Q&A for How to Make a Pickaxe on Minecraft

Every single-player crafting recipe works in multiplayer, unless the server has plugins or mods to limit what items can be crafted.

Iron, diamond will work. And soon Netherite will too, once it has been fully implemented into the game.

For the sticks, place 2 wooden planks on top of each other in the crafting table. For a pickaxe, place the 2 sticks in the center and middle-bottom slots, then place whatever material you want the pickaxe to be (diamonds, iron ingots, wooden planks, cobblestone) into the 3 slots at the top.

Netherite is officially in the game with the release of the 1.16 nether update. You can make a netherite pickaxe by first gathering ancient debris, which can be found in the nether. Smelting the ancient debris in a furnace or blast furnace yields a netherite scrap. To craft a netherite pickaxe, you will need 4 of these scraps and 4 gold ingots. You will need to combine them in a crafting table to make 1 netherite ingot. Then, you need to craft a diamond pickaxe and a smithing table. Use the smithing table to combine the diamond pickaxe and the netherite ingot, this will get you a netherite pickaxe.

To get full diamond gear, including all the tools and armor, you will need a total of 35 diamonds. You will need 11 for the tools and 24 for the armor. You can obtain diamonds by mining at Y-level 15 or below. You can also get them from loot chests in temples, village blacksmiths, mineshafts, bastions, buried treasure, shipwrecks, strongholds, nether fortresses, and end cities. Additionally, you can also find already crafted diamond tools and armor in chests in end cities, bastions, and woodland mansions. You can also trade with villagers to get diamond armor and tools, sometimes enchanted.

Crafting a pickaxe in survival Minecraft is, for most players, essential. However, it is possible to beat the game and still not have made a pickaxe. You can do this by not crafting a pickaxe at all and instead using other tools or even TNT.