and player as a weapon, but do half a heart less damage than swords of the same material.

Axes are now the preferred tool for efficiently breaking leaf and vine blocks.

BTW modifies the vanilla recipe for the axe: it only requires two stone/ingots instead of 3. The wooden axe recipe has been removed. As with all other BTW tools, the Diamond Axe is made with Diamond (Ingot) instead of diamonds.

Iron axes and better will not consume hunger when you are chopping through zero toughness vegetation like grass and flowers, making them ideal for clearing paths for yourself as you move about above ground. In addition to this, diamond level axes and better will not consume durability when destroying leaf or vine blocks, which means you can use them to carve paths through jungles or other dense vegetation without them ever wearing out. This gives a significant boost to the usefulness of axes in general as they were still rather underpowered relative to other tools, as well as further encouraging path and road building. Note that gold axes are considered "worse" than iron for the purposes of this, and thus get no bonuses.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Stone Axe	Stone Item Shaft String or Hemp Fiber

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Axe	Iron (Ingot) or Gold (Ingot) or Diamond (Ingot)) & Shaft

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Refined Axe	Soulforged Steel & Haft

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Battle Axe	Soulforged Steel, Hafts

Axe

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Stackable	No
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Durability	Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Gold: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses
First Appearance	Indev 0.31 (January 29, 2010)
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Speed and durability

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

Axes	Nothing	Wood	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Gold
Durability	∞	60	132	251	1562	33
Trapdoor	4.5 s	2.25 s	1.15 s	0.75 s	0.6 s	0.4 s
File:Grid Door.png Door	4.5 s	2.25 s	1.15 s	0.75 s	0.6 s	0.4 s
Chest	3.75 s	1.9 s	0.95 s	0.65 s	0.5 s	0.35 s
Crafting Table	3.75 s	1.9 s	0.95 s	0.65 s	0.5 s	0.35 s
Fence	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Fence Gate	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Jukebox	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wood	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wood Planks	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wooden Slabs	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Wooden Stairs	3 s	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.5 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Bookshelf	2.25 s	1.15 s	0.6 s	0.4 s	0.3 s	0.2 s
Jack 'o' Lantern	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 s
Pumpkin	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 s
Sign	1.5 s	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.2 s	0.15 s
Note Block	1.2 s	0.6 s	0.3 s	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Wooden Pressure Plate	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.1 s
Cocoa	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s
Daylight Sensor	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s
Huge Mushrooms	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s
Vines	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s	0.05 s	0.05 s	0.05 s

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Prerequisites	Actual requirements (if different)	Version restriction	Xbox points earned
48px	MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one spade, one axe and one hoe).	Benchmarking		Xbox	15G

Video

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Trivia

• Axes in Minecraft Pocket Edition can kill zombies with three hits.
• Axes in 1.5 texture folder are named "hatchet(material).png"

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