Stone Axe

Stone Axe

Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 9HP BE: 5HP
Attack speed‌	0.8 (1.25 seconds)
Durability	JE: 131 BE: 132
Enchantability	5
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A stone axe is a variant of axe that is crafted from cobblestone. It can be used to cut down trees faster, but also as a melee weapon, and it can disable shields.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any stone-tier block + Stick

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
	Bonus Chest	Chest	1	25% { "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.25, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Igloo	Chest	1	14.7% { "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14719442350968348, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Underwater Ruins	Small ruins chest	1	30.2% { "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3020312205494109, "structure": "Underwater Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }
[A]	Trial Chambers	Corridor chest	1	19.6% { "item": "Damaged Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.19614132283617636, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor chest" }
Bedrock Edition
	Bonus Chest	Chest	1	25% { "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.25, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Igloo	Chest	1	14.7% { "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14719442350968348, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }
	Underwater Ruins	Small ruins chest	1	30.2% { "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3020312205494109, "structure": "Underwater Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }
[A]	Trial Chambers	Corridor chest	1	19.6% { "item": "Damaged Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.19614132283617636, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor chest" }

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Novice Toolsmith	40%	25%	Emerald

Villager gifts

Toolsmith and weaponsmith villagers occasionally throw stone axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.‌

Usage

Breaking

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

Stripping

Using a stone 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 stone 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 stone 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]
9HP	0.8	1.25 seconds (25 game ticks)	7.2	594HP × 297

Bedrock Edition

Stone axes attack instantly with no cooldown and deal 5HP damage.

Repairing

Combining

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

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

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged  + Any stone-tier block	Stone Axe

A stone axe can be repaired in an anvil by adding either cobblestone, cobbled deepslate, or blackstone, with each block restoring 25% of the axe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two stone axes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the axe's enchantments.

Enchantments

A stone 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
Stone Axe	stone_axe	Item	item.minecraft.stone_axe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Stone Axe	stone_axe	315	Item	item.stone_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

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100128-2200				Added stone axes.
							Stone axes cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house.
			20100129-1447				Stone axes can now be crafted.
			20100131				Stone axes now have durability which is 65 points.
Java Edition
1.3.1			12w16a				Stone axes are now found in the new bonus chests.
1.6.1			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), stone axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
1.9			15w34a				Stone axes now use the attack speed combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for an axe is 1.2 seconds.
			15w34b				Stone axes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter.
			15w34c				Stone axes do 4HP more damage than previously.
							Stone axes now have an attack speed of 0.85.
							Stone axes now have a chance to temporarily disable shield use.
			15w35a				The damage of stone axes has been reduced by 1HP.
							The speed of stone axes has been increased to 0.9.
			15w37a				Stone axes now have an attack speed of 0.8.
							Stone axes now deal 9HP damage instead of 8HP.
			15w43a				Stone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests.
			15w44a				The average yield of stone axes from bonus chests has been decreased.
1.11			16w35a				A stone axe now has a 100% chance of disabling shield use, and the chance is no longer increased by Efficiency level and whether or not the user is sprinting.
1.13			18w07a				Using a stone axe on a block of wood or log now turns it into a stripped block of wood or log.
			18w09a				Stone axes now can generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
			pre2				Using a stone axe on a bark now turns it into a stripped bark.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of stone axes has been changed.
			19w11a				Toolsmith villagers now sell stone axes.
			19w13a				Toolsmith villagers now give stone axes to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
							Weaponsmith villagers now give stone axes to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.16			20w15a				Stone axes can now be crafted using blackstone.
1.17			21w08a				Stone axes can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate.
			21w11a				Stone axes can now be used to scrape wax and oxidation off copper blocks.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Damaged stone axes can now be found in corridor barrels in trial chambers.
1.20.5			24w03a				Stone axes can now receive sharpness, smite, and bane of arthropods through an enchanting table, rather than only through an anvil.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The attack speed for stone axes has been increased to 2.
							Stone axes now deal 1HP more damage than stone swords.
3							The Chopping enchantment has been added for stone axes, which adds 1 damage and 0.5 seconds (10 game ticks) of shield stunning per level and is mutually exclusive with Sharpness.
							Stone 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).
							Stone axes now take 1 damage when attacking instead of 2.
							The Sweeping Edge enchantment can now be applied to stone axes.
4							Knockback, Looting, and Fire Aspect enchantments can now be applied to stone axes.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added stone axes.
v0.2.0							Survival players no longer start with an infinite durability stone axe in the inventory.
v0.4.0							Removed stone axes from the creative inventory.
v0.11.0			build 11				Stone axes are now available in the Creative inventory.
			build 12				Stone axes have been removed from creative.
			build 13				Stone axes have been re-added to creative mode.
v0.12.1			build 1				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), stone axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Stone axes now can be found inside igloo basement chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Stone axes can now be found in bonus chests.
1.2.13			beta 1.2.13.8				Using a stone axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of stone axes has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Stone axes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers.
			beta 1.16.0.57				Stone axes can now be crafted using blackstone.
1.16.220			beta 1.16.220.52				Stone axes can now be used to scrape wax off copper blocks.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.30.27				Stone axes can now temporarily disable shield use. This is not mentioned in the official changelog.[1]
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Damaged stone axes can now be found in corridor barrels in trial chambers.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added stone axes.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), stone axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
TU36	CU25	1.28	1.28	1.28	Patch 7		The attack damage of stone axes is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the item has less than 3 enchantments.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Stone axes may now be found in igloo basement chests.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Using a stone axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log.
							Stone axes now can generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
			1.90				The texture of stone axes have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added stone axes.

Data history

Issues

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  Enchanted Stone Axe

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