Diamond Axe

Diamond Axe

Rarity tier	Common
Durability	1561 ‌ / 1562 ‌
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A diamond axe is the fourth tier of axe the player can obtain. It can be used to break wood-based blocks faster, but also can act as a melee weapon, with the ability to disable shields.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Diamond + Stick

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Intersection barrel	1	5.9% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.05939097123670134, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection barrel" }
Damaged Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Intersection chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Damaged Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11183763693762816, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Intersection barrel	1	5.9% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.05939097123670134, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection barrel" }
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Vault and reward chest	1	3.5% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.034782608695652195, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Ominous Vault	1	8.3% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08275862068965523, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous Vault" }
Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Intersection barrel	1	5.9% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.05939097123670134, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection barrel" }
Damaged Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Intersection chest	1	11.2% { "item": "Damaged Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11183763693762816, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Intersection barrel	1	5.9% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.05939097123670134, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection barrel" }
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Vault and reward chest	1	0.9% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.008695652173912993, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }
Enchanted Diamond Axe	Trial Chambers	Ominous Vault	1	8.3% { "item": "Enchanted Diamond Axe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08275862068965523, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Ominous Vault" }

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Expert Toolsmith	67%	50%	17–31 × Emerald	Enchanted Diamond Axe
Expert Weaponsmith	100%	100%	17–31 × Emerald	Enchanted Diamond Axe

Usage

Breaking

Diamond axes can break wood-related blocks faster than other tools. Breaking a block costs 1 durability.

Stripping

Using a diamond axe on a log, wood block, or block of bamboo turns it into a stripped log, stripped wood, or block of stripped bamboo, respectively. This costs 1 point of durability of the axe.

Copper blocks

Using a diamond axe on a waxed or oxidized copper block removes the wax if it has any, or otherwise remove a level of oxidization. This costs 1 point of durability.

Weapon

When used as a weapon, a diamond axe loses 2 durability points.

Java Edition

Attacking a shield user with an axe disables the use of the shield for 5 seconds. Vindicators, piglin brutes, or other mobs with commands always disable the player's shield. Damage done when using an axe as a weapon is more than that of a sword of the same tier, though they take longer than a sword to recover, resulting in lower DPS.

Attack Damage	Attack Speed	Recovery time	DPS	Lifetime damage inflicted
9HP	1.0	1 second (20 game ticks)	9.0	7029HP × 3514.5

Bedrock Edition

Diamond axes attack instantly with no cooldown and deal 7HP damage, but they lower the durability of armor and shields faster than a sword would do.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Damaged Diamond Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 3 points of durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	[hide]Description
2× Damaged Diamond Axe		The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 3 points of durability.

Anvil repair

Ingredients	[hide]Anvil recipe
Damaged Diamond Axe + Diamond	Diamond Axe

A diamond axe can be repaired in an anvil by adding diamonds, with each ingot restoring 25% of the axe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two diamond axes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the axe's enchantments.

Enchantments

A diamond axe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Fortune	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Silk Touch	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table Anvil	1
Sharpness	Increases the damage dealt.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Smite	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Cleaving​	Increases the damage and shield cooldown time dealt.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil
Looting​	Increases the amount of drops when killing an entity with the axe.	III	Anvil	2
Knockback​	Increases the knockback dealt.	II	Anvil	5
Fire Aspect​	Ignites any targets hit by the axe and lights unlit candles, campfires, and Block of TNT when used.	II	Anvil	2
Sweeping Edge​	Increases the sweeping damage dealt.	III	Anvil	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the axe when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The axe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Upgrading

Like other diamond tools, a diamond axe can be upgraded to a netherite axe, increasing its durability and slightly increasing its mining speed and attack damage, as well as granting resistance to fire and lava when dropped as an item.

Ingredients	[hide]Smithing recipe
Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Axe + Netherite Ingot

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Axe strips	Blocks	When an axe strips a log or wood block	item.axe.strip	subtitles.item.axe.strip​	0.9	1.0/0.85	16
	​Wax off	Blocks	When an axe unwaxes a block of copper	item.axe.wax_off	subtitles.item.axe.wax_off​	1.0	0.9/1.1/1.0	16
	​Axe scrapes	Blocks	When an axe deoxidizes a block of copper	item.axe.scrape	subtitles.item.axe.scrape​	1.0	1.0/0.9/1.1	16
	​Item breaks	Players	When an axe's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When an axe strips a log or wood block	use.wood	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	When an axe strips a stem or hyphae block	use.stem	1.0	0.8
	Players	When an axe strips a block of bamboo	step.bamboo_wood	1.0	0.8
	Players	When an axe strips a cherry log or cherry wood block	step.cherry_wood	1.0	0.8
	Friendly Creatures	When an axe unwaxes a block of copper ​	copper.wax.off	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When an axe deoxidizes a block of copper	scrape	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Players	When an axe's durability is exhausted	random.break	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	[hide]Translation key
Diamond Axe	diamond_axe	Item	item.minecraft.diamond_axe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Diamond Axe	diamond_axe	319	Item	item.diamond_axe.name

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool.	Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.	15	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Wax Off	Scrape Wax off of a Copper block!	Use an axe to revert any of these 9 waxed variants of copper blocks: The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages.

History

[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100128-2200				Added diamond axes.
							They cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house.
			20100129-1447				Diamond axes can now be crafted.
			20100131				Diamond axes now have durability which is 257 points.
[hide]Java Edition
1.3.1			12w21a				Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond axe for 9–11 emeralds.
1.6.1			13w21a				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), diamond axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
1.8			14w02a				Weapon smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond axe for 9–12 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond axes are no longer sold.
1.9			15w34a				Diamond axes now use the attack speed combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for an axe is 1.2 seconds.
			15w34b				Diamond axes now have an attack speed of 0.8, taking about 1.25 seconds to fill the attack meter.
			15w34c				Diamond axes do 4HP more damage than previously.
							Diamond axes now have an attack speed of 0.85.
							Diamond axes now have a chance to temporarily disable shield use.
			15w35a				The damage of diamond axes has been reduced by 1HP.
							The speed of diamond axes has been increased to 0.9.
			15w37a				Diamond axes now do 9HP damage instead of 10HP.
							Diamond axes now have an attack speed of 1.
1.11			16w35a				A diamond axe now has a 100% chance of disabling shield use, and the chance is no longer increased by efficiency level and whether or not the user is sprinting.
1.13			18w07a				Using a diamond axe on a block of wood or log now turns it into a stripped block of wood or log.
			pre2				Using a diamond axe on a bark now turns it into a stripped bark.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of diamond axes has been changed.
			19w11a				Toolsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond axes.
1.16			20w06a				Diamond axes can now be used to craft netherite axes.
			20w09a				The texture of diamond axes has been changed.
			20w10a				Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
1.17			21w11a				Diamond axes can now be used to scrape wax and oxidation off copper blocks.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Upgrading diamond axes to netherite axes now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Randomly enchanted diamond axes now generate in trial chambers.
1.20.5			24w03a				Diamond axes can now receive sharpness, smite, and bane of arthropods through an enchanting table, rather than only through an anvil.
[hide]Upcoming Java Edition
Combat Tests			1.14.3 - Combat Test				The attack speed for diamond axes has been increased to 2.
							Diamond axes now deal 1HP more damage than diamond swords.
			Combat Test 3				The Chopping enchantment has been added for diamond axes, which adds 1 damage and 0.5 seconds (10 game ticks) of shield stunning per level and is mutually exclusive with Sharpness.
							Diamond axes now always disable shields for 1.6 seconds (32 game ticks), instead of having a 25% to disable them for 5 seconds (100 game ticks).
							Diamond axes now take 1 damage when attacking instead of 2.
							The Sweeping Edge enchantment can now be applied to diamond axes.
			Combat Test 4				Knockback, Looting, and Fire Aspect enchantments can now be applied to diamond axes.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							Added diamond axes. They actually function as tools despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.2							Diamond axes can now be crafted with diamonds and sticks.
v0.11.0			build 11				Diamond axes are now available in the creative inventory.
			build 12				Diamond axes have been removed from creative.
			build 13				Diamond axes have been re-added to creative mode.
v0.12.1			build 1				Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), diamond axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Weaponsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond axes for 9-12 emeralds as part of their third tier trades.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.13			beta 1.2.13.8				Using a diamond axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of diamond axes has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Weaponsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond axes for 12 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades.
							Diamond axes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Diamond axes can now be used to craft netherite axes.
							The texture of diamond axes has been changed.
			beta 1.16.0.57				Netherite axes are now obtained by combining one diamond axe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
1.16.220			beta 1.16.220.52				Diamond axes can now be used to scrape wax off copper blocks.
1.18.30			Preview 1.18.30.27				Diamond axes can now temporarily disable shield use. This is not mentioned in the official changelog.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Randomly enchanted diamond axes now generate in trial chambers.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added diamond axes.
TU14		1.04					Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond axe for 9–11 emeralds.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HP), diamond axes now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HP more damage than before.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Weapon smith villagers now sell 1 enchanted diamond axe for 9–12 emeralds. Unenchanted diamond axes are no longer sold.
TU36	CU25	1.28	1.28	1.28	Patch 7		The attack damage of diamond axes is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the item has less than 3 enchantments.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Using a diamond axe on a log now turns it into a stripped log.
			1.90				The texture of diamond axes have been changed.
			1.91				Weaponsmith villagers now sell enchanted diamond axes for 12 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added diamond axes.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 286.

Issues

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