
Gather the stone blocks and you can then use the crafting table to form a Stone Pickaxe, with a wooden plank handle and a stone tip.

(If you use your bare hands to break the stone, it will take longer and you will not actually produce any stone blocks).

Start digging into a hillside to uncover some Stone and use the wooden pickaxe to break up the stone. The wooden pickaxe is a very weak pickaxe, but it's a first step on the path to building a better pickaxe. On the console version, you can do all this directly from the menu there's no need to position items. Jump into the crafting table's crafting area and create a T-formation with the sticks positioned vertically and the wooden blocks arranged horizontally on top of the sticks (see the screenshot below). Craft a handful of these sticks while keeping a few wooden planks handy. The output should be a set of four Sticks. Start by going into the crafting screen (either your personal crafting screen or the crafting table crafting screen, pressing the default key for the inventory E default for PC) and positioning two wooden planks vertically in the crafting area. These tools will help you accomplish tasks such as mining and Farming. Since you've now built a crafting table, you are able to craft a variety of tools, like a Wooden Pickaxe. Note: If you ever need to move the crafting table to another spot, just break it apart with your punches and pick up the remaining block.
