Netherite Axe

Netherite Axe

Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 10HP BE: 8HP
Attack speed‌	1 (1 second)
Durability	JE: 2031 BE: 2032
Enchantability	15
Renewable	No
Stackable	No

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A netherite axe is a variant of axe that is obtained by upgrading a diamond axe to netherite. It can be used to cut down trees faster, as well as a melee weapon that can disable shields.

Obtaining

Upgrading

Like other diamond tools, a diamond axe can be upgraded to a netherite axe, increasing its durability and slightly increasing its mining speed and attack damage, as well as granting resistance to fire and lava when dropped as an item.

Ingredients	Smithing recipe
Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Axe + Netherite Ingot

Usage

Breaking

Netherite axes can break wood-related blocks faster than other tools. Breaking a block costs 1 durability.^{[note 1]}

Stripping

Using a netherite axe on a log, 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

Using a netherite 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, a netherite axe loses 2 durability points.

Java Edition

Attacking a shield user with an axe disables the use of the shield for 5 seconds. Vindicators, piglin brutes, or other mobs with commands always disable the player's shield. Damage done when using an axe as a weapon is more than that of a 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[note 1]
10HP	1.0	1 second (20 game ticks)	10.0	10160HP × 5080

Bedrock Edition

Netherite axes attack instantly with no cooldown and deal 8HP damage.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Damaged Netherite Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
2× Damaged Netherite Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged  + Netherite Ingot	Netherite Axe

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

Enchantments

A netherite axe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Fortune[note 1]	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Silk Touch[note 1]	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table Anvil	1
Sharpness[note 2]	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table‌ Anvil	10
Smite[note 2]	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table‌ Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods[note 2]	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Enchanting Table‌ Anvil	5
Cleaving​[note 2]	Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil
Looting​[note 3]	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the axe.	III	Anvil	2
Knockback​[note 3]	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Anvil	5
Fire Aspect​[note 3]	Ignites any targets hit by the axe and lights unlit candles, campfires, and Block of TNT when used.	II	Anvil	2
Sweeping Edge​[note 3]	Increases the sweeping damage dealt.	III	Anvil	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the axe when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The axe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Netherite Axe	netherite_axe	Item	item.minecraft.netherite_axe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Netherite Axe	netherite_axe	607	Item	item.netherite_axe.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool.	Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.	15	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Wax Off	Scrape Wax off of a Copper block!	Use an axe to revert any of these 9 waxed variants of copper blocks: Block of Copper Chiseled Copper Copper Bulb Copper Door Copper Grate Copper Trapdoor Cut Copper Cut Copper Slab Cut Copper Stairs The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages.

Video

History

February 20, 2024							A video about bugs shows early textures of netherite items, including axes.
Java Edition
1.16			20w06a				Added netherite axes.
							Netherite axes are obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
			20w10a				The texture of netherite axes has been changed.
							Netherite axes can no longer be crafted.
							Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
1.17			21w11a				Netherite axes can now be used to scrape wax and oxidation off copper blocks.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Upgrading diamond axes to netherite axes now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template.
Java Edition Combat Tests
6							The attack speed for netherite axes has been increased to 2.
							Netherite axes now deal 1HP more damage than netherite swords.
							Netherite axes can now be enchanted with Cleaving, which adds 1 damage and 0.5 seconds (10 game ticks) of shield stunning per level and is mutually exclusive with Sharpness.
							Netherite axes now always disable shields for 1.6 seconds (32 game ticks), instead of having a 25% to disable them for 5 seconds (100 game ticks).
							Netherite axes now take 1 damage when attacking instead of 2.
							The Sweeping Edge enchantment can now be applied to netherite axes.
							Knockback, Looting, and Fire Aspect enchantments can now be applied to netherite axes.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Added netherite axes.
							Netherite axes are obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
			beta 1.16.0.57				Netherite axes can no longer be crafted.
							Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
							Netherite axes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests.
1.16.220			beta 1.16.220.52				Netherite axes can now be used to scrape wax off copper blocks.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.30.27				Netherite axes can now temporarily disable shield use. This is not mentioned in the official changelog.[1]

Issues

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Gallery

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  Enchanted Netherite Axe

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