Wooden Axe

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For other uses, see Axe (disambiguation).

Wooden Axe

👁 Wooden Axe.png: Infobox image for Minecraft item 'Wooden Axe'

👁 Enchanted Wooden Axe.gif: Infobox image for Minecraft item 'Wooden Axe'

👁 Invicon Wooden Axe.png: Inventory sprite for Wooden Axe in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Wooden Axe When in Main Hand: 7 Attack Damage 0.8 Attack Speed

Rarity tier	Common
Mining efficiency	2
Attack damage	JE: 7HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 BE: 4HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️
Attack speed‌^{[JE only]}	0.8 (1.25 seconds)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Durability	JE: 59 BE: 60
Enchantability	15
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A wooden axe is an early-game variant of axe that is crafted from planks. It can be used to cut down trees faster, to strip logs and scrape copper-based blocks, and as a melee weapon that disables shields. It is the seventh-highest tier of axe, having the lowest mining efficiency, the lowest attack damage alongside golden axes, and having the lowest attack speed alongside stone and copper axes. It can be used as fuel in a furnace, smoker, or blast furnace.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
👁 Image	👁 Image Bonus Chest	Chest	1	75% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.75, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
👁 Image	👁 Image Trial Chambers	Entrance chest	1	55.1% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }
Java Edition 26.3
👁 Image	👁 Image Abandoned Camp	Barrel	1	33.6% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }
Bedrock Edition 26.40
👁 Image	👁 Image Abandoned Camp	Barrel	1	33.6% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

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

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Axe strips	Blocks	When an axe strips a log or wood block	`item.axe.strip`	`subtitles.item.axe.strip`	0.9	1.0/0.85	16
Wax off	Blocks	When an axe unwaxes a block of copper	`item.axe.wax_off`	`subtitles.item.axe.wax_off`	1.0	0.9/1.1/1.0	16
Axe scrapes	Blocks	When an axe deoxidizes a block of copper	`item.axe.scrape`	`subtitles.item.axe.scrape`	1.0	1.0/0.9/1.1	16
Item breaks	Players	When an axe's durability is exhausted	`entity.item.break`	`subtitles.entity.item.break`	0.8	0.8–1.2	16


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

Java Edition Indev
0.31	20100128-2200	👁 Image Added wooden axes.
		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.
	20100131-2156	Wooden axes now have durability which is 33 points.
Java Edition Beta
1.2		Wooden axes' durability has been increased from 33 to 59.
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.
1.3.1	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👁 💔 .
	15w35a	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.
1.13	pre2	Using a wooden axe on a bark now turns it into a stripped bark.
1.13.1	18w30b	The durability of wooden axes has been decreased from 60 to 59 due to the fix of a bug.^[2]
1.14	18w43a	👁 Image The texture of wooden axes have been changed.
1.16	20w06a	Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden axes.
1.16	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 Update 1.20	22w42a	Bamboo planks can now be used to craft wooden axes.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20	22w42a	Added block of bamboo, which when used with a wooden axe gives a block of stripped bamboo.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20	23w07a	Cherry planks can now be used to craft wooden axes.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20	23w07a	Added cherry logs, which when used with an axe gives a stripped cherry log.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21	23w45a	Wooden axes can now be found in entrance chests in trial chambers.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop	24w40a	Pale oak planks can now be used to craft wooden axes.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop	24w40a	Added pale oak logs, which when used with an axe gives a stripped pale oak log.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3	snap1	Wooden axes can now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3		The attack speed for wooden axes has been increased to 2.
1.14.3		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		👁 Image Added wooden axes. They actually function as tools despite being unobtainable by normal means.
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	👁 Image The texture of wooden axes has been changed.
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.^[3]
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21	Preview 1.20.60.20	Wooden axes can now be found in entrance chests in trial chambers.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026	Preview 26.40.27	Wooden axes can now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels.

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	👁 Image Added wooden axes.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 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.
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				👁 Image The texture of wooden axes have been changed.

v t e Tools
Pickaxe	👁 Image Wooden 👁 Image Stone 👁 Image Copper 👁 Image Iron 👁 Image Golden 👁 Image Diamond 👁 Image Netherite
Shovel	👁 Image Wooden 👁 Image Stone 👁 Image Copper 👁 Image Iron 👁 Image Golden 👁 Image Diamond 👁 Image Netherite
Axe	👁 Image 👁 Image Stone 👁 Image Copper 👁 Image Iron 👁 Image Golden 👁 Image Diamond 👁 Image Netherite
Hoe	👁 Image Wooden 👁 Image Stone 👁 Image Copper 👁 Image Iron 👁 Image Golden 👁 Image Diamond 👁 Image Netherite
Miscellaneous	👁 Image Brush 👁 Image Fishing Rod 👁 Image Carrot on a Stick 👁 Image Warped Fungus on a Stick 👁 Image Flint and Steel 👁 Image Shears

v t e Wood
Features	👁 Image Tree 👁 Image Fallen 👁 Image with Vines‌^{[BE only]} 👁 Image Bush 👁 Image Huge Fungus
Sources	👁 Image Log 👁 Image Stripped 👁 Image Wood 👁 Image Stripped 👁 Image Stem 👁 Image Stripped 👁 Image Hyphae 👁 Image Stripped 👁 Image Bamboo 👁 Image Stripped 👁 Image Sapling
Building blocks	👁 Image Planks 👁 Image Bamboo Mosaic 👁 Image Stairs 👁 Image Slab 👁 Image Fence
Functional blocks	👁 Image Chest 👁 Image Barrel 👁 Image Crafting Table 👁 Image Creaking Heart 👁 Image Door 👁 Image Trapdoor 👁 Image Fence Gate 👁 Image Pressure Plate 👁 Image Button 👁 Image Scaffolding 👁 Image Sign 👁 Image Hanging 👁 Image Shelf
Tools	👁 Image Pickaxe 👁 Image Shovel 👁 Image Hoe
Weapons	👁 Image 👁 Image Sword 👁 Image Spear
Vehicles	👁 Image Boat 👁 Image with Chest 👁 Image Raft 👁 Image with Chest
Mobs	👁 Image Creaking
Wood types	👁 Image Oak 👁 Image Spruce 👁 Image Birch 👁 Image Jungle 👁 Image Acacia 👁 Image Dark Oak 👁 Image Mangrove 👁 Image Cherry 👁 Image Pale Oak 👁 Image Bamboo 👁 Image Crimson 👁 Image Warped 👁 Image Poplar^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

URL: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Wooden_Axe

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Wooden Axe

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