Minecraft:Axe

An axe is a Minecraft:tiered Minecraft:tool that can quickly break wood-related and certain Minecraft:plant-related blocks, or be used as a melee Minecraft:weapon that temporarily disables Minecraft:shields. Axes have unique interactions with Minecraft:logs and blocks crafted from Minecraft:copper, turning them into Minecraft:stripped logs or removing a level of Minecraft:oxidation/coat of Minecraft:wax, respectively.

Variants

There are seven axe variants:

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Obtaining

Wooden, golden, stone, copper, iron, and diamond axes are crafted using 2 Minecraft:sticks and 3 identical units of tool material. This recipe can be flipped horizontally.

Villager gifts

Template:Exclusive Toolsmith Minecraft:villagers occasionally throw stone axes at players with the Minecraft:Hero of the Village status effect.

Weaponsmith Minecraft:villagers occasionally throw either stone, gold, or iron axes at players with the Minecraft:Hero of the Village status effect.

Usage

Breaking

An axe is used to break Minecraft:logs, blocks derived from wood and some other blocks faster than by using other tools. An axe uses 1 durability to break 1 block. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.

Speed

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

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Attacking

Pressing Template:Control while holding an axe inflicts damage on both mobs and other players. Upon damaging a mob or player, the axe's Minecraft:durability decreases by 2.

Attacking a Minecraft:boat or a Minecraft:minecart with any axe tier instantly destroys it Template:Only, without decreasing the axe's durability.

Disabling shields

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Performing a crushing blow.

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Being hit by a crushing blow.

Axes have the special ability to do crushing blows<ref>Template:Citation</ref>, which disable the use of the target's shield for 5 seconds. Crushing blows are triggered only against targets that are actively holding their shield up.

Crushing blows affect all of the target's shields, rather than affecting only the one that was being used. Crushing blows do not trigger against targets whose shields are not yet past their 250ms activation delay. Crushing blows are triggered regardless of attack cooldown percentage and, unlike sweep attacks, they can be triggered at the same time as critical hits and sprint-knockback attacks.

Crushing blows work by inflicting a 5 second Minecraft:use cooldown. When a shield is stunned, it cannot be used by right clickingTemplate:Only or sneakingTemplate:Only. Performing a crushing blow does not consume durability from the axe, in the same way that other attacks do not consume durability when they're blocked by a shield.

Minecraft:Mobs that wield axes, such as Minecraft:vindicators or Minecraft:piglin brutes, perform crushing blows should they hit a player's shield. The melee attack of a Minecraft:warden also performs a crushing blow should it connect against a player's shield.

In the Minecraft:Java Edition Combat Tests, the stun duration from crushing blows is lengthened by the Minecraft:Cleaving Minecraft:enchantment, at an additional 0.5 seconds per level with a maximum level of III.

Statistics

Java Edition

Template:IN, wooden, stone, and copper axes have an attack speed of 0.8 (1.25 seconds), iron axes have an attack speed of 0.9 (1.111 seconds), and golden, diamond, and netherite axes have an attack speed of 1 (1 second). They have the following statistics:

Unenchanted
Type	Mining efficiency	Attack damage	Attack speed	DPS	Attack range	Hitbox margin	Durability	Lifetime damage inflicted<ref group="note">The formula to find the total lifetime damage is ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit. The durability is halved then ceiled because axes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1 durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.</ref>	Enchantability
Template:ItemSprite	2	Template:Hp	0.8 (1.25 seconds)	5.6	3 (3 blocks)	0	59	Template:Hp	15
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		8.4				Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	12	Template:Hp	1 (1 second)	7			32	Template:Hp	22
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		10.5				Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	4	Template:Hp	0.8 (1.25 seconds)	7.2			131	Template:Hp	5
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		10.8				Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	5	Template:Hp	0.8 (1.25 seconds)	7.2			190	Template:Hp	13
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		10.8				Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	6	Template:Hp	0.9 (1.111 seconds)	8.1			250	Template:Hp	14
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		12.15				Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	8	Template:Hp	1 (1 second)	9			1561	Template:Hp	10
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		13.5				Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	9	Template:Hp	1 (1 second)	10			2031	Template:Hp	15
Template:ItemSprite (critical)		Template:Hp		15				Template:Hp

Enchanted
Type	Base mining efficiency	Efficiency I	Efficiency II	Efficiency III	Efficiency IV	Efficiency V
Template:ItemSprite	2	4	7	12	19	28
Template:ItemSprite	4	6	9	14	21	30
Template:ItemSprite	5	7	10	15	22	31
Template:ItemSprite	6	8	11	16	23	32
Template:ItemSprite	8	10	13	18	25	34
Template:ItemSprite	9	11	14	19	26	35
Template:ItemSprite	12	14	17	22	29	38
Type	Base attack damage	Sharpness I	Sharpness II	Sharpness III	Sharpness IV	Sharpness V
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite (critical)	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite (critical)	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Type	Base attack damage	Smite / BoA I	Smite / BoA II	Smite / BoA III	Smite / BoA IV	Smite / BoA V
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite (critical)	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSpriteTemplate:ItemSprite (critical)	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Template:ItemSprite (critical)	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp

Bedrock Edition

Template:Rewrite Template:IN, axes have no attack cooldown, and have the following statistics:

Type	Damage	DPS
Template:ItemSprite Wooden	Template:Hp	8
Template:ItemSprite Golden
Template:ItemSprite Stone	Template:Hp	10
Template:ItemSprite Copper
Template:ItemSprite Iron	Template:Hp	12
Template:ItemSprite Diamond	Template:Hp	14
Template:ItemSprite Netherite	Template:Hp	16

Stripping and scraping

Template:Control an axe on a Minecraft:log (stem), Minecraft:wood (hyphae) or Minecraft:block of bamboo causes it to become a Minecraft:stripped log (stripped stem), Minecraft:stripped wood (stripped hyphae), or Minecraft:block of stripped bamboo. Template:Ctrl an axe on a copper-based block or a Minecraft:copper golem removes one layer of Minecraft:oxidation or wax from the block or the golem. This consumes one point of Minecraft:durability from the axe.

Template:IN, if the player holds a Minecraft:shield in their Minecraft:off-hand and attempts to strip/scrape a block with an axe, they will enable the shield instead of stripping/scraping with the axe. However, if the player sneaks, they can strip/scrape blocks as normal.

Repairing

Anvil repair

Template:Main Template:Repairing with Anvils An axe can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding units of the Minecraft:tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the axe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two axes of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the axe's Minecraft:enchantments, unlike by crafting to repair.

Enchantments

An axe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Minecraft:Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	10
Minecraft:Fortune<ref group="note" name="exc">Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive.</ref>	Increases the amount of Minecraft:drops when mining.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Silk Touch<ref group="note" name="exc" />	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	1
Minecraft:Sharpness<ref group="note" name="exc2">Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive with Cleaving.</ref>	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only Template:BlockLink	10
Minecraft:Smite<ref group=note name=exc2/>	Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:undead.	V	Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Bane of Arthropods<ref group="note" name=exc2/>	Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:arthropods.	V	Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:CleavingTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="exc2" />	Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink
Minecraft:LootingTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="sword">Fire Aspect, Looting, Knockback, and Sweeping Edge currently exist, but they cannot be applied to axes.</ref>	Increases the amount of Minecraft:drops when killing an entity with the axe.	III	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:KnockbackTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="sword" />	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Fire AspectTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="sword" />	Ignites any targets hit by the axe and lights unlit Minecraft:candles, Minecraft:campfires, and Block of TNT when Template:Control.	II	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Sweeping EdgeTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="sword" />	Increases the sweeping damage dealt.	III	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Mending	Repairs the axe when obtaining Minecraft:experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	The axe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Data values

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History

Trivia

• Before Minecraft:Java Edition 1.13, in the language files, axes were referred to as Hatchets.<ref name="1.8 lang">1.8/assets/minecraft/lang/en_US.lang, line 915: item.hatchetIron.name= Iron Axe</ref>
• Weaponsmith villagers gifting stone, iron and golden axes is a reference to the story The Honest Woodcutter, where a woodcutter dropped his axe into a river, and is successively provided a silver and a golden axe by the river god.Template:Cn

Gallery

Renders

• Enchanted Wooden Axe
  Enchanted Wooden Axe
• Enchanted Stone Axe
  Enchanted Stone Axe
• Enchanted Copper Axe
  Enchanted Copper Axe
• Enchanted Iron Axe
  Enchanted Iron Axe
• Enchanted Golden Axe
  Enchanted Golden Axe
• Enchanted Diamond Axe
  Enchanted Diamond Axe
• Enchanted Netherite Axe
  Enchanted Netherite Axe

Minecraft:Super Duper Graphics Pack

• Stone Axe
  Stone Axe

Other

• Axes in Template:Amcm.
  Axes in Template:Amcm.

See also

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External links

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