This article is about the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors.
Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster, to gather materials not obtainable by hand, or to perform completely new actions. With the exception of the fishing rod, clock and compass, tools do not stack in the inventory.
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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| Flint and Steel | Iron Ingot + Flint |
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| Flint and Steel | Damaged Flint and Steel | The durability of the two tools is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Axe | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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| Stone Axe | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
| Axe | Damaged Matching Axe | The durability of the two axes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Hoe | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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| Stone Hoe | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
| Hoe | Damaged Matching Hoe | The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Shovels | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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| Stone Shovel | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use any variant of cobblestone | |
| Shovel | Damaged Matching Shovel | The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Pickaxe | Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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| Stone Pickaxe | Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
| Pickaxe | Matching Damaged Pickaxes | The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 5% of the tool type's total durability. | |
| Compass | Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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| Fishing Rod | Stick + String |
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| Fishing Rod | Damaged Fishing Rod | The durability of the two fishing rods is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Clock | Gold Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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| Shears | Iron Ingot | ||
| Shears | Damaged Shears | The durability of the two shears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Lead | String + Slimeball |
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| Bundle | String + Rabbit Hide |
[only experimental "bundle"] | |
| Brush | Feather + Copper Ingot + Stick |
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| Brush | Damaged Brush | The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. | |
| Spyglass | Amethyst Shard + Copper Ingot |
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| Recovery Compass | Echo Shard + Compass |
Diamond tools vs. Gold tools
Even though gold tools mine faster than diamond tools, Gold tools have a mere 33 uses, Compared to the 1000+ uses of diamond tools, making it far more useful than a gold tool.
Trivia
- If you switch from a more valuable to a less valuable tool, without releasing the mouse button, just before a block breaks, the time required will be similar to using the former tool, while the mined block will be counted against the latter's durability. This is true for shovels, axes and pickaxes. However, in the case of pickaxes, this only works if the latter can mine this type of block, e.g. for iron and stone pickaxe while mining iron ore it would work, but for diamond and iron pickaxe while mining obsidian it wouldn't. Profitable uses for this (in terms of time saved) are rare.