In Minecraft axe works as a tool that can help you break the blocks and chop the trees more easily. You can also use it as a weapon, especially in close fights. For making an axe, you need some material. However, in Minecraft, you can make an axe with different materials.
There are wooden, iron, stone, and diamond axes. As their material is different, so are their properties. Some of these materials are easy to find, but others are rare.
Where Minecraft Axe Naturally generates?
Just like everything else, you can also craft all these axes. But there are some other ways through which players can get an axe.
- You can get an axe in case of mob loot.
- You can find an axe in underwater ruins, ruined portals, chests, Bastian remnants, and in igloos.
- You can also trade with a village smith to get an enchanted axe.
- Sometimes when villagers find your act heroic, they throw stone axes to show appreciation.
Other than that, you can always craft the axe.
What Materials Do You Need to Make an Axe?
Axes are made of two parts the handle and the head. To make a handle, you will need 2 wooden sticks. However, for the head, you have to get 3 objects of different materials depending on the type of axe. We will share the recipe for making the axe here. Yet you can make any sword just by following this recipe, except netherite.
To make a netherite axe, you will need different materials and methods.
How to Make an Axe in Minecraft
Making an axe is pretty simple.
Stick
You put two wooden planks on a crafting table to make a stick. In the leftmost column, put one in the corner and the other above it. By doing that, you will get four sticks.
Head
Depending on the axe, you will use three blocks of that material to make the head. For making a wooden axe, use three wooden planks. You can use any wood to make planks. For making a stone axe, 3 cobblestone blocks will be used. This process will be the same for gold, and iron axe, three ingots of that metal, and for diamond, use three diamonds.
For making an axe:
- Open a crafting table with 3 by 3 grid.
- Put the two sticks in the last two boxes of the middle column.
- Place the 3 blocks of your desired material as follow; two blocks side by side in the first row at the left hand and the third block in the first box of the second row.
That is how you will get an axe.
The Most Efficient Axe in Minecraft
In Minecraft, netherite is the most effective axe. It causes the most damage and has excellent durability compared to other axes. The method of crafting netherite axe is also different. You will need to have a diamond axe and nether ingot. Put them on a smithing table, and you have your netherite axe.
Bedrock vs. Java Edition
| Material | Damage in Java | Damage in Bedrock | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden axe | Damage 7 health points | Damage 4 health points | 60 |
| Stone axe | Damage 9 health points | Damage 5 health points | 132 |
| Iron Axe | Damage 9 health points | Damage 6 health points | 251 |
| Gold Axe | Damage 7 health point | Damage 4 health points | 33 |
| Diamond Axe | Damage 9 health point | Damage 7 health points | 156 |
| Netherite Axe | Damage 10 health points | Damage 8 health points | 2032 |
Depending on what edition you are playing, your axe will cause this much damage.
Note- The durability will be one point less for all types of axes in the Java edition.
What is Better in Minecraft, Axe or Sword
In the comparison of functionality, axes are better than swords. Sword can only be used to attack and kill. On the other hand, you can use an axe as a weapon as well as a tool.
Axe can cut trees and break blocks. Also, you can use it in close combat or melee to kill your enemies. A sword causes less damage than an axe, but you can swing them fast, and it has a fast recovery. Meanwhile, axes cause more damage but are pretty slow and take time to recover.
Another advantage of an axe is its specific property of disabling the shield for five seconds. In these five seconds, you can severely damage or kill your opponent.
When used as a tool axe loses 1 durability at every hit. But when used as a weapon, it loses its durability much faster, 2 points at every hit.
Axe Enchantments in Minecraft
Enchantments give your tools or weapons a boost to improve their existing quality. You can add enchantments on tools, weapons, shields, and even books. These are some of the best enchantments for all axes.
- Efficiency – It increases the chopping speed of the axe.
- Unbreaking – It increases the durability of the axe.
- Mending – It uses your experience and keeps mending the axe.
- Sharpness – It increases the damage you inflict on the mobs.
- Smite – Only used on undead mobs and increase the damage.
- Looting – You can get more drops with this enchantment.
How to Enchant an Axe in Minecraft
You need to have a few things to enchant your axe in Minecraft.
- Enchantment Table with XP_ You need 4 obsidians, a diamond, and a book to make an enchantment table. You need to be high on experience level to get the better enchantments.
- Bookshelves _ you need to surround the enchantment table with the bookshelves. Always place the enchantment table one block away from the bookshelves. To get the best enchants, you should have at least thirty bookshelves.
Some enchantments you can only get by using an anvil, like sharpness and smite.
Conclusion
We hope that this guide is helpful to you. As a beginner, you may cut trees with your hand, but you should hurry and try to get a wooden axe. It will make things easier. Later you can keep growing in the game and could have better and stronger axes and even use enchantments.
