Pickaxe


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Crafting

Pickaxes are crafted using 2 sticks Stick Type Raw materials Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 280 hex: 118 bin: 100011000 Name stick A stick is an item used for crafting many tools and items. Contents minecraft and 3 units of a tool material.

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe Description
Any Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting minecraft or
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The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Natural generation

Wooden pickaxes can be found in 75.0% of bonus chests in groups of 1.

Stone pickaxes can be found in 25.0% of bonus chests in groups of 1.

Iron pickaxes can be found in 26.0% of village blacksmith chests, 7.0% of chest minecarts in abandoned mineshafts, 12.2% of stronghold altar chests, and 4.0% of stronghold storeroom chests, all in groups of 1.

Enchanted iron pickaxes can be found in 13.4% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Enchanted diamond pickaxes can be found in 13.4% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Trading

Tool Smith villagers sell enchanted iron pickaxes for 9⃢₀ₓ11 emeralds as one of their second tier trades, and enchanted diamond pickaxes for 12⃢₀ₓ15 emeralds as one of their third tier trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5⃢₀ₓ19.

Mining

A pickaxe is used to break stone and metal based materials faster. When a block is broken using a pickaxe, the pickaxe uses 1 durability. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability. Pickaxes have different amounts of uses based on the type:

  • Golden: 33
  • Wooden: 60
  • Stone: 132
  • Iron: 251
  • Diamond: 1562

Different qualities of pickaxe are required to successfully harvest certain ores and blocks. For instance, while stone can be mined with any pickaxe, gold ore must be mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe, or else the player will harvest no ore. Different pickaxes also mine many materials at different speeds:

Speed

The following table shows the time it takes to break each type of block.

  • A red background indicates that the block cannot be harvested with that type of pickaxe.
  • A yellow background indicates that the block cannot be harvested with that type of pickaxe, but still drops something.
  • A green background indicates that the block can be harvested with that type of pickaxe.

Emerald ore can also be mined with a stone pickaxe.Pocketedition only

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    Types

    Listed from lowest mining strength to highest, the materials are:

    • Wood
    • Gold
    • Stone
    • Iron
    • Diamond


    Crafting

    Wooden Pickaxe
    Gold Pickaxe
    Wooden Plank
    Wooden Plank
    Wooden Plank
    Gold Ingot
    Gold Ingot
    Gold Ingot
    None
    Stick
    None None
    Stick
    None
    None
    Stick
    None None
    Stick
    None