Wooden Axe

Wooden Axe

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.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks + Stick

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Wooden Axe	Abandoned Camp	Barrel	1	33.3% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.33333333333333337, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }
	Bonus Chest	Chest	1	75% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.75, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Trial Chambers	Entrance chest	1	55.1% { "item": "Wooden Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }

Usage

Breaking

Wooden axes can break wood-related blocks faster than other tools. Breaking a block costs 1 durability.

Stripping

Using a wooden axe on a log, wood block, bamboo block turns it into a stripped log, stripped wood, or stripped bamboo, respectively. This uses 1 point of the axe's durability.

Scraping

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

Weapon

When used as a weapon, a wooden axe loses 2 durability points.

Java Edition

A wooden axe always disables a shield, although there should be a chance of it happening. Damage done by a wooden axe is equivalent to that of a diamond sword, but it has a longer cooldown.

Bedrock Edition

Wooden axes attack instantly with no cooldown and do 1HP less damage than a wooden sword.

Repairing

Combining

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

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

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Wooden Axe + Any Planks	Wooden Axe

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

Enchantments

A wooden 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
Cleaving​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]	Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil
Looting​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the axe.	III	Anvil	2
Knockback​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Anvil	5
Fire Aspect​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]	Ignites any targets hit by the axe and lights unlit candles, campfires, and Block of TNT when used.	II	Anvil	2
Sweeping Edge​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]	Increases the sweeping damage dealt.	III	Anvil	2
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

Fuel

Wooden axes can be used as fuel in a furnace, smelting one item per axe.

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
Wooden Axe	wooden_axe	Item	item.minecraft.wooden_axe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Wooden Axe	wooden_axe	311	Item	item.wooden_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 Indev
0.31			20100128-2200				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.
			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.
							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.
			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.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of wooden axes have been changed.
1.16			20w06a				Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden axes.
			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.
							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.
							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.
							Added pale oak logs, which when used with an axe gives a stripped pale oak log.
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.
							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.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							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				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.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Wooden axes can now be found in entrance chests in trial chambers.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Wooden axes can now generate as part of abandoned camps in barrels.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

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	1.0.1	Added wooden axes.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			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				The texture of wooden axes have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added wooden axes.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was ​[more information needed].

Issues

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