How do you get Iron Axe in Minecraft?

Iron Axe is crafted from Iron Ingot and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from trading with villagers, and Iron Axe from chest loot, not just the recipe above.

How much durability does Iron Axe have?

The bar on Iron Axe holds 250 points, one per use. Nothing iron goes past 250, a ceiling Iron Axe shares with Iron Pickaxe, Iron Hoe, Iron Shovel, and Iron Sword. Repair comes in two forms on Iron Axe: Unbreaking slows the wear down, Mending turns collected experience back into points.

How many Iron Axe can you stack?

One Iron Axe per slot, since Iron Axe does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Iron Ingot and 2 Stick. A shulker box tops out at 27 of them, one per slot.

Can Iron Axe be enchanted?

Yes. 9 enchantments apply to Iron Axe: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Iron Axe, plus Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods, and on Iron Axe also Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.

When was Iron Axe added to Minecraft?

Iron Axe was added in the early Alpha development period.

Where do you find Iron Axe in chests?

Iron Axe is chest loot in trial chamber corridor chests (about 10%) and trial chamber vaults (roughly 1 in 11). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

What is Iron Axe used for?

Iron Axe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. A mid-tier axe used to chop wood and strip logs. It deals 9 attack damage, making it a strong melee weapon as well.

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Iron Axe

A mid-tier axe used to chop wood and strip logs. It deals 9 attack damage, making it a strong melee weapon as well.

Stack Size

Durability

250

Iron Axe at a glance

Iron Axe, a tool out of crafting, trading with villagers, and chest loot, sits under Tools. One slot, one Iron Axe: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. Wear counts down from 250 on Iron Axe, and an anvil resets part of that; it takes enchantments too.

Its 250-point durability sets how many actions Iron Axe survives before breaking, and Unbreaking multiplies those 250 while Mending repairs Iron Axe from the experience you pick up. Iron is the dependable mid-game material, striking a practical balance between durability and performance that makes it the workhorse choice for most players. When enchanted, Iron Axe can carry 9 different enchantments, among them Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, and Sharpness. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Iron Axe, trial chamber corridor chests are the best bet at about 10% per chest. It sits between Golden Shovel and Iron Hoe in Tools, number 16 of 35 there.

Combat and Mining Stats for Iron Axe

Attack damage: 9 per hit
Attack speed: 0.9 swings per second
Damage per second: 8.1
Axe mining speed: 6x
Enchantability: 14
Repairs with: Iron Ingot, 62 points per unit

The Iron Axe keeps the 9 damage of stone but swings a shade faster at 0.9 a second, which lifts it to 8.1 damage per second. That extra tenth is the only thing separating an Iron Axe from a stone one in a fight.

Iron ingots return 62 points each of its 250. Mining speed 6 on wood means the Iron Axe clears a spruce trunk while a stone one is still on the third log.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Stick
Stick
Iron Axe
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Iron Axe has the grid for Iron Axe

How to obtain

Crafting
Trading
Chest loot

Enchantments

Efficiency Fortune Silk Touch Sharpness Smite Bane of Arthropods Unbreaking Mending Curse of Vanishing

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Frequently asked questions about Iron Axe

How do you get Iron Axe in Minecraft?
Iron Axe is crafted from Iron Ingot and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from trading with villagers, and Iron Axe from chest loot, not just the recipe above.
How much durability does Iron Axe have?
The bar on Iron Axe holds 250 points, one per use. Nothing iron goes past 250, a ceiling Iron Axe shares with Iron Pickaxe, Iron Hoe, Iron Shovel, and Iron Sword. Repair comes in two forms on Iron Axe: Unbreaking slows the wear down, Mending turns collected experience back into points.
How many Iron Axe can you stack?
One Iron Axe per slot, since Iron Axe does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Iron Ingot and 2 Stick. A shulker box tops out at 27 of them, one per slot.
Can Iron Axe be enchanted?
Yes. 9 enchantments apply to Iron Axe: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Iron Axe, plus Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods, and on Iron Axe also Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.
When was Iron Axe added to Minecraft?
Iron Axe was added in the early Alpha development period.
Where do you find Iron Axe in chests?
Iron Axe is chest loot in trial chamber corridor chests (about 10%) and trial chamber vaults (roughly 1 in 11). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
What is Iron Axe used for?
Iron Axe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. A mid-tier axe used to chop wood and strip logs. It deals 9 attack damage, making it a strong melee weapon as well.

Building with it

Three iron ingots and two sticks give an axe with 250 uses that does nine damage, more than the iron sword. For anyone clearing a forest for a build, the iron axe is the sensible middle: cheap enough to replace, fast enough to fell a whole tree in seconds.

In practice

An iron axe does nine damage, the same as a diamond one, at a fraction of the cost. For a player still short on diamonds that makes it the strongest weapon available, and the slower swing matters less against zombies than it does against another player.

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