Shadow Emblem Axe

Quickstart

1. Craft the Shadow Emblem Axe using the recipe below.
2. Equip it in your main hand.
3. Jump into the air and swing at an enemy — the higher you are when you land the hit, the harder it strikes.
4. Try triggering the shockwave and shadow abilities described below while airborne or when your health is low, and watch the action bar for feedback on cooldowns and damage bonuses.

Crafting

Overview

The Shadow Emblem Axe is a rare, single-item weapon built for aerial combat. It rewards players who fight from height, punishing grounded opponents with erosion shockwaves, pulling enemies into the air, and unleashing a defensive shadow burst when things get dangerous. It behaves as both a sword and an axe, so it works for combat and can still chop through wood and other materials effectively.

What It Adds

• A single custom weapon: Shadow Emblem Axe
• A dark-purple glinting item with high durability and strong enchantability
• Multiple built-in special abilities tied to height, timing, and combat momentum

How To Use

• Equip and Swing: Hold the axe and attack normally — it deals solid melee damage and doubles as an efficient axe against wood, bamboo, and cobwebs.
• Airborne Strikes: The longer and higher you are off the ground when you land a hit, the more bonus damage you deal. Watch your action bar for a live damage multiplier readout tied to your current air height.
• Erosion Shockwave: While the axe is active in the air above a minimum height, it can trigger a ground-shaking erosion effect that hits a wide radius around you, dealing area damage and pulling terrain/entities toward the point of impact.
• Chain Grab: Landing successive airborne hits within a short time window can chain into a shockwave that pulls enemies together, letting you continue an aerial combo.
• Absorbing Shadow: When your health drops low, the axe can automatically pulse a defensive shadow effect that draws in nearby threats, helping you survive dangerous encounters. This ability has a long cooldown before it can trigger again.
• Berserker Chance: Landing hits carries a small chance to trigger a temporary berserker state, boosting your combat effectiveness for a short time.
• Relaunch Knockback: Certain airborne hits knock you (and sometimes your target) back into the air, letting you keep extending aerial combos instead of falling immediately.

All of these abilities are tracked per-player and have individual cooldowns, so timing your jumps and hits matters — spamming attacks won't work as well as staying airborne and chaining hits deliberately.

Crafting And Obtaining

The Shadow Emblem Axe is crafted at a crafting table using bedrock, echo shards, a nether star, and reinforced deepslate — see the recipe above. Because of its rare materials, it's intended as an endgame or creative-mode weapon rather than something found early in survival.

It can be repaired using netherite ingots (large durability restore) or echo shards (moderate durability restore) at an anvil or crafting table.

Abilities And Mechanics

Progression And Strategy

Because its power scales with air height, the Shadow Emblem Axe favors players who build terrain, use elytra, or fight from towers and cliffs rather than staying grounded. Chaining airborne hits into erosion shockwaves and chain grabs lets you dominate groups of enemies, while the low-health Absorbing Shadow ability provides a safety net for aggressive playstyles. Managing cooldowns and staying airborne as much as possible is the key to getting the most value out of this weapon.