Minecraft:Iron Axe

An iron axe is a variant of Minecraft:axe and can be crafted from iron ingots. It can be used to cut down trees faster, to strip Minecraft:logs and scrape copper-based blocks, and as a melee weapon that disables shields. It is the third-highest tier of axe, having higher mining efficiency, attack speed, durability, and enchantability than a copper axe.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Equipment

A vindicator spawns with an iron axe and has an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II, and 11.5% with Looting III) of dropping it upon death by the player. It is usually heavily damaged and is sometimes enchanted.

Raids

Template:IN, vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids have a 4.1% chance (5.12% on hard) to drop a badly-damaged iron axe, which is sometimes enchanted with a random enchantment. A vindicator can drop 2 iron axes, one from natural equipment and one from raid drops.

Villager gifts

Weaponsmith Minecraft:villagers occasionally throw iron axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.Template:Only

Usage

Breaking

Iron axes can break wood-related blocks faster than other tools. Breaking a block costs 1 durability.Template:Note <references group="note"/>

Stripping

Template:Ctrl an iron axe on a Minecraft:log, Minecraft:wood block, or block of bamboo turns it into a stripped log, stripped wood, or block of stripped bamboo, respectively. This uses 1 point of the axe's durability.

Scraping

Template:Ctrl an iron axe on a waxed or oxidized copper block removes the wax if it has any, or otherwise removes a level of oxidization. This uses 1 point of durability.

Weapon

When used as a weapon, an iron axe loses 2 durability points.

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Attacking a Minecraft:shield user with an axe disables the use of the shield for 5 seconds. Vindicators, piglin brutes, or other Minecraft:mobs with commands always disable the player's shield. Damage done when using an axe as a weapon is more than that of a Minecraft:sword of the same tier, though they take longer than a sword to recover, resulting in lower DPS.

Attack Damage	Attack Speed	Recovery time	DPS	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 critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.</ref>
Template:Hp	0.9	Template:Convert	8.1	Template:Hp

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Iron axes attack instantly with no cooldown and deal Template:Hp damage.

Repairing

Unit repair

An iron axe can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding iron ingot, with each ingot restoring 25% of the axe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two iron axes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the axe's enchantments.

Enchantments

An iron axe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	10
Fortune<ref group="note" name="exc">Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive</ref>	Increases the amount of 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
Sharpness<ref group="note" name="exc2">Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and CleavingTemplate:Upcoming are mutually exclusive.</ref>	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only Template:BlockLink	10
Smite<ref group=note name=exc2/>	Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:undead.	V	Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only Template:BlockLink	5
Bane of Arthropods<ref group="note" name=exc2/>	Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:arthropods.	V	Template:BlockLinkTemplate:Only Template:BlockLink	5
CleavingTemplate:Upcoming<ref group="note" name="exc2" />	Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink
LootingTemplate:Upcoming<ref group="note" name="sword">Fire Aspect, Looting, Knockback, and Sweeping Edge currently exist, but they can be used only for Minecraft:swords.</ref>	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the axe.	III	Template:BlockLink	2
KnockbackTemplate:Upcoming<ref group="note" name="sword" />	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Template:BlockLink	5
Fire AspectTemplate:Upcoming<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
Sweeping EdgeTemplate:Upcoming<ref group="note" name="sword" />	Increases the sweeping damage dealt.	III	Template:BlockLink	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	5
Mending	Repairs the axe when obtaining experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Curse of Vanishing	The axe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Sounds

Axe/Sounds

Data values

ID

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History

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