Pickaxe

A Pickaxe is a tool used to mine blocks wielding the stone configuration and ores in any Minecraft world. While they are not needed to break Stone outside of Adventure Mode, pickaxes are able to do so with much less time than by hand alone. They are required to gather stone resources for crafting and building, as well as gathering mineral resources such as Iron Ore and Coal. Pickaxes can also be used to gather other blocks, but they aren't as effective and may lose twice as much durability as it would with a regular block of stone. As with all types of tools, there are various types of Enchantments available for the pickaxe. Of all the tools, the pickaxe is the tool that deals the third highest amount of damage when compared to other tools of the same composition.

Types
Listed from lowest mining speed to highest, the pickaxe types are:
 * Wood
 * Cobblestone
 * Iron
 * Diamond
 * Gold

Crafting
Place any type of tip on the above in the three slots in the first row with two sticks as it were the handle in the center column.

Speed and Durability
The following table shows the time it takes to break each type of block. A block marked with a red background indicates that it cannot be harvested by that tool type. A green background indicates the quickest tool types for the corresponding block. Note that some blocks will not drop anything regardless of the tool used.