Axe

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An axe is a tiered tool that can quickly break wood-related and certain plant-related blocks, or be used as a melee weapon that temporarily disables shields.

There are seven axe variants:

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  Wooden Axe
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  Golden Axe
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  Stone Axe
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  Copper Axe
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  Iron Axe
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  Diamond Axe
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  Netherite Axe

Wooden, golden, stone, copper, iron, and diamond axes are crafted using 2 sticks and 3 identical units of tool material. This recipe can be flipped horizontally.

{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.75, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09750000000000003, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.25, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14719442350968348, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28499313621704003, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }

{ "item": "Iron Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }

{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

{ "item": "Iron Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.75, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.09750000000000003, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

{ "item": "Enchanted Golden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.25, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14719442350968348, "structure": "Igloo", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Stone Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.28499313621704003, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Small ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Iron Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }

{ "item": "Iron Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }

{ "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

{ "item": "Iron Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Secret chest" }

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

Weaponsmith villagers occasionally throw either stone, gold, or iron axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.

An axe is used to break 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.

The following table summarizes the speed at which axes of different qualities perform.

• Proper tool, but does not drop itself (it drops nothing or another item).
• Proper tool and drops itself.

Pressing 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 boat or a minecart with any axe tier instantly destroys it ‌^{[Java Edition only]}, without decreasing the axe's durability.

Axes have the special ability to do crushing blows^[1], 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 use cooldown. When a shield is stunned, it cannot be used by right clicking‌^{[Java Edition only]} or sneaking‌^{[Bedrock Edition 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.

In Java Edition, a player whose shield is stunned becomes immune to knockback for several ticks.^[2]

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 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.

In Java Edition, 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:

In Bedrock Edition, axes have no attack cooldown, and have the following statistics:

Using an axe on a log (stem), wood (hyphae) or block of bamboo causes it to become a stripped log (stripped stem), stripped wood (stripped hyphae), or block of stripped bamboo. Using 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 Java Edition, if the player holds a 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.

An axe can be repaired in an 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.

An axe can receive the following enchantments:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition: