Iron Pickaxe

| Type | Tool |
|---|---|
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | No |
| Durability | 500 |
| Attack damage | 4 ( × 2) |
| Attack speed | 1.2 |
| Mining speed | 7 |
| Repaired with | Iron Ingot |
| Resource location | minecraft:iron_pickaxe |
| Defined in | iron_pickaxe.json |
An iron pickaxe is a pickaxe of the iron tier, crafted from three iron ingots and two sticks. It is the first pickaxe that can harvest every ore in the pack, including diamond ore and native gold, but not obsidian.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Pickaxe | 3 × Iron Ingot + 2 × Stick |
Loot
Chest loot
| Source | Variant | Stack size | Chance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abandoned mineshaft | Iron Pickaxe | 1 | 2.38% | |
| Equipment / iron | Iron Pickaxe (enchanted) | 1 | 10.00% | |
| Equipment / iron tools | Iron Pickaxe (enchanted) | 1 | 16.7% | |
| Trial chambers / corridor | Iron Pickaxe (enchanted) | 1 | 29.2% | |
| Trial chambers / intersection | Iron Pickaxe (enchanted) | 1 | 14.0% | |
| Trial chambers / reward | Iron Pickaxe | 1 | 0.727% |
Mob equipment
| Source | Variant | Stack size | Chance | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial chamber | Iron Pickaxe (enchanted) | 1 | 3.81% |
Usage
Mining
The iron pickaxe breaks pickaxe blocks at speed 7, one faster than the copper pickaxe and the vanilla iron pickaxe, and has 500 durability, twice vanilla's 250.
Obsidian, crying obsidian and ender chests break at speed 3 and drop nothing.[1] A steel, diamond, electrum or adamant pickaxe, or any dolabra, is needed to collect them; hepatizon and shakudo pickaxes also collect crying obsidian and ender chests, but not obsidian.
The pack also makes glass, glass panes, glowstone, sea lanterns and mob heads pickaxe blocks.[2]
Combat
It deals 4 ( × 2) damage at an attack speed of 1.2.
Repairing
It can be repaired in an anvil with iron ingots. The pack resets repair costs to zero, so it can be repaired indefinitely; see Repairing.
Smelting and smithing
| Name | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Ingot | Iron Pickaxe or Iron Shovel or Iron Axe or Iron Hoe or Iron Sword or Iron Helmet or Iron Chestplate or Iron Leggings or Iron Boots or Iron Horse Armor or Chainmail Helmet or Chainmail Chestplate or Chainmail Leggings or Chainmail Boots or Raw Iron or Iron Nautilus Armor or Iron Spear | Blast Furnace 5 s, 0.2 XP |
| Steel Pickaxe | Iron Pickaxe + Steel Alloy |
In a blast furnace it melts down into a single iron ingot, and at a smithing table it takes steel alloy to become its steel counterpart.
History
| 0.6-alpha | Added a recipe unlock. |
|---|---|
| 1.12.1-alpha | Can no longer mine obsidian. |
| 1.12.2 | No longer harvests crying obsidian or ender chests.[3] |