How do you get Stone Axe in Minecraft?

Stone Axe is crafted from Cobblestone and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

What is Stone Axe used for?

Stone Axe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. A stone-tier axe used to chop wood faster and as a decent melee weapon. It is crafted from cobblestone and sticks.

Where do you find Stone Axe in chests?

Stone Axe is chest loot in small underwater ruin chests (about 28%), the bonus chest (about 25%), trial chamber corridor chests (about 20%), and igloo basement chests (about 15%). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

Can Stone Axe be enchanted?

Yes, and there are 9 to choose from on Stone Axe: Efficiency, Unbreaking, and Mending, all on Stone Axe, plus Fortune, Silk Touch, and Sharpness, and on Stone Axe also Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and Curse of Vanishing.

How many Stone Axe can you stack?

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

When was Stone Axe added to Minecraft?

Stone Axe was added in the early Alpha development period.

How much durability does Stone Axe have?

Stone Axe has 131 points of durability, so it lasts about 131 uses. All 5 stone items with a bar sit on the same 131, so Stone Axe wears down no faster than the rest. Two enchantments touch that bar on Stone Axe: Unbreaking stretches what it has, Mending puts it back as you collect experience.

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Stone Axe

A stone-tier axe used to chop wood faster and as a decent melee weapon. It is crafted from cobblestone and sticks.

Stack Size

Durability

131

Stone Axe at a glance

Stone Axe, a tool out of crafting, sits under Tools. It claims a slot each, so nine hotbar slots hold nine and a double chest of 54 slots takes 54. Expect 131 uses out of Stone Axe, with repairs on an anvil to stretch it further; it takes enchantments too.

Its 131-point durability sets how many actions Stone Axe survives before breaking, and Unbreaking multiplies those 131 while Mending repairs Stone Axe from the experience you pick up. Stone gear is an early upgrade over wood, crafted cheaply from cobblestone and lasting noticeably longer in everyday use. 9 enchantments apply to Stone Axe, starting with Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending, and Fortune. Of the 4 kinds of generated chest that can hold Stone Axe, small underwater ruin chests are the best bet at about 28% per chest. It sits between Spyglass and Stone Hoe in Tools, number 28 of 35 there.

Combat and Mining Stats for Stone Axe

Attack damage: 9 per hit
Attack speed: 0.8 swings per second
Damage per second: 7.2
Axe mining speed: 4x
Enchantability: 5
Repairs with: Cobblestone, Blackstone or Cobbled Deepslate, 32 points each

Nine damage a hit is what a Stone Axe does, and that is already the figure a diamond axe reaches. The 0.8 swings a second hold it to 7.2 damage per second, so a Stone Axe out-hits a stone sword and is out-paced by one.

It chops at mining speed 4 and carries 131 uses. A Stone Axe goes back together with cobblestone, blackstone or cobbled deepslate, 32 points a block.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Cobblestone
Stick
Stick
Stone Axe
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Stone Axe has the grid for Stone Axe

How to obtain

Crafting

Enchantments

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

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Notes

131 durability. Deals 9 attack damage. Can be made with blackstone as a cobblestone substitute.

Frequently asked questions about Stone Axe

How do you get Stone Axe in Minecraft?
Stone Axe is crafted from Cobblestone and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
What is Stone Axe used for?
Stone Axe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. A stone-tier axe used to chop wood faster and as a decent melee weapon. It is crafted from cobblestone and sticks.
Where do you find Stone Axe in chests?
Stone Axe is chest loot in small underwater ruin chests (about 28%), the bonus chest (about 25%), trial chamber corridor chests (about 20%), and igloo basement chests (about 15%). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
Can Stone Axe be enchanted?
Yes, and there are 9 to choose from on Stone Axe: Efficiency, Unbreaking, and Mending, all on Stone Axe, plus Fortune, Silk Touch, and Sharpness, and on Stone Axe also Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and Curse of Vanishing.
How many Stone Axe can you stack?
One Stone Axe per slot, since Stone Axe does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Cobblestone and 2 Stick. A shulker box tops out at 27 of them, one per slot.
When was Stone Axe added to Minecraft?
Stone Axe was added in the early Alpha development period.
How much durability does Stone Axe have?
Stone Axe has 131 points of durability, so it lasts about 131 uses. All 5 stone items with a bar sit on the same 131, so Stone Axe wears down no faster than the rest. Two enchantments touch that bar on Stone Axe: Unbreaking stretches what it has, Mending puts it back as you collect experience.

Building with it

Three cobblestone and two sticks give an axe with 131 uses that does nine damage, the same as its iron cousin. Because cobblestone is free in any quantity, the stone axe is the practical weapon for early caving when iron is still going into a pickaxe.

In practice

Cobblestone costs nothing and a stone axe hits for nine, which is more than an iron sword. That combination makes it the sensible early weapon for anyone who would rather spend their iron on a bucket, a shield and a pickaxe than on a blade.

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