Golden Axe

A golden axe is a variant of axe that is crafted from gold ingots. It can be used to cut down trees faster, to strip logs and scrape copper-based blocks, and as a melee weapon that disables shields. It is the sixth-highest tier of axe, having the lowest durability, and having the lowest attack damage alongside wooden axes, despite having the highest mining efficiency and the highest attack speed alongside diamond and netherite axes. It can be admired by piglins, and has the highest enchantability.

A piglin brute spawns with a golden axe and has an 8.5% chance (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II, and 11.5% with Looting III) of dropping it upon death by the player. Also, in Java Edition, zombified piglins can drop their golden axe (with the same chance as piglin brute drop) if they have been zombified from a piglin brute.

Weaponsmith villagers occasionally throw golden axes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.‌[Java Edition only]