109 Best Minecraft Tool Names (Listed by Tool Type)

Minecraft has grown from a small game created in six days to one of the most popular games worldwide, with over 100 million active players.

Tools allow Minecraft players to gather materials more efficiently and complete tasks like fishing, farming, mining, and crafting within the game.

Throughout the game, you can obtain tools by crafting — mixing certain “ingredients” (like steel, planks, and iron ingots) to create new tools.

You aren’t required to name your tools in Minecraft, but creating cool names can add more fun to the game and make your experience more unique.

We list more than 100 tool name ideas below (broken down by tool type).

Scroll past the list to find our tips for choosing the best tool names!

Axes

1. Lumberjack
2. Earthsplitter
3. Woodpecker
4. Forestbane
5. Splinter
6. Night’s Edge
7. Treefeller
8. The Warden
9. Sentinel
10. Rusty Chopper
11. The Oracle
12. Knightfall
13. Chop Chop
14. Midnight
15. Piece Maker
16. Wicked Chopper

Bows

1. Drawback
2. Whisperwind
3. Doomsday
4. Longshot
5. Air Strike
6. Bow Exotic:
   a play on Joe Exotic from “Tiger King”
7. Shooting Star
8. Skyblast
9. The Skewer
10. Bowzerk
11. Pew Pew
12. Sticks and Strings
13. Blazing Redemption
14. Tempest
15. David Bowie
16. Backbiter
17. Whirlwind
18. Unbowlievable
19. American Sniper

Fishing Rods

1. Fish Stick
2. Luck of the Sea
3. Catcher
4. Lady Luck
5. Shellraiser
6. Captain Hook
7. Lucky Catch
8. Reel Deal
9. Tangled Angler
10. BassMaster 3000
11. Lure I
12. Roddy
13. Big Reel:
    a play on “big deal”
14. Quick Catch
15. Finding Nemo
16. Reeler

Pickaxes

1. Fortune
2. Stonebreaker
3. Fool’s Fortune
4. Ol’ Rusty
5. Le Pick
6. Maxaxe
7. Ancient Shatterer
8. Smooth Operator
9. Lil Digger
10. Velvet Miner
11. Stone Slicer
12. Earthmover
13. Fortunate Son
14. Ore Obliterator
15. Don’t Mine Me:
    a play on “don’t mind me”
16. Miner
17. Fakeaxe
18. Toothpick

Shovels

1. Scoop Dogg:
   a reference to Snoop Dogg
2. Gravedigger
3. Darth Spader
4. Big Spoon
5. Scoopie
6. Groundbreaker
7. Digs McGee
8. Super Scoop
9. Unearther
10. Excavator
11. Burrows
12. Graveyard
13. Pooper Scooper
14. Super Spoon
15. Ace of Spades

Swords

1. Excalibur:
   King Arthur’s sword
2. Reckoning
3. Valkyrie
4. Rather Sharp Stick
5. Honedge:
   named after the “Pokemon” character
6. Lament
7. Guillotine
8. The Stake
9. Ragespike
10. Demon Edge
11. Godsend
12. Stormbringer
13. Firebrand
14. Reaper
15. Wrath
16. The Big Knife
17. Fate
18. Severance
19. Ghostwalker
20. Darkness
21. Limb’s End
22. Shadowsteel
23. The Amputator
24. Pointy Stick
25. Slicer

How to Choose the Best Minecraft Tool Names

Keep the following tips in mind when choosing names for your Minecraft tools:

• Choose a theme. Sticking with one theme for all of your tools can make it easier to choose names. For example, you might select silly, literal names for all of your tools — “Pointy Stick” for a sword, “Groundbreaker” for a shovel, etc.
• Tap into your sense of humor. Choosing light-hearted names that make you laugh can make Minecraft even more fun. Depending on what you find funny, you can choose a name that’s quirky, sarcastic, ironic, or punny.
• Think of the tool’s features. Minecraft has various tools and upgrades, each of which serves a different purpose within the game. The tool’s use and features can give you a starting point for the perfect name. For example, different pickaxes can mine materials at different speeds, so you might want a name that reflects the speed if you have an ultra-fast pickaxe.