Axe

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The axe is a tool used for chopping down trees. Regular axes deteriorate through usage.

Usage

An axe can be swung at trees, which will fall after three strikes. Striking this tree can cause any object on the tree to fall, including fruit and beehives. Cutting down a tree results in a stump which must be dug out using a shovel. Swinging an axe when there are no surrounding obstacles results in the player swinging and missing. Attempting to strike a villager with an axe will result in the axe either missing or simply bouncing off of them. Axes used in any game after Doubutsu no Mori have a limited number of uses before shattering, requiring them to be replaced. As an axe degrades, its inventory icon becomes more visibly distressed with a crack appearing to become increasingly larger. Axes can also be used as a substitute for the shovel to hit rocks to find insects, Bells, and ore. This will also quickly degrade the axe, however.

A player after their axe is broken in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

More advanced variations of the axe are available; a silver axe is more durable, and the golden axe is quicker to use and unbreakable. In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the rental axe available from Lloid on Tortimer Island is also unbreakable, despite appearing otherwise identical to a standard axe. Finally, in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the silver axe and golden axe can create special designs on the stumps left behind after felling a tree.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, every type of axe is breakable, even the golden axe. In addition, only the axe made from iron nuggets and the golden axe can break trees by chopping them, and the flimsy axe and stone axe can only cut trees to retrieve wood.