Iron Pickaxe Recipe
How to Craft Iron Pickaxe
The iron pickaxe is a mid-tier mining tool capable of mining diamonds and other valuable resources.
Crafting
Step-by-step Instructions
- Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
- Place ingredients exactly as shown in the grid (shape matters unless marked shapeless) then move the resulting Iron Pickaxe to your inventory.
- Use, place, or craft further with your new item.
Ingredients Needed
- 3x Iron Ingot
- 2x Stick
Ingredient Tips
Iron Ingot: Smelt iron ore or deepslate iron ore in a furnace or blast furnace.
Stick: Craft from two planks stacked; also drops from leaf decay.
Technical Stats
- Stack Size: 1
- Renewable: Yes
Variants & Interactions
Key Interactions:
- Mines obsidian slowly (upgrade to diamond for speed)
- Durability 250
Uses for Iron Pickaxe
- Mining diamond ore and redstone
- Essential tool for advancing to late-game
- Much more durable than stone pickaxes
Fun Fact
Iron pickaxes can mine obsidian, but it takes about 9.4 seconds to break a single block - diamond pickaxes do it in just 1.5 seconds!
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