How to Craft Wooden Axe in Minecraft
Feed a Crafting Table 3 Planks and 2 Sticks and a Wooden Axe comes back. Read it row by row: two Planks in the left and middle columns, then Planks in the left column and a Stick in the middle column, then a Stick in the middle column. Each attempt hands back 1 Wooden Axe. Durability is 59, and that is how many uses one gets you.
Wooden Axe Item ID and Give Command
The item ID for Wooden Axe is minecraft:wooden_axe. In commands the namespace may be left off, so wooden_axe works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.
- Give yourself one
/give @p wooden_axe- Give several at once
/give @p wooden_axe 5- Give it to a named player
/give Steve wooden_axe 1
Cheats have to be on for Wooden Axe to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.
Repairing Wooden Axe
Those 59 uses are not the end of the road. Feed Wooden Axe back onto an anvil with Planks and it comes back up with its enchantments intact.
Two worn ones can also be merged on a grindstone. That is the cheaper route and it asks no levels, but it strips every enchantment off, so it suits a plain Wooden Axe rather than one you have invested in.
Wooden Axe takes Mending, and once it does you can stop thinking about repairs: every orb you pick up goes into the item.
Overview
The Wooden Axe is the most basic axe. It chops wood faster than by hand and has 59 durability. Wooden Axe uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.
The wooden axe was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.21.2. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the wooden axe, so check the grid above rather than the video.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with planks (craft from logs) and stick (craft from planks).
What A Stack Yields
21 crafts drain a stack: 64 planks become 21 wooden axes. Bring 42 sticks along for the ride. Left over: just 1 planks.
Which Material Lasts Longest
Durability of every material this item comes in, weakest first. Gold 32 Wood 59 Stone 131 Iron 250 Diamond 1561 Netherite 2031
How Long It Takes
- Blocks before it breaks
- 59 blocks
- Attack damage
- 7
- Attacks per second
- 0.8
- Enchantability
- 15
| Block | Wooden Axe | Bare hand | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Log | 1.5s | 3s | yes |
| Oak Planks | 1.5s | 3s | yes |
| Crafting Table | 1.9s | 3.75s | yes |
| Chest | 1.9s | 3.75s | yes |
| Bookshelf | 1.15s | 2.3s | yes |
| Pumpkin | 0.75s | 1.5s | yes |
Everything on this list drops for a wooden axe, so the material buys speed and nothing else. Pumpkin is the quickest of them at 0.75s, which is 2 times faster than doing it by hand.
Calculated from Minecraft Java 26.2’s own block hardness and tool speed values, without enchantments, Haste or Mining Fatigue. Bedrock Edition publishes no equivalent figures, so these are Java only.
Materials Needed
To make Wooden Axe you will gather 3x Planks (craft from logs) and 2x Stick (craft from planks), and craft them at a Crafting Table.
The Full Chain
2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 5 Planks.
- 1
- 2
Wooden Axethis page
Gather this first
Step-by-Step Instructions
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3x Planks
- 2
2x Stick - 3
Wooden Axe
Tips & Notes
- Shopping list: 3x Planks and 2x Stick. Plan the Planks first: craft from logs.
Uses for Wooden Axe
- Chopping wood
- Stripping logs
- Basic weapon alternative
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Wooden Axe on the Astroworld Items Database.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to craft a Wooden Axe in Minecraft?
Where do you find the materials for a Wooden Axe?
How many Wooden Axes do you get from one craft?
What is the item ID for Wooden Axe in Minecraft?
What is the give command for Wooden Axe?
Is the Wooden Axe recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
What version of Minecraft added the Wooden Axe?
Sources
- Grid, ingredients and yield
- 3 Planks and 2 Sticks in, 1 Wooden Axe out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
- That Bedrock agrees
- Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
- How far back it goes
- Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
- When the recipe last changed
- Compared release by release across 50 Java releases since 1.13; the last change to what it takes was in 1.21.2.
- Stack size, durability, enchantments, burn time
- The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
- Break times, damage and wear
- Hardness and tool speed, Java 26.2. Calculated, not timed.
- What it can mine
- Which blocks want this tool, and the tier they refuse below. Java 26.2.
- The recipe book unlock
- What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
- The stack sum
- Counted, not played: 1 Wooden Axe per craft against the stack size.
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