Q&A for How to Craft a Wooden Axe in Minecraft

If you want to find wood, you need to find an oak tree. You can find lots of oak trees in a forest.

Yes, you can make swords, pickaxes, hoes, and shovels using oak wood. The wood type used when crafting wooden tools doesn't matter, they'll all be the same.

You can craft a wooden shovel using 2 sticks and 1 wooden plank, it can be any wood type. Open a crafting table and place 1 stick in the middle of the bottom row, then the other stick in the middle of the middle row, then place the wooden plank in the middle of the top row. This will make a wooden shovel.

A diamond axe in Java Edition does 9 points of damage, or 4.5 hearts of damage. In Bedrock Edition, axes do less damage than a sword made of the same material, so a diamond axe in this edition will do 6 points of damage, or 3 hearts.

While you can use any type of wood in the game to make this, hickory is not one of them.