Iron Pickaxe

Iron Pickaxe

Rarity tier	Common
Mining efficiency	6
Mining level	2
Attack damage	JE: 4HP BE: 5HP
Attack speed‌[JE only]	1.2 (0.833 seconds)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Durability	JE: 250 BE: 251
Enchantability	14
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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An iron pickaxe is a variant of pickaxe that is crafted from iron ingots. It is the third-highest tier of pickaxe, having higher mining efficiency, durability, attack damage, and enchantability than a copper pickaxe. It has a mining level of 2, allowing it to mine gold ore, redstone ore, emerald ore, and diamond ore.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot + Stick

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Iron Pickaxe	Mineshaft	Chest not located in a sulfur cave	1	7% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.07042253521126762, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest not located in a sulfur cave" }
	Mineshaft	Chest located in a sulfur cave	1	7% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.07042253521126762, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest located in a [[sulfur cave]]" }
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	11.9% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1189215578748346, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
		Storeroom chest	1	4% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.03967744439487575, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Storeroom chest" }
	Village	Toolsmith's chest	1	41.2% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.4118208436710489, "structure": "Village", "container": "Toolsmith's chest" }
		Weaponsmith's chest	1	22.9% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Enchanted Iron Pickaxe	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Iron Pickaxe	Mineshaft	Chest not located in a sulfur cave	1	7% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.07042253521126762, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest not located in a sulfur cave" }
	Mineshaft	Chest located in a sulfur cave	1	7% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.07042253521126762, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest located in a [[sulfur cave]]" }
	Stronghold	Altar chest	1	11.5% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11541180293889097, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Altar chest" }
		Storeroom chest	1	3.2% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.03196665510523944, "structure": "Stronghold", "container": "Storeroom chest" }
	Village	Toolsmith's chest	1	41.2% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.4118208436710489, "structure": "Village", "container": "Toolsmith's chest" }
		Weaponsmith's chest	1	22.9% { "item": "Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.22884863260948196, "structure": "Village", "container": "Weaponsmith's chest" }
Enchanted Iron Pickaxe	End City	Chest	1	12.7% { "item": "Enchanted Iron Pickaxe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }

Mob loot

In Bedrock Edition, pillagers and vindicators have a chance of dropping a damaged iron pickaxe when killed during a raid. The pickaxe has a 50% chance of being enchanted with random enchantment(s). Wandering traders also have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop an enchanted iron pickaxe (available enchantments listed below) when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Trading

Both toolsmiths and wandering traders can sell an enchanted iron pickaxe.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Special	13%	13%	6–20 × Emerald	Enchanted Iron Pickaxe	1	—	—
Toolsmith	Journeyman	40%	25%	8–22 × Emerald	Enchanted Iron Pickaxe	3	10	0.2

Usage

Mining

An iron pickaxe is used to break stone and metal-based materials faster. Breaking a block with an iron pickaxe consumes one use (one durability point). No durability is consumed for blocks that have a hardness value of 0, such as torches and flowers.

Mining level

Iron pickaxes have a mining level of 2. An iron pickaxe or better is required to mine the following blocks:

• Block of Diamond
• Block of Emerald
• Block of Gold
• Block of Raw Gold
• Deepslate Diamond Ore
• Deepslate Emerald Ore
• Deepslate Gold Ore
• Deepslate Redstone Ore
• Diamond Ore
• Emerald Ore
• Gold Ore
• Redstone Ore

Weapon

Java Edition

All pickaxes have an attack speed modifier of -2.8, meaning they take about 0.85 seconds to recover. Iron pickaxes do 4HP damage per attack, or 4.8 damage per second.

Bedrock Edition

All pickaxes attack instantly, with iron pickaxes doing 5HP damage per attack.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Damaged Iron Pickaxe		The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Notes
Damaged Iron Pickaxe		The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Iron Pickaxe + Iron Ingot	Iron Pickaxe

An iron pickaxe can be repaired in an anvil by adding iron ingots, with each ingot restoring 25% of the pickaxe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two iron pickaxes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the pickaxe's enchantments.

Enchantments

An iron pickaxe 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
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the pickaxe when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The pickaxe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget	Iron Pickaxe + Any fuel	0.1

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Item breaks	Players	When a pickaxe'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
	​Item breaks	Players	When a pickaxe's durability is exhausted	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Iron Pickaxe	iron_pickaxe	Item	item.minecraft.iron_pickaxe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Iron Pickaxe	iron_pickaxe	297	Item	item.iron_pickaxe.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)
	Isn't It Iron Pick?	Upgrade your Pickaxe	Have an iron pickaxe in the inventory.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100110				Added pickaxes. At this point, iron pickaxes are the only type ingame.
			20100128-2200				Pickaxes now have tiers. The existing pickaxes are now known as iron pickaxes.
							The texture of iron pickaxes has been changed.
			20100129-1447				Iron pickaxes can now be crafted.
			20100131-2156				Iron pickaxes now have durability which is 129.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Iron pickaxes' durability has been increased from 129 to 251.
1.8			Pre-release				Iron pickaxes are now found in the new stronghold storeroom chests, and in the new mineshaft chests.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Iron pickaxes can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
1.1			12w01a				Iron pickaxes are now found in the new village blacksmith chests.
1.3.1			12w21a				Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 iron pickaxe for 7–8 emeralds.
1.6.1			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), iron pickaxes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
1.8			14w02a				Tool smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted iron pickaxe for 9–11 emeralds.
							Unenchanted pickaxes are no longer sold by villagers.
1.9			15w31a				Enchanted iron pickaxes can now be found in chests in end cities.
			15w44a				The average yield of iron pickaxes in mineshaft chests has been increased.
1.11.1			16w50a				Iron pickaxes can now be smelted down into one iron nugget.
1.13.1			18w30b				The durability of iron pickaxes has been reduced from 251 to 250 due to the fixing of a bug.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of all pickaxes have been changed.
			18w50a				Iron pickaxes can now be found in chests in village toolsmith houses.
			19w11a				Weaponsmith villagers now sell 1 enchanted iron pickaxe for 8–22 emeralds.
1.20.2 Experiment Villager Trade Rebalance			23w31a				Wandering traders now have a chance to sell an enchanted iron pickaxe.
1.21.5			25w07a				The above change is no longer experimental and now available through normal gameplay.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added iron pickaxes. They actually function as tools despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.2							Iron pickaxes can now be crafted with iron ingots and sticks.
v0.14.0			build 1				Iron pickaxes can now be found inside minecart with chests in mineshafts.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Enchanted iron pickaxes can now be found in end cities.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Toolsmith villagers now sell enchanted iron pickaxes for 9-11 emeralds as their second tier trades.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Iron pickaxes are now smeltable.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Iron pickaxes can now be found in plains village weaponsmith houses.
							The textures of all pickaxes have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Iron pickaxes can now be found in village toolsmiths chests and in savanna, taiga, snowy taiga and desert village weaponsmith chests.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Trading has been changed, toolsmith villagers now have a 25% chance to sell an enchanted iron pickaxe for 3 emeralds as part of their third tier trades.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop iron pickaxes.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1		Added pickaxes (all five types).
TU14		1.04				1.0.1	Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 iron pickaxe for 7–8 emeralds.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), iron pickaxes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Tool smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted iron pickaxe for 9–11 emeralds.
							Unenchanted pickaxes are no longer sold by villagers.
TU36	CU25	1.28	1.28	1.28	Patch 7		The attack damage of iron pickaxes is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the item has less than 3 enchantments.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Enchanted iron pickaxes can now be found in chests in end cities.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Iron pickaxes are now smeltable.
			1.90				The textures of all pickaxes have been changed.
			1.91				Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop iron pickaxes.
							Trading has been changed, toolsmith villagers now sell an unenchanted iron pickaxe for 3 emeralds as part of their first tier trades.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added pickaxes.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 257.

Issues

Issues relating to "Iron Pickaxe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

In other media

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  An iron pickaxe as it appeared on A Minecraft Movie Live Event
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  Iron pickaxe in the Super Duper Graphics Pack
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  Concept art for a collectible pickaxe statue
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  A signed iron pickaxe replica by "the original team" at Mojang and C418