How do you get Wooden Axe in Minecraft?

Wooden Axe is crafted from Planks and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

Can Wooden Axe be used as fuel?

Wooden Axe in the bottom slot gives you 10 seconds of heat, which is 1 item apiece. Set against its recipe, Wooden Axe carries the heat that Planks and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Wooden Axe carries that heat forward.

What is Wooden Axe used for?

Wooden Axe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic axe, used to chop wood and strip logs faster than by hand. It has 59 durability.

Where do you find Wooden Axe in chests?

Wooden Axe is chest loot in the bonus chest (about 75%) and trial chamber entrance chests (about 55%). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

How many Wooden Axe can you stack?

One Wooden Axe per slot, since Wooden Axe does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Planks and 2 Stick. A double chest holds 54 Wooden Axe, one to a slot.

Can Wooden Axe be enchanted?

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

How much durability does Wooden Axe have?

The bar on Wooden Axe holds 59 points, one per use. The other 4 wooden items hold 59 too, which makes Wooden Axe an even trade with any of them. Repair comes in two forms on Wooden Axe: Unbreaking slows the wear down, Mending turns collected experience back into points.

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Wooden Axe

The most basic axe, used to chop wood and strip logs faster than by hand. It has 59 durability.

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Durability

Wooden Axe at a glance

Tools holds Wooden Axe: a tool out of crafting. One slot, one Wooden Axe: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. It lasts 59 uses before it breaks, and an anvil brings it back; it takes enchantments too.

59 actions is what Wooden Axe is worth from new, and the two enchantments that change that number are Unbreaking, which stretches the 59, and Mending, which pays them back as you collect experience. Wooden gear is the entry-level tier, crafted from planks and used to bootstrap toward stronger materials. The enchantment pool for Wooden Axe runs to 9, including Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, and Sharpness. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Wooden Axe, the bonus chest is the best bet at about 75% per chest. It sits between Stone Shovel and Wooden Hoe in Tools, number 32 of 35 there.

Combat and Mining Stats for Wooden Axe

Attack damage: 7 per hit
Attack speed: 0.8 swings per second
Damage per second: 5.6
Axe mining speed: 2x
Enchantability: 15
Repairs with: Any planks, 14 points per plank

A Wooden Axe hits for 7, three more than the sword of the same wood, but it swings 0.8 times a second and so lands 5.6 damage per second. Trade the Wooden Axe in when you want damage now rather than damage often.

On wood it mines at speed 2 and it strips logs, so most of the 59 uses in a Wooden Axe go into trees rather than mobs. Planks repair it at 14 points a plank.

Crafting recipe

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

How to obtain

Crafting

Fuel value

Wooden Axe burns for 10 seconds (200 ticks), which is 1 item per Wooden Axe

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.

Notes

Any wood type of planks works. As a wooden tool it can be used as furnace fuel, smelting 1 item.

Frequently asked questions about Wooden Axe

How do you get Wooden Axe in Minecraft?
Wooden Axe is crafted from Planks and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
Can Wooden Axe be used as fuel?
Wooden Axe in the bottom slot gives you 10 seconds of heat, which is 1 item apiece. Set against its recipe, Wooden Axe carries the heat that Planks and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Wooden Axe carries that heat forward.
What is Wooden Axe used for?
Wooden Axe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic axe, used to chop wood and strip logs faster than by hand. It has 59 durability.
Where do you find Wooden Axe in chests?
Wooden Axe is chest loot in the bonus chest (about 75%) and trial chamber entrance chests (about 55%). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
How many Wooden Axe can you stack?
One Wooden Axe per slot, since Wooden Axe does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Planks and 2 Stick. A double chest holds 54 Wooden Axe, one to a slot.
Can Wooden Axe be enchanted?
Yes. 9 enchantments apply to Wooden Axe: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Wooden Axe, plus Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods, and on Wooden Axe also Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.
How much durability does Wooden Axe have?
The bar on Wooden Axe holds 59 points, one per use. The other 4 wooden items hold 59 too, which makes Wooden Axe an even trade with any of them. Repair comes in two forms on Wooden Axe: Unbreaking slows the wear down, Mending turns collected experience back into points.

Building with it

Three planks and two sticks give an axe with 59 uses that chops wood twice as fast as your fist. It is the second thing most players craft, right after the crafting table, and it pays for itself within a single tree.

In practice

The wooden axe is the second thing most players craft, and it pays for itself inside a single tree. Chopping by hand is roughly three times slower, so the two planks and the stick are recovered before the first log is even fully broken.

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