Minecraft:Axe
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An axe is a tiered Minecraft:tool that can quickly break wood-related and certain 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 copper, turning them into stripped logs or removing a level of oxidation/coat of 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.
Crafting
Smithing
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Generated loot
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Villager gifts
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Weaponsmith Minecraft:villagers occasionally throw either stone, gold, or iron axes at players with the 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 {{#vardefine: control | left click on mouse or right trigger on gamepad }}attack while holding an axe inflicts damage on both mobs and other players. Upon damaging a mob or player, the axe's 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
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 vindicators or 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 Java Edition Combat Tests, the stun duration from crushing blows is lengthened by the Cleaving enchantment, at an additional 0.5 seconds per level with a maximum level of III.
Statistics
Java Edition
in Template:Editions, 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:
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| 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> |
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| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 2 | Template:Hp | 0.8 (1.25 seconds) | 5.6 | 3 (3 blocks) | 0 | 59 | Template:Hp | 15 |
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| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 12 | Template:Hp | 1 (1 second) | 7 | 32 | Template:Hp | 22 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". (critical) | Template:Hp | 10.5 | Template:Hp | ||||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 4 | Template:Hp | 0.8 (1.25 seconds) | 7.2 | 131 | Template:Hp | 5 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". (critical) | Template:Hp | 10.8 | Template:Hp | ||||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 5 | Template:Hp | 0.8 (1.25 seconds) | 7.2 | 190 | Template:Hp | 13 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". (critical) | Template:Hp | 10.8 | Template:Hp | ||||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 6 | Template:Hp | 0.9 (1.111 seconds) | 8.1 | 250 | Template:Hp | 14 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". (critical) | Template:Hp | 12.15 | Template:Hp | ||||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 8 | Template:Hp | 1 (1 second) | 9 | 1561 | Template:Hp | 10 | ||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". (critical) | Template:Hp | 13.5 | Template:Hp | ||||||
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 9 | Template:Hp | 1 (1 second) | 10 | 2031 | Template:Hp | 15 | ||
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| Type | Base mining efficiency | Efficiency I | Efficiency II | Efficiency III | Efficiency IV | Efficiency V |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 28 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 4 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 21 | 30 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 5 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 31 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 6 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 23 | 32 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 8 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 25 | 34 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 9 | 11 | 14 | 19 | 26 | 35 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". | 12 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 29 | 38 |
| Type | Base attack damage | Sharpness I | Sharpness II | Sharpness III | Sharpness IV | Sharpness V |
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| Type | Base attack damage | Smite / BoA I | Smite / BoA II | Smite / BoA III | Smite / BoA IV | Smite / BoA V |
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Bedrock Edition
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| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". Iron | Template:Hp | 12 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". Diamond | Template:Hp | 14 |
| Script error: No such module "SpriteFile". Netherite | Template:Hp | 16 |
Stripping and scraping
{{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}Using an axe on a Minecraft:log (stem), Minecraft:wood (hyphae) or block of bamboo causes it to become a stripped log (stripped stem), stripped wood (stripped hyphae), or block of stripped bamboo. Template:Ctrl an axe on a copper-based block or a copper golem removes one layer of oxidation or wax from the block or the golem. This consumes one point of durability from the axe.
in Template:Editions, if the player holds a Minecraft:shield in their 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
Combining
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Anvil repair
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Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing An axe can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding units of the 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 enchantments, unlike by crafting to repair.
Enchantments
An axe can receive the following enchantments:
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| Efficiency | Increases the mining speed. | V |
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| Fortune<ref group="note" name="exc">Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive.</ref> | Increases the amount of drops when mining. | III |
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| Minecraft:Silk Touch<ref group="note" name="exc" /> | Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined. | I |
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| Sharpness<ref group="note" name="exc2">Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive with Cleaving.</ref> | Increases the damage dealt. | V |
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| Smite<ref group=note name=exc2/> | Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:undead. | V |
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| Bane of Arthropods<ref group="note" name=exc2/> | Increases the damage dealt to Minecraft:arthropods. | V |
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| CleavingTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="exc2" /> | Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt. | III |
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| 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 drops when killing an entity with the axe. | III |
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| KnockbackTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="sword" /> | Increases the knockback dealt. | II |
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| 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 {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}used. | II |
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| Sweeping EdgeTemplate:Only<ref group="note" name="sword" /> | Increases the sweeping damage dealt. | III |
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| Unbreaking | Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. | III |
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| Mending | Repairs the axe when obtaining experience. | I |
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| Curse of Vanishing | The axe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. | I |
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Sounds
Data values
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Achievements
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Advancements
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History
Development
Java Edition
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Java Edition Combat Tests
Issues
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Trivia
- Before 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.
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Gallery
Renders
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Enchanted Wooden Axe
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Enchanted Stone Axe
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Enchanted Copper Axe
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Enchanted Iron Axe
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Enchanted Golden Axe
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Enchanted Diamond Axe
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Enchanted Netherite Axe
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Stone Axe
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See also
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Notes
References
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External links
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