Axe
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.
Contents
Tools and Weapons
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | |||||||||||
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Axe | Stone Item Shaft String or Hemp Fiber |
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Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | |||||||||||
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Axe | Iron (Ingot) or Gold (Ingot) or Diamond (Ingot)) & Shaft |
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The vanilla Bow is the same, but BTW also adds the Composite Bow.
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | |||||||||||
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Composite Bow | Glue, Moulding, Bone, String |
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Type |
Tools |
Stackable |
No |
Durability |
Wood: 60 Uses |
Indev 0.31 (January 29, 2010) |
Axes are tools used to 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.
Usage
The axe is used to break wood and wooden items faster. It is less necessary than a pickaxe to advance in the game as the axe is not needed to collect items for which it is suited to breaking or, in the case of bookshelves, does not help in collecting it. Most items the axe is rated for can also be broken reasonably quickly by hand. However, given most players expend fairly large quantities of wood through gameplay, the use of axes for logging and renovation will save a great deal of time in the long run.
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.
Crafting
Ingredients | Input » Output | Description | |||||||||||
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Sticks + Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamonds |
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Used to break wood-related
blocks faster than by hand. |
Speed and durability
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality axes perform.
Axes | Nothing | Wood | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Gold |
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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 |
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
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Prerequisites | Actual requirements (if different) | Version restriction | Xbox points earned |
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MOAR Tools | Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one spade, one axe and one hoe). | Benchmarking | Xbox | 15G |
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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"