Shaft

The Shaft is a basic piece of wood. Two shafts can be obtained from punching or using a Chisel type tool such as the sharp stone on a wood block, producing a shaft at the second and fourth stages. Punching or chipping wood also produces bark and saw dust. Using a chisel type tool allows shafts to be produced more quickly. Shafts can also be obtained as a common drop from witches.

Shafts are used primarily as the handles for tools, torches, bows and swords, amongst other crafting recipes, or crafted alone into a pointy stick. They can also be used to construct campfires, fire ploughs, wood clubs, or burned as fuel, providing twice the burn time of saw dust or bark.

Shafts can be placed into soft surfaces in the overworld such as dirt and sand blocks. Mob heads can be placed on them in this manner as well.

Crafting

Splitting logs in a crafting grid requires placing an Axe into the grid with the block of wood. When used this way, the axe is damaged one durability point per log.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Shaft, Bark, Saw Dust	Wood, Stone Axe
Shaft	Wooden Plank or Wooden Moulding

Uses

Crafting

Please note that this list is not comprehensive, and only includes early-game items. Shafts are used in more recipes than any other item.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output		Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Pointy Stick	Shaft			Campfire	Shaft
Fire Plough	Shaft			Wood Club	Shaft
Crude Torch	Shaft, Coal or Charcoal			Fishing Rod	String or Sinew, Shaft, Iron Nugget or Bone Fish Hook
Bow Drill	Shaft, Hemp Fiber or String or Sinew			Stone Axe	String or Hemp Fiber or Sinew, Loose Stone, Shaft
Stone Shovel	String or Hemp Fiber or Sinew, Loose Stone, Shaft			Arrow	String or Hemp Fiber or Sinew, Flint, Shaft, Feather
Ladder	Shaft, String or Hemp Fiber or Sinew			Stone Pickaxe	Hemp Fiber or String or Sinew, Loose Stone, Shaft
Bow	Shaft, String			Grate	Shaft, String or Hemp Fiber