How do you get Wooden Pickaxe in Minecraft?

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

How much durability does Wooden Pickaxe have?

Wooden Pickaxe has 59 points of durability, so it lasts about 59 uses. All 5 wooden items with a bar sit on the same 59, so Wooden Pickaxe wears down no faster than the rest. Two enchantments touch that bar on Wooden Pickaxe: Unbreaking stretches what it has, Mending puts it back as you collect experience.

Can Wooden Pickaxe be enchanted?

Yes, and there are 6 to choose from on Wooden Pickaxe: Efficiency, Unbreaking, and Mending, all on Wooden Pickaxe, plus Fortune, Silk Touch, and Curse of Vanishing.

Can Wooden Pickaxe be used as fuel?

Wooden Pickaxe burns for 10 seconds, so a single one in a furnace smelts 1 item. It is made from Oak Planks and Stick, 10 seconds a piece, so burning it spends Oak Planks and Stick. Before it becomes Wooden Pickaxe, Oak Planks burns 15 seconds by itself.

Where do you find Wooden Pickaxe in chests?

Wooden Pickaxe is chest loot in one place and one only: the bonus chest (about 75%). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

How many Wooden Pickaxe can you stack?

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

What is Wooden Pickaxe used for?

Wooden Pickaxe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic pickaxe. Mines stone and coal ore. Every miner's first tool crafted from planks and sticks.

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Wooden Pickaxe

The most basic pickaxe. Mines stone and coal ore. Every miner's first tool crafted from planks and sticks.

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Durability

Wooden Pickaxe at a glance

Crafting gives you Wooden Pickaxe, a tool filed under Tools. One slot, one Wooden Pickaxe: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. Expect 59 uses out of Wooden Pickaxe, with repairs on an anvil to stretch it further; it takes enchantments too.

59 actions is what Wooden Pickaxe 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. When enchanted, Wooden Pickaxe can carry 6 different enchantments, among them Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending, and Fortune. Generated chests only ever hold Wooden Pickaxe in one place: the bonus chest (about 75%). It sits between Wooden Hoe and Wooden Shovel in Tools, number 34 of 35 there.

Combat and Mining Stats for Wooden Pickaxe

Attack damage: 2 per hit
Attack speed: 1.2 swings per second
Damage per second: 2.4
Pickaxe mining speed: 2x
Enchantability: 15
Repairs with: Any planks, 14 points per plank

Two damage a hit at 1.2 swings a second leaves the Wooden Pickaxe on 2.4 damage per second, which only the golden one matches and nothing else falls below except a hoe. It is a mining tool that happens to be in your hand, not a weapon.

Mining speed 2 is the floor of the game, and 59 uses is enough stone for a starter base. Planks repair a Wooden Pickaxe at 14 points each.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Oak Planks
Oak Planks
Oak Planks
Stick
Stick
Wooden Pickaxe
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Wooden Pickaxe has the grid for Wooden Pickaxe

How to obtain

Crafting

Fuel value

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

Enchantments

Efficiency Unbreaking Mending Fortune Silk Touch Curse of Vanishing

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Notes

Can be used as fuel in a furnace. Cannot mine iron ore or higher tier ores.

Frequently asked questions about Wooden Pickaxe

How do you get Wooden Pickaxe in Minecraft?
Wooden Pickaxe is crafted from Oak Planks and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
How much durability does Wooden Pickaxe have?
Wooden Pickaxe has 59 points of durability, so it lasts about 59 uses. All 5 wooden items with a bar sit on the same 59, so Wooden Pickaxe wears down no faster than the rest. Two enchantments touch that bar on Wooden Pickaxe: Unbreaking stretches what it has, Mending puts it back as you collect experience.
Can Wooden Pickaxe be enchanted?
Yes, and there are 6 to choose from on Wooden Pickaxe: Efficiency, Unbreaking, and Mending, all on Wooden Pickaxe, plus Fortune, Silk Touch, and Curse of Vanishing.
Can Wooden Pickaxe be used as fuel?
Wooden Pickaxe burns for 10 seconds, so a single one in a furnace smelts 1 item. It is made from Oak Planks and Stick, 10 seconds a piece, so burning it spends Oak Planks and Stick. Before it becomes Wooden Pickaxe, Oak Planks burns 15 seconds by itself.
Where do you find Wooden Pickaxe in chests?
Wooden Pickaxe is chest loot in one place and one only: the bonus chest (about 75%). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.
How many Wooden Pickaxe can you stack?
One Wooden Pickaxe per slot, since Wooden Pickaxe does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Oak Planks and 2 Stick. A double chest holds 54 Wooden Pickaxe, one to a slot.
What is Wooden Pickaxe used for?
Wooden Pickaxe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic pickaxe. Mines stone and coal ore. Every miner's first tool crafted from planks and sticks.

Building with it

The wooden pickaxe is where mining starts: three planks and two sticks, 59 uses, and it mines stone, coal and nothing harder. Its only real job is to get you the cobblestone for a stone pickaxe, which is why most players craft one, mine a stack of stone, and never touch wood again.

In practice

The wooden pickaxe should mine three cobblestone and then be replaced, and anything beyond that is wasted durability. It cannot mine iron at all, which is the single fact that catches out most new players standing in front of an iron vein on day one.

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