Minecraft:Pickaxe

A pickaxe is a tiered Minecraft:tool that is required to mine most types of stone, Minecraft:ore, and blocks crafted from stone or ore. The mining level of a given pickaxe determines which blocks it can collect.

Variants

There are seven pickaxe variants:

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Obtaining

Crafting

Wooden, golden, stone, copper, iron, and diamond pickaxes are crafted using two Minecraft:sticks and three of the tier’s material.

Usage

Breaking

A pickaxe is used to break stone-based and metal-based materials faster. Different qualities of pickaxe are required to successfully harvest certain ores and blocks. For example, while Minecraft:stone can be mined with any pickaxe, gold ore must be mined with an iron pickaxe, diamond pickaxe, or netherite pickaxe, or else the player harvests no item.

Speed

Different pickaxes also mine many materials at different speeds due to differing mining efficiencies. The following table shows the number of seconds required to break each type of block:

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Times to break blocks by pickaxe

Statistics

Java Edition

in Template:Editions, pickaxes have an attack speed of 1.2 (0.833 seconds), and have the following statistics:

Unenchanted
Type	Mining efficiency	Mining level	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 pickaxes 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
	2	0	Template:Hp	1.2 (0.833 seconds)	2.4	3 (3 blocks)	0	59	Template:Hp	15
(critical)			Template:Hp		3.6				Template:Hp
	12	0	Template:Hp		2.4			32	Template:Hp	22
(critical)			Template:Hp		3.6				Template:Hp
	4	1<ref group=note name=mininglevel1></ref>	Template:Hp		3.6			131	Template:Hp	5
(critical)			Template:Hp		5.4				Template:Hp
	5	1<ref group=note name=mininglevel1></ref>	Template:Hp		3.6			190	Template:Hp	13
(critical)			Template:Hp		5.4				Template:Hp
	6	2<ref group=note name=mininglevel2></ref>	Template:Hp		4.8			250	Template:Hp	14
(critical)			Template:Hp		7.2				Template:Hp
	8	3<ref group=note name=mininglevel3></ref>	Template:Hp		6			1561	Template:Hp	10
(critical)			Template:Hp		9				Template:Hp
	9	4<ref group=note name=mininglevel4></ref>	Template:Hp		7.2			2031	Template:Hp	15
(critical)			Template:Hp		10.8				Template:Hp

Enchanted
Type	Base mining efficiency	Efficiency I	Efficiency II	Efficiency III	Efficiency IV	Efficiency V
	2	4	7	12	19	28
	4	6	9	14	21	30
	5	7	10	15	22	31
	6	8	11	16	23	32
	8	10	13	18	25	34
	9	11	14	19	26	35
	12	14	17	22	29	38

Bedrock Edition

Template:Message box Template:Article other in Template:Editions, pickaxes have no attack cooldown, and have the following statistics:

Material
Attack Damage	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Damage/Second (DPS)	6	6	8	8	10	12	14
Durability	60	33	132	191	251	1562	2032
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 pickaxes 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	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp

Repairing

Anvil repair

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Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Pickaxes can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding units of the tier's repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the pickaxe's maximum durability, rounded down.

Enchantments

A pickaxe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect 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	redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	2
Minecraft:Silk Touch<ref group="note" name="exc" />	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	redirect Template:blockLink Template:Redr redirect Template:blockLink	5
Mending	Repairs the pickaxe when obtaining experience.	I	redirect Template:blockLink	2
Curse of Vanishing	The pickaxe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	redirect Template:blockLink	1

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Videos

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History

Gallery

Renders

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

Minecraft:Super Duper Graphics Pack

• Stone Pickaxe
  Stone Pickaxe
• Iron Pickaxe
  Iron Pickaxe
• Golden Pickaxe
  Golden Pickaxe

Screenshots

• A naturally generated pickaxe.
  A naturally generated pickaxe.

In other media

• Official T-shirt artwork "Live in Your World" featuring an iron pickaxe made by JINX.
  Official T-shirt artwork "Live in Your World" featuring an iron pickaxe made by JINX.
• Official T-shirt artwork of a pickaxe made by JINX.
  Official T-shirt artwork of a pickaxe made by JINX.
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• Foam diamond pickaxe.
  Foam diamond pickaxe.

External links

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