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Minecraft 2 Obtaining
Minecraft Dungeons 2.1 Crafting
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Minecraft Earth 2.3 Generated loot
Minecraft: Story Mode
2.4 Mob loot
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2.6 Villager gifts
Java Edition 3 Usage
Latest: 1.21.1 3.1 Mining
Dev: 24w34a 3.1.1 Speed Rarity tier Common
Upcoming: 1.21.2 3.2 Weapon In Java Edition:
Bedrock Edition 3.2.1 Java Edition
Latest: 1.21.21 Wood: 59
3.2.2 Bedrock Edition
Preview: 1.21.30.24 Stone: 131
3.3 Repairing
Upcoming: 1.21.30 Iron: 250
3.3.1 Grinding
Golden: 32
3.3.2 Unit repair Diamond: 1,561
Useful pages
3.4 Enchantments Netherite: 2,031
Trading 3.5 Fuel Durability
In Bedrock Edition:
Brewing
3.6 Smelting ingredient Wood: 60
Enchanting
3.7 Piglins Stone: 132
Mobs
Blocks 4 Sounds Iron: 251
Items 5 Data values Golden: 33
Crafting 5.1 ID Diamond: 1,562
Smelting 6 Achievements Netherite: 2,032
Tutorials 7 Advancements
Resource packs Netherite: No
8 Video Renewable
Redstone circuits Others: Yes
9 History
10 Trivia Stackable No
Tools
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There are six pickaxe variants:
Wooden, stone, iron, golden, and diamond pickaxes are crafted using 2 sticks and 3 identical units of tool material.
Any Planks or
Iron Ingot or
Gold Ingot or
Diamond +
Stick
Any stone-tier
block + Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably.
Stick
Matching Damaged The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an
Pickaxes extra 5% of the tool type's total durability.
Like other diamond tools, a diamond pickaxe can be upgraded to a netherite pickaxe, increasing its durability and slightly
increasing its mining speed, as well as granting resistance to fire and lava when dropped as an item.
Netherite Upgrade +
Diamond Pickaxe +
Netherite Ingot
Chanc [hide]
Item Structure Container Quantity
e
Java Edition
Mineshaft Chest 1 7%
Bedrock Edition
Mineshaft Chest 1 7%
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).
Stone
Probability
Villager Villager wants Player receives
JE BE
Iron
Probability
Villager Villager wants Player receives
JE BE
1. ↑ When creating an enchantment offer, the game uses a random enchantment level from 5 – 19. The enchantments
are never treasure enchantments.
Diamond
Probability
Villager Villager wants Player receives
JE BE
1. ↑ When creating an enchantment offer, the game uses a random enchantment level from 5 – 19. The enchantments
are never treasure enchantments.
In Java Edition, toolsmith villagers throw stone pickaxes at players under the Hero of the Village effect.
A pickaxe is used to break stone-based and metal-based materials faster. Breaking a block with a pickaxe consumes one
use (one durability point). No durability is consumed for blocks that break instantly, like torches and flowers. Pickaxes have
different amounts of uses based on the type:
Different qualities of pickaxe are required to successfully harvest certain ores and blocks. For example, while stone can be
mined with any pickaxe, gold ore must be mined with an iron pickaxe, diamond pickaxe, or netherite pickaxe, or else the
player harvests no ore. Different pickaxes also mine many materials at different speeds:
The following table shows the number of seconds required 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.
1. ↑ Chemistry tables are slow to break by hand, similar to blocks that require a pickaxe to mine. However, they still
drop as items.
A pickaxe loses 2 points of durability when used as a weapon. Pickaxes may be used as a weapon, and in Java Edition,
they have an attack speed higher than that of an axe, shovel, or trident, but lower than that of a sword or mace.
Pickaxes have an attack speed of 1.2 and take 0.85 seconds to recover.
Attack Damage 2( ) 2( ) 3( ) 4( ) 5( ) 6( )
Damage/Second
2.4 2.4 3.6 4.8 6 7.2
(DPS)
Lifetime
damage 59 ( × 29.5) 32 ( × 16) 196.5 ( × 98.25) 500 ( × 250) 3902.5 ( × 1951.25) 6093 ( × 3046.5)
inflicted[note 1]
1. ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit . The
durability is halved then ceiled because pickaxes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1
durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack
is performed at maximum charge.
In Bedrock Edition, pickaxes have no attack cooldown, and deal the following damage:
Attack Damage 3( ) 3( ) 4( ) 5( ) 6( ) 7( )
Lifetime damage
90 ( × 45) 48 ( × 24) 264 ( × 132) 625 ( × 312.5) 4686 ( × 2343) 7112 ( × 3556)
inflicted[note 1]
Pickaxes can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tier's repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of
the pickaxe's maximum durability, rounded down.
Max
Name Description Method Weight
Level
Enchanting Table
Efficiency Increases the mining speed. V 10
Anvil
Enchanting Table
Fortune[note 2] Increases the amount of drops when mining. III 2
Anvil
Enchanting Table
Silk Touch[note 2] Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined. I 1
Anvil
Enchanting Table
Unbreaking Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. III 5
Anvil
1. ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit . The
durability is halved then ceiled because pickaxes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1
durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack
is performed at maximum charge.
2. ↑ a b Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive.
Wooden pickaxes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per wooden pickaxe.
Iron Pickaxe or
Iron Nugget or
Golden Pickaxe +
Gold Nugget
Any fuel
0.1
Piglins are attracted to golden pickaxes and run toward any golden pickaxes on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8
seconds before putting it in their inventory.
Java Edition
Sounds [hide]
Resource Attenuation
Sound Subtitles Source Description Translation key Volume Pitch
location distance
Bedrock Edition:
Sounds [hide]
Java Edition:
Bedrock Edition:
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Icon Trophy
In-game Actual requirements (if Gamerscore
Achievement type
PS4 Other description different) earned
(PS4)
In-game
Icon Advancement Actual requirements (if different)
description
Construct a
Getting an
better Have a stone pickaxe in the inventory.
Upgrade
Pickaxe
Upgrade
Isn't It Iron
your Have an iron pickaxe in the inventory.
Pick
Pickaxe
Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft
1.7.2 1.7.1
wooden pickaxes.
1.8 14w02a Tool smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond pickaxe
for 12–15 emeralds.
1.1.0 alpha 1.1.0.0 Iron and golden pickaxes are now smeltable.
CU1 1.00 1.00 Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 iron pickaxe for 7–8
emeralds.
TU14 1.04
Patch 1 Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond pickaxe for 10–11
emeralds.
TU31 CU19 1.22 1.22 1.22 Patch 3 Tool smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond pickaxe
for 12–15 emeralds.
TU53 CU43 1.49 1.50 1.49 Patch 23 1.0.3 Iron and golden pickaxes are now smeltable.
February 20, 2024: A Mojang video about bugs shows early textures of netherite items, including the pickaxe:
[1] .