How to Craft Wooden Pickaxe in Minecraft
The recipe wants 3 Planks and 2 Sticks, and a Crafting Table to run it on. Laid out, that is three Planks filling the top row and two Sticks stacked in the middle column. Expect 1 Wooden Pickaxe from every craft. It holds up for 59 uses before it breaks.
Wooden Pickaxe Item ID and Give Command
The item ID for Wooden Pickaxe is minecraft:wooden_pickaxe. In commands the namespace may be left off, so wooden_pickaxe works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.
- Give yourself one
/give @p wooden_pickaxe- Give several at once
/give @p wooden_pickaxe 5- Give it to a named player
/give Steve wooden_pickaxe 1
Cheats have to be on for Wooden Pickaxe to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.
Repairing Wooden Pickaxe
An anvil and Planks will restore Wooden Pickaxe long before its 59 uses run out, and nothing enchanted on it is lost in the process.
There is a cheaper way, and a catch. A grindstone merges two worn Wooden Pickaxe items without costing levels, but it removes every enchantment while it does so.
Mending can go on Wooden Pickaxe, and that is the only repair that costs nothing at all: the experience you pick up flows into the item instead of into your own level, so it never sees an anvil again.
Overview
The Wooden Pickaxe is the most basic mining tool. It can mine stone, coal ore and other stone-tier blocks. It has 59 durability. Wooden Pickaxe uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.
The wooden pickaxe 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 pickaxe, 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).
Counting The Stack
Feed 3 planks a craft, so 64 covers 21 of them: 21 wooden pickaxes. Have 42 sticks ready as well. Left behind: 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
- 2
- Attacks per second
- 1.2
- Enchantability
- 15
| Block | Wooden Pickaxe | Bare hand | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone | 1.15s | 7.5s | yes |
| Deepslate | 2.3s | 15s | yes |
| Iron Ore | 7.5s | 15s | no |
| Diamond Ore | 7.5s | 15s | no |
| Deepslate Diamond Ore | 11.25s | 22.5s | no |
| Obsidian | 125s | 250s | no |
| Ancient Debris | 75s | 150s | no |
Deepslate is the toughest thing on this list a wooden pickaxe still drops. Iron Ore breaks under it in 7.5s and leaves nothing behind, so that swing is wasted.
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
Gather 3x Planks (craft from logs) and 2x Stick (craft from planks), then take the lot to 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.
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Wooden Pickaxethis page
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Step-by-Step Instructions
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3x Planks
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2x Stick - 3
Wooden Pickaxe
Tips & Notes
- Line up 3x Planks and 2x Stick before you open the Crafting Table. Planks: craft from logs.
Uses for Wooden Pickaxe
- Mining stone and coal ore
- Early-game mining tool
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Wooden Pickaxe on the Astroworld Items Database.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What version of Minecraft added the Wooden Pickaxe?
Sources
- Grid, ingredients and yield
- 3 Planks and 2 Sticks in, 1 Wooden Pickaxe 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
- Every Java release since 1.13 was checked in order, 50 of them, and 1.21.2 is where this recipe last changed.
- 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 Pickaxe per craft against the stack size.
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