Minecraft:Pickaxe

A pickaxe is a Minecraft:tiered Minecraft:tool that is required to mine most types of stone, Minecraft:ore, and blocks crafted from stone or ore. The Minecraft: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, Minecraft:gold ore must be mined with an Minecraft:iron pickaxe, Minecraft:diamond pickaxe, or Minecraft: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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Statistics

Java Edition

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

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

Bedrock Edition

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

Material	Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSprite	Template:ItemSprite
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

Template:Repairing with Anvils 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 Minecraft: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:Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Mending	Repairs the pickaxe when obtaining Minecraft:experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	The pickaxe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Sounds

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Data values

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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 Minecraft:JINX.
  Official T-shirt artwork "Live in Your World" featuring an iron pickaxe made by Minecraft: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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