
Wooden Axe Recipe
How to Craft Wooden Axe
The wooden axe is the most basic chopping tool, used for cutting down trees and wooden blocks.





Crafting

Ingredients Needed:
- 3x Oak Planks

- 2x Stick

Step-by-step Instructions
- Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
- Arrange the materials as shown in the grid above, then place the output Wooden Axe into your inventory.
- That’s it! You can now use or place your new item.
Ingredient Tips

Oak Planks: Crafted from any logs in a 2×2; great starter material found in all forest biomes.

Stick: Craft from two planks stacked; also drops from leaf decay.
Uses for Wooden Axe
- Chopping trees and wooden blocks quickly
- Early game wood collection
- Can be used as a weapon in a pinch
- Can be used as fuel in a furnace
Fun Fact
In early versions of Minecraft, axes did more damage to mobs than swords but had a slower attack speed. This was later balanced to make swords better for combat.
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