Minecraft crafting guide
How to craft Wooden Axe in Minecraft
To craft a wooden axe in Minecraft, place 3× #Wooden Tool Materials, 2× Stick in the exact pattern on a crafting table to craft 1 wooden axe
Wooden Axe crafting recipe
Produces 1× Wooden Axe.






- This is a shaped recipe, meaning the items must be placed in this specific arrangement on the grid.
- Wooden Axe requires a crafting table to craft.
About Wooden Axe
The wooden axe is the first chopping tool you can make. It breaks logs, planks, fences, and other wood blocks much faster than punching them, and right-clicking a log strips the bark to create a stripped log. It can also scrape wax or oxidation off copper blocks, just like any other axe.
A wooden axe can be used as a melee weapon in a pinch, though it hits slower than a sword. Its durability is low, so it will not last long once you start gathering a lot of wood or fighting with it.
How to get Wooden Axe
You can only get a wooden axe by crafting it. The recipe needs 3 wooden planks and 2 sticks, which makes it one of the first tools you can build after punching a tree. It is not found in regular dungeon or village chests, so crafting is your only route.
Materials needed
Ingredient amounts for one craft, producing 1× Wooden Axe.
| Material | Per craft | Accepted items |
|---|---|---|
Any Wooden Tool Materials | 3 | 12 valid optionsAcacia PlanksBamboo PlanksBirch PlanksCherry PlanksCrimson PlanksDark Oak PlanksJungle PlanksMangrove PlanksOak PlanksPale Oak PlanksSpruce PlanksWarped Planks |
| 2 | Exact item |
Quantity table
Crafts are rounded up when a recipe produces more than one item.
| Wanted | Crafts | Produced | Any Wooden Tool Materials | Stick |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 | 32 |
| 32 | 32 | 32 | 96 | 64 |
| 64 | 64 | 64 | 192 | 128 |
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