Copper Axe

Copper Axe

Rarity tier	Common
Mining efficiency	5
Attack damage	JE: 9HP BE: 5HP
Attack speed‌[JE only]	0.8 (1.25 seconds)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Durability	JE: 190 BE: 191
Enchantability	13
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A copper axe is a variant of axe crafted from copper ingots. 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 fourth-highest tier of axe, having higher mining efficiency, durability, and enchantability than a stone axe.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Copper Ingot + Stick

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Copper Axe	Abandoned Camp	Common chest	1	19% { "item": "Copper Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

Usage

Breaking

Copper axes can break wood-related blocks faster than other tools. Breaking a block costs 1 durability. Blocks that break instantly don't use up durability.

Stripping

Using a copper 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 copper axe on a waxed or oxidized copper block removes the wax if it has any, or otherwise removed a level of oxidization. This uses 1 point of durability.

Weapon

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
9HP	0.8	1.25 seconds (25 game ticks)	7.2	855HP × 427.5

Bedrock Edition

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

Repairing

Combining

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

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

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Copper Axe + Copper Ingot	Copper Axe

A copper axe can be repaired in an anvil by adding copper ingot, with each ingot restoring 25% of the axe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two copper axes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the axe's enchantments.

Enchantments

A copper axe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Fortune	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Silk Touch	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table Anvil	1
Sharpness	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table‌[BE only] Anvil	10
Smite	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table‌[BE only] Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Enchanting Table‌[BE only] Anvil	5
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

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Copper Nugget	Copper Axe + Any fuel

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Axe strips	Blocks	When an axe strips a log or wood block	use.wood	subtitles.item.axe.strip​	1.0	0.8
	​Block placed	Blocks	When an axe strips a stem or hyphae block	use.stem	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps	Players	When an axe strips a block of bamboo	step.bamboo_wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps	Players	When an axe strips a cherry log or cherry wood block	step.cherry_wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	0.8
	​Wax off	Friendly Mobs	When an axe unwaxes a copper blocks and copper golem ​[more information needed]	copper.wax.off	subtitles.item.axe.wax_off​	1.0	0.8–1.2
	​Axe scrapes	Friendly Mobs	When an axe deoxidizes a copper blocks and copper golem	scrape	subtitles.item.axe.scrape​	1.0	0.8–1.2
	​Item breaks	Players	When an axe's durability is exhausted	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Copper Axe	copper_axe	Item	item.minecraft.copper_axe

Bedrock Edition

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Copper Axe	copper_axe	772	Item	item.copper_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 15 waxed variants of copper blocks: The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.9			25w31a				Added copper axes.
26.3			snap1				Copper axes can now generate as part of abandoned camps in chests.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.100 Experiment Drop 3 2025			Preview 1.21.100.23				Added copper axes.
1.21.111			Preview 1.21.110.20				Copper axes from the "Drop 3 of 2025" experiment have now been fully implemented.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Copper axes can now generate as part of abandoned camps in chests.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have now been fully implemented.

Issues

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Gallery

In other media

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  Sunny holding a copper axe