Golden Pickaxe

Crafting and Ruined Portal chest loot give you Golden Pickaxe, a tool filed under Tools. One slot, one Golden Pickaxe: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. Expect 32 uses out of Golden Pickaxe, with repairs on an anvil to stretch it further; it takes enchantments too.

Count on 32 uses out of Golden Pickaxe before it goes, longer with Unbreaking on it, and effectively without end once Mending is on it and you keep picking up experience. Gold gear mines and attacks quickly and enchants exceptionally well, but its very low durability means it wears out fast compared with sturdier materials. When enchanted, Golden Pickaxe can carry 6 different enchantments, among them Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending, and Fortune. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Golden Pickaxe, trial chamber barrels are the best bet at about 22% per chest. It sits between Golden Hoe and Golden Shovel in Tools, number 14 of 35 there.

Attack damage

2 per hit

Attack speed

1.2 swings per second

Damage per second

2.4

Pickaxe mining speed

12x

Enchantability

22

Repairs with

Gold Ingot, 8 points per unit

A Golden Pickaxe deals 2 damage at 1.2 swings a second, the same 2.4 damage per second as wood. Nobody mines with gold for the fight.

Mining speed 12 is the fastest in the game, faster than netherite, and 32 uses is the shortest bar in the game. A Golden Pickaxe is a burst tool: with Efficiency it clears a vein in a blink and then wants 8 points a gold ingot back.

• Crafting
• Ruined Portal chest loot

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Has the highest enchantability of all pickaxe tiers despite its low durability.