Understand Wooden Pickaxe
Useful when…
- Mining blocks tagged as mineable with a pickaxe when wooden tools are correct for drops.
- Crafting a pickaxe from planks and a stick.
- Repairing it with wooden planks or another wooden pickaxe.
What can it mine, and how does it handle?
Its tool rules give it 2.0 speed on blocks tagged as mineable with a pickaxe and mark those blocks as correct for drops. Blocks tagged as incorrect for wooden tools do not give correct drops. Mining a block normally uses one durability point; blocks with zero hardness do not consume durability. The pickaxe has 59 durability. In Java, the reading gives a -2.8 attack-speed modifier, about 0.85 seconds to recover, and 2 HP damage per attack. [mc-item-wooden_pickaxe:components, mc-item-wooden_pickaxe:reading]
How can you repair and enchant it?
An anvil can repair it with wooden planks; each plank restores 25% of maximum durability, rounded down. Two damaged pickaxes can be combined in a crafting grid or grindstone, adding their durability plus 5% of durability. Anvil repairs preserve enchantments. The listed enchantments include Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending, Fortune, Silk Touch, and Curse of Vanishing. Fortune and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive. [mc-item-wooden_pickaxe:reading]
How do you obtain and use it beyond mining?
Craft it from any planks and a stick; the reading also lists it as bonus-chest loot. Its enchantability value is 15. It can be used as furnace fuel to smelt one item. Its 59 durability and plank-and-stick crafting recipe provide the basis for weighing repair against crafting a replacement. [mc-item-wooden_pickaxe:components, mc-item-wooden_pickaxe:reading]
Limitations and tradeoffs
- It can be crafted from planks and a stick, but its 59 durability limits its use before repair or replacement.
- Anvil repairs preserve enchantments; using it as furnace fuel smelts one item and consumes the pickaxe.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Assuming every block tagged as mineable with a pickaxe gives correct drops from a wooden pickaxe.
- Putting both Fortune and Silk Touch on the same pickaxe.
- Reading the repair-combination bonus as 5% of maximum durability; the supplied reading does not specify that basis.