How to Make an Iron Pickaxe in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make an Iron Pickaxe in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Iron Pickaxe recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 3 Iron Ingots and 2 Sticks in a Crafting Table to make 1 Iron Pickaxe.

The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
Each craft uses 5 ingredient items and produces 1 Iron Pickaxe. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 320 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Iron Pickaxe

The iron pickaxe is the lowest tier that can mine diamond, gold, redstone and emerald ore, which makes it the key early-game upgrade.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Iron Pickaxe. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.