Hoe
Rarity tier |
Common |
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Durability |
In Java Edition:
In Bedrock Edition:
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Renewable |
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Stackable |
No |
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A hoe is a tool used to harvest sculk blocks and many organic blocks more quickly, as well as to till most types of dirt into farmland and convert coarse dirt and rooted dirt to regular dirt.
Variants[edit | edit source]
There are six hoe variants:
Obtaining[edit | edit source]
Crafting[edit | edit source]
Wooden, stone, iron, golden, and diamond hoes are crafted using 2 sticks and 2 identical units of tool material.
Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
Matching Damaged Hoes | The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% of the tool type's total durability. |
Usage[edit | edit source]
Harvesting[edit | edit source]
Hoes are used to harvest certain plant-based or organic blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.
Block | Breaking time (sec)[A] | ||||||
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Default | Wooden | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite | Golden | |
Sculk Catalyst | 4.5 | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Sculk Shrieker | 4.5 | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
Sculk Sensor | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.25 | 0.2 |
Calibrated Sculk Sensor | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.25 | 0.2 |
Nether Wart Block Warped Wart Block |
1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
Shroomlight | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
Hay Bale | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Target | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Dried Kelp Block | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Sponge Wet Sponge |
0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Leaves | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Sculk | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Sculk Vein | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Moss Block | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as used by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Breaking any other block takes 0 durability if the block breaks instantly when broken by hand, or 1 otherwise.
Tilling[edit | edit source]
Hoes are used to turn dirt, grass blocks, and dirt paths into farmland. To till, press use on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. This does not work on mycelium or podzol,[1] nor does it work if there are other blocks on top of the targeted blocks, including snow layers or torches. However, mycelium and podzol can be first converted to dirt paths with a shovel, then tilled into farmland with a hoe.
Hoes can be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt by pressing use on the coarse dirt. Similar to tilling dirt, the space above the coarse dirt must be empty for it to be tilled.
Hoes can also be used on rooted dirt, which turns it into normal dirt, and yields a hanging roots item.
Tilling is effectively instantaneous, regardless of material, and uses 1 durability. Breaking blocks with a hoe uses 0 or 1 durability, depending on the block.
Hoes are unable to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if that plant could normally be placed on top of farmland without reverting it to dirt.[2]
Weapon[edit | edit source]
A hoe loses 2 points of durability when used as a weapon. Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1 damage in Java Edition, identical to that of a bare hand. In Bedrock Edition, hoes do equal damage to pickaxes of the same tier.
Java Edition[edit | edit source]
Hoes have differing attack speeds depending on the material, and all deal 1 damage.
Material | Wooden | Gold | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite |
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Attack damage | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Attack speed | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
Damage per second (DPS) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2[note 1] | 2[note 1] | 2[note 1] |
Durability | 59 | 32 | 131 | 250 | 1561 | 2031 |
Lifetime damage inflicted[note 2] | 29 × 14.5 | 16 × 8 | 65 × 32.5 | 125 × 62.5 | 780 × 390 | 1015 × 507.5 |
- ↑ a b c Effective DPS is limited at 2 due to the 0.5 second invulnerabity timer.
- ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is
ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit
. The durability is halved then ceiled because hoes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1 durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.
Bedrock Edition[edit | edit source]
In Bedrock Edition, hoes have no attack cooldown, and deal the following damage:
Material | Wooden | Gold | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite |
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Attack damage | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Durability | 60 | 33 | 132 | 251 | 1562 | 2032 |
Lifetime damage inflicted[note 1] | 90 × 45 | 48 × 24 | 264 × 132 | 625 × 312.5 | 4686 × 2343 | 7112 × 3556 |
Repairing[edit | edit source]
Grinding[edit | edit source]
Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Description |
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Matching Damaged Hoes | The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Unit repair[edit | edit source]
A hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two hoes of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the hoe's enchantments.
Enchantments[edit | edit source]
A hoe can receive the following enchantments:
Name | Description | Max level | Method | Weight |
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Efficiency | Increases the mining speed. | V | Enchanting Table Anvil |
10 |
Fortune[note 2] | Increases the amount of drops when mining. | III | Enchanting Table Anvil |
2 |
Silk Touch[note 2] | Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined. | I | Enchanting Table Anvil |
1 |
Unbreaking | Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. | III | Enchanting Table Anvil |
5 |
Mending | Repairs the hoe when obtaining experience. | I | Anvil | 2 |
Curse of Vanishing | The hoe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. | I | Anvil | 1 |
- ↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is
ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit
. The durability is halved then ceiled because hoes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1 durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge. - ↑ a b Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive.
Sounds[edit | edit source]
Sounds | ||||||||
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Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
Hoe tills | Blocks | When a block is tilled into farmland | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Item breaks | Players | When a hoe's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 |
Sounds | |||||
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Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
Blocks | When a block is tilled into farmland | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
Players | When a hoe's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Data values[edit | edit source]
ID[edit | edit source]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
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Wooden Hoe | wooden_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.wooden_hoe |
Stone Hoe | stone_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.stone_hoe |
Iron Hoe | iron_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.iron_hoe |
Diamond Hoe | diamond_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.diamond_hoe |
Golden Hoe | golden_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.golden_hoe |
Netherite Hoe | netherite_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.netherite_hoe |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Wooden hoe | wooden_hoe | 329 | Item | item.wooden_hoe.name |
Stone hoe | stone_hoe | 330 | Item | item.stone_hoe.name |
Iron hoe | iron_hoe | 331 | Item | item.iron_hoe.name |
Diamond hoe | diamond_hoe | 332 | Item | item.diamond_hoe.name |
Golden hoe | golden_hoe | 333 | Item | item.golden_hoe.name |
Netherite hoe | netherite_hoe | 608 | Item | item.netherite_hoe.name |
Achievements[edit | edit source]
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
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PS4 | Other | ||||||
Time to Farm!{ "anchor": "", "title": "Time to Farm!", "icon": "", "title": "Time to Farm!", "description": "Make a Hoe. ", "requirements": "Pick up any type of [[hoe]] from a [[crafting table]] output. ", "gamerscore": "10G ", "trophytype": "Bronze ", "rewards": ""Wheat Toothpick" face item " } | Make a Hoe. | Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output. | 10G | Bronze | |||
MOAR Tools{ "anchor": "", "title": "MOAR Tools", "icon": "", "title": "MOAR Tools", "description": "Construct one type of each tool. ", "requirements": "Construct one [[pickaxe]], one [[shovel]], one [[axe]], and one [[hoe]] with the same material. ", "gamerscore": "15G ", "trophytype": "Bronze ", "rewards": "" } | Construct one type of each tool. | Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material. | 15G | Bronze | |||
Oooh, shiny!{ "anchor": "", "title": "Oooh, shiny!", "icon": "oooh-shiny", "title": "Oooh, shiny!", "description": "Distract a [[Piglin]] using [[gold]] ", "requirements": " Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player. ", "gamerscore": "30G ", "trophytype": "Silver ", "rewards": ""Golden Watch" glove " } | Distract a Piglin using gold | Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player. | 30G | Silver |
Advancements[edit | edit source]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
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Oh Shiny | Distract Piglins with gold | While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the
#piglin_loved item tag:
| |
Serious Dedication | Use a Netherite Ingot to upgrade a Hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices | Have a netherite hoe in the inventory. |
Video[edit | edit source]
Note: This video is outdated, as hoes can now be used to break organic blocks since Java Edition 1.16.
History[edit | edit source]
Java Edition Indev | |||||||
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20100206 | Added hoes. | ||||||
Compared to other golden tools, golden hoes had much higher durability, which was 513 instead of 33. | |||||||
Java Edition Alpha | |||||||
v1.0.17 | Golden hoes' durability has been decreased from 513 to 65, matching the stone tools. | ||||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||||
1.2 | Golden hoes now have the same durability as the other gold tools. | ||||||
1.6 | Test Build 3 | Before, using a hoe on grass blocks was the only way to collect seeds for planting. As short grass has been introduced, this feature has been removed. | |||||
Java Edition | |||||||
1.2.1 | 12w07a | Player is now unable to till dirt or grass block when there is a block on top of them. | |||||
1.2.4 | release | Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||||
1.3.1 | 12w18a | Wooden hoes can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||||
12w21a | Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond hoe for 7 emeralds, and 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds. | ||||||
1.4.2 | 12w38a | Hoes now have a sound when tilling dirt. | |||||
1.7.2 | 1.7.1 | Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||||
1.8 | 14w02a | Villagers no longer trade iron or diamond hoes, making diamond hoes non-renewable. | |||||
14w32a | Hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt. | ||||||
1.9 | 15w34c | Stone, iron and diamond hoes now do slightly more damage than an unarmed attack. | |||||
15w34d | All hoes now lose 1 durability when used as a weapon. | ||||||
15w35a | Hoes now all do the same damage, but better materials have higher speeds. | ||||||
15w50a | Added a sound for hoes: item.hoe.till . | ||||||
1.11 | 16w39a | Diamond hoes are now found in the new woodland mansion chests. | |||||
1.11.1 | 16w50a | Golden and iron hoes can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets. | |||||
1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 290 (wooden), 291 (stone), 292 (iron), 293 (diamond) and 294 (golden). | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | The textures of all hoes have been changed. | |||||
19w11a | Toolsmith villagers now sell stone hoes and diamond hoes, making diamond hoes renewable again. | ||||||
19w13a | Toolsmith villagers now give stone hoes to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||||
1.16 | 20w06a | Added netherite hoes. | |||||
Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||||
Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||||||
20w09a | Hoes can now break nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly. | ||||||
Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins. | |||||||
The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond hoes have been changed. | |||||||
20w10a | Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against. | ||||||
Hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch. | |||||||
Hoes now mine hay bales faster than other tools. | |||||||
Netherite hoes are now less common when bartering with piglins. | |||||||
The texture of netherite hoes has been changed. | |||||||
Netherite hoes can no longer be crafted. | |||||||
Netherite hoes are now obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||||
20w11a | Hoes can now mine dried kelp blocks, targets, and shroomlights faster than other tools. | ||||||
20w12a | Hoes can now mine sponges faster than other tools. | ||||||
20w15a | Hoes can now mine leaves faster. | ||||||
Stone hoes can now be crafted using blackstone. | |||||||
20w16a | Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants and ruined portal chests. | ||||||
20w20a | Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins, making them no longer renewable. | ||||||
1.17 | 20w49a | Hoes can now mine sculk sensors faster than other tools. | |||||
21w11a | Hoes are now the appropriate tool for breaking moss blocks. | ||||||
21w08a | Stone hoes can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate. | ||||||
21w20a | Hoes can now be used on rooted dirt, turning it into normal dirt, yielding a hanging roots item. | ||||||
1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||||
22w12a | Hoes can now mine mangrove leaves faster.[3] | ||||||
22w13a | Diamond hoes may now be found in ancient city chests. | ||||||
1.19.4 Experiment | 23w04a | Upgrading diamond hoes to netherite hoes now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template. | |||||
1.20 | 23w12a | Wooden hoes may now be found when brushing suspicious sand and suspicious gravel in cold and warm ocean ruins and trail ruins. | |||||
23w16a | Wooden hoes no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||||
Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins; wooden hoes now are now common loot. | |||||||
Upcoming Java Edition | |||||||
Combat Tests | 1.14.3 - Combat Test | The attack speed of wooden hoes has been changed to 2, stone to 2.5, and diamond and gold to 3.5. | |||||
The damage dealt for wooden, stone, and gold hoes have been changed to 2 and iron and diamond hoes to 3. | |||||||
The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks. | |||||||
Combat Test 7c | The attack damage of netherite hoes has been changed to 4. | ||||||
The attack speed of netherite hoes has been changed to 3.5. | |||||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
v0.4.0 | Added hoes. | ||||||
Only iron hoes are available in the Creative inventory. | |||||||
Wheat seeds are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks. | |||||||
v0.8.0 | build 3 | Beetroot seeds, carrots, and potatoes are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks. | |||||
build 4 | Carrots and potatoes no longer spawn from tilling grass blocks with a hoe. | ||||||
v0.11.0 | build 11 | Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes are now available in the Creative inventory. | |||||
build 12 | Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes have been removed from creative. | ||||||
build 13 | All hoes are now available in creative mode again. | ||||||
v0.16.2 | Wooden hoes can now be found inside the chest in the large house of ice plains villages. | ||||||
Pocket Edition | |||||||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable. | |||||
Diamond hoes can now be found inside woodland mansion chests. | |||||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Hoes can now be used to transform coarse dirt into normal dirt. | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Due to villages being overhauled, wooden hoes can no longer be found in villages. | |||||
The textures of all hoes have been changed. | |||||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Stone and diamond hoes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers. | |||||
1.12.0 | beta 1.12.0.4 | The price of diamond hoes sold by toolsmith villagers has been lowered to 4 emeralds. | |||||
1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Added netherite hoes. | |||||
Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||||
The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond hoes have been changed. | |||||||
beta 1.16.0.57 | Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against. | ||||||
Hoes can now break hay bales, dried kelp blocks, target blocks, dry and wet sponges, shroomlights, leaves, nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly. | |||||||
Hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch. | |||||||
Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins. | |||||||
Netherite hoes can no longer be crafted. | |||||||
Netherite hoes are now obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||||
Stone Hoes can now be created using Blackstone. | |||||||
Golden and netherite hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests. | |||||||
Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests. | |||||||
Hoes now deal the same damage as pickaxes of each tier. | |||||||
1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins, making them no longer renewable. | |||||
1.17.10 | beta 1.17.10.20 | The texture of netherite hoes has been changed to match Java Edition. | |||||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added hoes (all five types). |
TU14 | 1.04 | Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond hoe for 7 emeralds, and 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds. | |||||
TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Villagers no longer trade iron or diamond hoes, making diamond hoes non-renewable without resetting the nether to get an infinite amount of diamonds. | |
Hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt. | |||||||
TU46 | CU36 | 1.38 | 1.38 | 1.38 | Patch 15 | Added a sound for hoes. Previously, using a hoe played the sound for walking on farmland. | |
TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable. |
TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Diamond hoes are now found in the new woodland mansion chests. |
1.90 | The textures of all hoes have been changed. | ||||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
0.1.0 | Added hoes. |
- February 20, 2024: A Mojang video about bugs shows early textures of netherite items, including the hoe: [1].
Issues[edit | edit source]
Issues relating to "Hoe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Tilling a dirt block that has a dirt block on top of it changes it to farmland even though it cannot be used. If a hoe is used on a block horizontally adjacent to such a block, the first block reverts to dirt and the selected block is not tilled.
- When a hoe breaks while tilling dirt, it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, because tilling is not predicted client-side.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Renders[edit | edit source]
Screenshots[edit | edit source]
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Kingbdogz holding a hoe.
In other media[edit | edit source]
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Stone hoe in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
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Kai using a hoe, in Introducing New Default Skins!
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ MC-8231 — Mycelium and podzol cannot be tilled with hoes
- ↑ MC-167846 — Hoe cannot be used on blocks with certain blocks on top even if said blocks can normally exist on farmland — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ MC-249270 — Mangrove leaves do not have a hoe as their preferred tool — resolved as "Fixed".
External links[edit | edit source]
- Taking Inventory: Hoe – Minecraft.net on June 25, 2019
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Axe | |
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