Minecraft:Iron Axe

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

Obtaining

Mob loot

Equipment

A Minecraft: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, Minecraft:vindicators and Minecraft: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

Minecraft:Weaponsmith Minecraft:villagers occasionally throw iron axes at players with the Minecraft: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 Minecraft:block of bamboo turns it into a Minecraft:stripped log, Minecraft:stripped wood, or Minecraft: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 Minecraft: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. Minecraft:Vindicators, Minecraft: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 Minecraft: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 Minecraft:enchantments.

Enchantments

An iron 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, Bane of Arthropods, and CleavingTemplate:Upcoming are mutually exclusive.</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:Upcoming<ref group="note" name="exc2" />	Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink
Minecraft: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 Minecraft:drops when killing an entity with the axe.	III	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:KnockbackTemplate:Upcoming<ref group="note" name="sword" />	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft: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
Minecraft:Sweeping EdgeTemplate:Upcoming<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

Sounds

Axe/Sounds

Data values

ID

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History