Wooden Axe


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Attack damage | |
| Attack speed |
0.8 (1.25 seconds) |
| Durability | |
| Enchantability |
15 |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
No |
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A wooden axe is a variant of axe that is crafted from planks. It can be used to cut down trees faster, but also as a melee weapon that can disable shields.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Any Planks + Stick |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Chest | 1 | 75%{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.75, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
| Entrance chest | 1 | 55.1%{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }
| ||
Usage
Breaking
Wooden axes can break wood-related blocks faster than other tools. Breaking a block costs 1 durability.[note 1]
- ↑ Blocks that break instantly don't use up durability.
Stripping
Using a wooden axe on a log, wood block, bamboo block turns it into a stripped log, stripped wood, or stripped bamboo, respectively. This uses 1 point of the axe's durability.
Scraping
Using a wooden axe on a waxed or somewhat 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 wooden axe loses 2 durability points.
Java Edition
A wooden axe always disables a shield, although there should be a chance of it happening.[1] Damage done by a wooden axe is equivalent to that of a diamond sword, but it has a longer cooldown.
Bedrock Edition
Wooden axes attack instantly with no cooldown and do 1HP less damage than a wooden sword.
Repairing
Combining
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Damaged Wooden Axe | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability. |
| Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2× Damaged | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability. |
Unit repair
| Ingredients | Anvil recipe |
|---|---|
| Damaged + Any Planks |
A wooden axe can be repaired in an anvil by adding wooden planks, with each plank restoring 25% of the axe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two wooden axes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the axe's enchantments.
Enchantments
A wooden axe can receive the following enchantments:
| Name | Description | Max Level | Method | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | Increases the mining speed. | V | 10 | |
| Fortune[note 1] | Increases the amount of drops when mining. | III | 2 | |
| Silk Touch[note 1] | Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined. | I | 1 | |
| Sharpness[note 2] | Increases the damage dealt. | V | 10 | |
| Smite[note 2] | Increases the damage dealt to undead. | V | 5 | |
| Bane of Arthropods[note 2] | Increases the damage dealt to arthropods. | V | 5 | |
| Cleaving[note 2] | Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt. | III | ||
| Looting[note 3] | Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the axe. | III | 2 | |
| Knockback[note 3] | Increases the knockback dealt. | II | 5 | |
| Fire Aspect[note 3] | Ignites any targets hit by the axe and lights unlit candles, campfires, and Block of TNT when used. | II | 2 | |
| Sweeping Edge[note 3] | Increases the sweeping damage dealt. | III | 2 | |
| Unbreaking | Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. | III | 5 | |
| Mending | Repairs the axe when obtaining experience. | I | 2 | |
| Curse of Vanishing | The axe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. | I | 1 |
Fuel
Wooden axes can be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting one item per axe.
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Axe strips | Blocks | When an axe strips a log or wood block | item | subtitles | 0.9 | 1.0/0.85 | 16 | |
| Wax off | Blocks | When an axe unwaxes a block of copper | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.9/1.1/1.0 | 16 | |
| Axe scrapes | Blocks | When an axe deoxidizes a block of copper | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0/0.9/1.1 | 16 | |
| Item breaks | Players | When an axe's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Blocks | When an axe strips a log or wood block | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Blocks | When an axe strips a stem or hyphae block [sound 1] | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Players | When an axe strips a block of bamboo [sound 1] | step | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Players | When an axe strips a cherry log or cherry wood block [sound 1] | step | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Friendly Creatures Friendly Mobs | When an axe unwaxes a copper blocks and copper golem | copper | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Friendly Creatures Friendly Mobs | When an axe deoxidizes a copper blocks and copper golem | scrape | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When an axe's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 | |
- ↑ a b c MCPE-106552
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
wooden_axe | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
wooden_axe | 311 | Item | item |
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:
|
Video
History
| Java Edition Indev | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 20100128-2200 | ||||||
| An axe held by the player is now rendered to appear more 3D. | |||||||
| Wooden axes cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house. | |||||||
| 20100129-1447 | Wooden axes can now be crafted. | ||||||
| 20100131 | Wooden axes now have durability which is 33 points. | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.4 | release | Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w16a | Wooden axes are now found in the new bonus chests. | |||||
| 12w18a | Wooden axes can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | ||||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w21a | Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), wooden axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 1.7.1 | Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w34a | 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 | Wooden axes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter. | ||||||
| 15w34c | Wooden axes do 4HP more damage than previously. | ||||||
| Wooden axes now have an attack speed of 0.85. | |||||||
| Wooden axes can now temporarily disable shield use. | |||||||
| 15w35a | The damage of wooden axes has been reduced by 1HP. | ||||||
| The speed of wooden axes has been increased to 0.9. | |||||||
| 15w37a | Wooden axes now have an attack speed of 0.8. | ||||||
| 15w44a | The average yield of wooden axes from bonus chests has been decreased. | ||||||
| 1.13 | 18w07a | Using a wooden axe on a block of wood or log now turns it into a stripped block of wood or log. | |||||
| pre2 | Using a wooden axe on a bark now turns it into a stripped bark. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| 21w11a | Wooden axes can now be used to scrape wax and oxidation off copper blocks. | ||||||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Bamboo planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| Added block of bamboo, which when used with a wooden axe gives a block of stripped bamboo. | |||||||
| 1.19.4 Experiment | 23w07a | Cherry planks can now be used to craft wooden axes. | |||||
| Added cherry logs, which when used with an axe gives a stripped cherry log. | |||||||
| 1.20.3 Experiment | 23w45a | Wooden axes can now be found in entrance chests in trial chambers. | |||||
| Java Edition Combat Tests | |||||||
| 1.14.3 | The attack speed for wooden axes has been increased to 2. | ||||||
| Wooden axes now deal 1HP more damage than their sword counterparts. | |||||||
| 3 | The Chopping enchantment has been added for wooden axes, which adds 1 damage and 0.5 seconds (10 game ticks) of shield stunning per level and is mutually exclusive with Sharpness. | ||||||
| Wooden 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). | |||||||
| Wooden axes now take 1 damage when attacking instead of 2. | |||||||
| The Sweeping Edge enchantment can now be applied to wooden axes. | |||||||
| 4 | Knockback, Looting, and Fire Aspect enchantments can now be applied to wooden axes. | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.2.0 | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | Wooden axes can now be crafted with wooden planks and sticks. | ||||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Wooden axes can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||||
| build 11 | Wooden axes are now available in the creative inventory. | ||||||
| build 12 | Wooden axes have been removed from creative. | ||||||
| build 13 | Wooden axes have been re-added to creative mode. | ||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), wooden axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Wooden axes can now be found in bonus chests. | |||||
| 1.2.13 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Using a wooden axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.16.220 | beta 1.16.220.52 | Wooden axes can now be used to scrape wax off copper blocks. | |||||
| 1.18.30 | Preview 1.18.30.27 | Wooden axes can now temporarily disable shield use. This is not mentioned in the official changelog.[2] | |||||
| 1.20.60 Experiment | Preview 1.20.60.20 | Wooden axes can now be found in entrance chests 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 | |
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), wooden 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 wooden axes is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the item has less than 3 enchantments. | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | Using a wooden axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log. | ||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was . | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Wooden Axe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Renders
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Enchanted Wooden Axe
References
- ↑ MC-197537
- ↑ "We missed a change in recent changelogs for the Bedrock beta that you may like - we have now made a parity fix that makes shields get disabled for 5 seconds when attacked by an Axe-wielding mob or player. We will make sure to list this properly in the next beta :)" – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), March 17, 2022
| Pickaxe | |
|---|---|
| Shovel | |
| Axe | |
| Hoe | |
| Miscellaneous | |
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| Functional blocks | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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