Most new players who are interested in Minecraft do not know where to start the game and what to craft first. Of course, you need a workbench, which you cannot do without. What's next? And now it's time to create your own wooden pickaxe. It is this item that is one of the main ones that will help you survive in virtual world Minecraft.
How to make a pickaxe in Minecraft?
In order to get such an item, we need to stock up on sticks and boards. We simply extract wood of any breed, we get the ingredients we need. Now you can start crafting a pickaxe - put everything in the correct order on the workbench and get a tool.
That's all. You have received one of the most important tools in the game. Gradually, you have the opportunity to improve your device, replacing the boards with cobblestones, gold bars or diamonds. However, the very principle of obtaining a pickaxe will not change.
The main types of picks
First of all, it should be noted that in Minecraft you can make a large number of varieties of pickaxes. Of course, at the beginning of the game it is better to start with the creation of a wooden model, but as your skills develop, you can start developing more durable types of tools.
This is very important, because there are some materials in the game that can only be obtained by using certain tools. For example, stone blocks can be destroyed by hand, but you won’t be able to get cobblestone.
Once you craft a stone pickaxe, you can use it to mine coal. It is noteworthy that you can get coal not only deep in the mines, but also by breaking stone blocks. Now that you have coal, create a torch and go explore the mines. But remember, there are a lot of monsters there, so don't forget to take your weapons with you.
After exploring the mines, you will be able to mine ore, which is an indispensable ingredient when crafting an iron pickaxe.
In turn, the iron pickaxe is the tool that allows you to extract gold or diamond ore - the ingredients of the corresponding devices.
Now let's take a look at the features of each tool:
- The wooden pickaxe is the weakest. Usually it is done only to get a cobblestone, after which it is not used at all;
- The stone model has a durability level of 132 and is able to destroy blocks. In addition, it serves for the extraction of ore;
- The most commonly used iron pickaxe, which is quite durable and cheaper than diamond pickaxe. Its strength index is 251;
- The most durable type is the diamond pickaxe. Such a tool can easily destroy even obsidian. This item has a durability rating of 1562.
Thus, we have learned how to create different types of picks. This item is one of the most important survival items in the game. In addition, without it, it is impossible to extract a single mineral.
In Minecraft, as in life, with your bare hands you can only dig up a block of earth or sand, rake up gravel, and if something is harder, a stone, for example, or granite, then you will need a tool - a pickaxe. The rock lends itself well to a pick, but each pick has its own characteristics. The first pickaxe, which is indispensable at the beginning of the game, is a wooden one. Having obtained cobblestones with it, it will be possible to make a stone pickaxe. Mining with a stone pick iron ore, smelting iron and now you can craft an iron pickaxe to mine gold, diamonds, red dust and blue dye. Gold will make a golden pickaxe, diamonds will make a diamond pickaxe.
Each pickaxe has its own durability. The stronger, the more blocks it can break.
To make any pickaxe, you definitely need a workbench. General Recipe: For one pickaxe, you will need 2 wooden sticks and 3 pieces of blade material.
wooden pick
The simplest pickaxe in Minecraft, but it breaks pretty quickly. Suitable for the first visit to the mine, where you will go to get some cobblestone from the stone.
We break the wood with our hands - we extract 2 blocks of wood.
From 2 blocks of wood on a workbench, we craft 8 blocks of planks.
From 2 blocks of boards we make 4 sticks. The remaining boards are for the pickaxe blade.
To craft 1 wooden pickaxe, you need 3 blocks of planks and 2 sticks. 
stone pick
The stone pickaxe is quite durable and easy to manufacture. Such a pickaxe can be used to mine coal, which is useful for making torches, we will use them to illuminate, in particular, the mine, in order to get deeper. Takes iron ore too. And, of course, stone breaks faster than wood.
To craft a stone pickaxe, you need 2 sticks and 3 blocks of cobblestone.
We make sticks from boards. Cobblestone is a gray stone that is mined in the mountains or underground. 
So we got to the most optimal pick in terms of strength and ease of manufacture - iron. In addition to various stones, coal and iron, it can be used to mine gold ore, redstone, lapis lazuli and diamonds.
How to make an iron pick
To craft an iron pickaxe, you need 2 sticks and 3 pieces of iron. We make sticks from boards. Pieces of iron are obtained by melting the ore in the furnace. 
The most fragile pickaxe, but it is easy to enchant to mine rare blocks without damaging them, cracked stone, for example, or a block of diamond ore without dropping diamonds.
How to do
To craft a golden pickaxe, you need 2 sticks and 3 gold ingots. To make ingots, smelt a block of gold ore in a furnace. 
The most durable, but the most expensive pickaxe. The purpose of its production is to mine obsidian. By the way, this pickaxe will get any block quickly and accurately.
How to craft
It is made from 3 diamonds and 2 sticks. 
Pickaxes do not last forever, each has its own margin of safety, so use them optimally on those materials that this or that pickaxe takes. Using a wooden or stone pickaxe for gold and diamonds will only break the block and will not extract the precious resource. And if you hammer them with a diamond pickaxe, it will break faster and there will be nothing to extract obsidian with.
Pickaxe mods
And it's not all about pickaxes! There are mods for Minecraft that allow you to create pickaxes from anything. This, however, is not so much practical as it is fun :)
Upgrade pickaxe mod will add 5 newest improved pickaxes. However, this is by no means all. If you have IndustrialCraft 2 and RedPower 2 mods installed, then there will be as many as 9 newest pickaxes. It will be possible to craft them from rubies, bronze, sapphires and other materials.
More Pickaxes Mod adds 38 new pickaxes to Minecraft. Each pickaxe has its own unique properties.
Mod "Super Pickaxe" for Minecraft PE will make any of them much stronger and more powerful, as well as more versatile. Now it can destroy ordinary blocks many times faster than it was before. You will also have a new ability to chop trees and clear grass with this pickaxe, you can destroy absolutely any blocks and even kill enemy mobs.
How to enchant a pickaxe
Can be enchanted with a pickaxe efficiency, then the resource extraction rate will increase.
Can be on Silk touch, then when the block is destroyed, it falls out of it, even if something else should fall out of it (for example, it will fall out of the stone, not the cobblestone).
If you enchant on strength, then with some chance the resource of the tool will not decrease.
Luck Gives a chance to drop more resources.
And for those who still can’t or don’t want to read, the video:
The pickaxe is the main tool in Minecraft, the very name of the game translates as “Mining craft”, what kind of miner is without a pickaxe? The best pickaxe is a diamond pickaxe, the worst one is made of wood - you will only need it at the very beginning of the game to get a Stone (cobblestone) from which you will make a stone pickaxe. If you first started playing Minecraft, then first read the article how to play minecraft, there you will find the basic recipes and understand the basic principles, but here I will still describe how to create a pickaxe - from wooden to diamond.
This is what pickaxes look like in Minecraft:
1. Get wood (5-10 blocks) with your hands and create planks from all the wood (how to play minecraft):
3. In the workbench, craft some sticks:
4. Craft a wooden pickaxe with planks and sticks and memorize this recipe:
The wooden pickaxe is ready, but it is not very strong, you need at least a stone one ...
5. Use a wooden pickaxe to mine a Stone (minimum 3 blocks).
6. Use the 4th recipe, but instead of 3 planks on top, use 3 cobblestones.
This concludes the main article, you have learned how to make a stone pickaxe, in the same way you can make an iron and diamond pickaxe, which are even stronger. I do not recommend making a golden pickaxe, gold is very fragile, it is even weaker than wood, the pickaxe will quickly break and you will lose expensive gold. If you do not know any recipe, then you can look it up in Minecraft recipes. Stock up on 2-3 stone picks and go in search of coal. When you find coal, make torches, with a stone pickaxe and coal you can go underground, and there are already all the resources - the easiest way to find coal, then iron, and you will find gold and diamonds at the very bottom, where the adminium is (impenetrable black block) . Gold ore and diamonds are mined only with the help of an iron, gold and diamond pickaxe, using a wooden or stone pickaxe you will only break the block and not get the precious resource. To use iron ore and gold ore, they must be smelted in a furnace into metals.
At the word “Minecraft”, many imagine a person with a pickaxe somewhere on the surface or in an underground cave. And this is not accidental - after all, using a pickaxe takes up most of the time of a real "digger".
The pickaxe crafting recipe should be learned by any player who wants to explore the world in Minecraft. The upper horizontal row in the crafting window is filled with material for the pickaxe chipper - you can use diamond, iron, gold, stone, even wood will do. The remaining two cells in the middle row are occupied by two wooden sticks - this is the future pickaxe handle. The resulting tool, if you have experience, you can try to enchant. The most valuable in the game is Silk Touch, which allows you to extract blocks, not resources.
It should be remembered that the speed and possibility of extracting resources depends on the material of the pickaxe chipper. You cannot dig iron ore with a wooden pick - you need something more serious than wood, for example, stone. But a pickaxe made of stone will fail in front of diamond ore - iron is required to mine a diamond. And an iron pickaxe will become powerless when trying to mine obsidian - only a diamond pickaxe will cope with such a task.
Video guide:
Hello readers of this guide! So, let's see how important pickaxes are in Minecraft. Pickaxes are needed to extract various underground resources - but there is one caveat! Not every pickaxe can mine diamonds or gold!
Types of picks
- Wooden pick. Starting pick. Quite fragile, very easy to make, 3 Planks and 2 Sticks. Can mine: Stone, Coal.
- Stone pick. It is also unreliable, like its predecessor, but it will help to extract one of the valuable ores - IRON. Crafted with 3 Cobblestones and 2 Sticks. Can get: Stone, Coal, Iron.
- Iron pick. The first serious pick, with it you can get the most valuable resource in the game - DIAMOND. To create it, you will need to dig in the mine and craft a long-awaited pickaxe from 3 iron ingots and 2 sticks. Can get: Stone, Coal, Iron, Gold, Diamonds, Redstone, Lapis Lazuli.
- Golden Pick. A very fragile pickaxe, but striking in its speed. Better leave your gold on the same compass. Crafted with 3 gold ingots and 2 sticks. Can get: Stone, Coal, Iron, Gold, Diamonds, Redstone, Lapis Lazuli.
- Diamond pickaxe. The most valuable pickaxe in the game! If you are lucky enough to get 3 diamonds and 2 sticks, then you can become the proud owner of this pickaxe. Produces ALL resources in the game. Can get: Stone, Coal, Iron, Gold, Diamonds, Redstone, Lapis Lazuli, Obsidian.
