GameBox: Minecraft Tip #2 Tool durability

Tool durability

The values in this table are the number of useful actions that a tool can perform.

	Gold	Wood	Stone	Iron	Diamond
Durability	33	60	132	251	1562

Gold tools destroy most blocks faster than any other type of tool. However, they can only collect blocks that can be harvested with wooden tools.

The next table shows how many uses remain in a tool, at the first moment its durability bar appears empty.

	Gold	Wood	Stone	Iron	Diamond
Durability	2	3	6	10	61

Using a sword to mine blocks (including some for which they are the fast tool) counts as two uses.
Using a pickaxe, axe or shovel on the wrong type of block only counts as one use (but is slow), but attacking mobs counts as two.
A hoe does not lose durability either mining blocks nor attacking mobs (but in either case, it's no better than bare hands). Its durability applies only to tilling dirt.
Carrot on a Stick has a durability of 26, Flint and Steel and Fishing Rods have a durability of 65, Shears have a durability of 239, and Bows have a durability of 385.
- Like a hoe, each of these use durability only when used in their normal fashions.
- Successfully catching a fish counts as one use of a fishing rod, reeling in the line while it is stuck to a block counts as two uses, and reeling in any mob counts as three uses. Casting into water and reeling in an "empty hook" does not cost durability.
- Shears are only damaged when shearing a sheep and when breaking cobweb, leaves, tall grass, tripwire, and vines blocks.
Items with an Unbreaking Enchantment do not always lose durability when used; for a given enchantment level, the chance that they will use durability is 1 in (1+level). The result is that they will last an extra level times their original durability, give or take a few.