Pickaxe

The Pickaxe, Minecraft's iconic symbol, is used in the game to rapidly mine stone and ores. A pickaxe can be made from Sticks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds with two sticks.

A certain material pickaxe is needed to mine a certain ore (Ex: Iron for Diamond).

Trivia

 * Only the diamond pickaxe can mine obsidian.


 * Prior to 0.6.1, if a pickaxe is used on Bedrock, it would break within 20 minutes, due to bedrock being unbreakable.
 * Wooden or Stone Pickaxes are useful if you are going on a non-mining adventure as they can clear Stone in case of emergency.
 * Golden pickaxes are the fastest but have only 33 uses, making it the weakest Pickaxe.