Shovel

Shovels are tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt and other blocks.

Zombies
Zombies may rarely spawn with an iron shovel. They have a rare chance of dropping one if they spawned with it. It will usually be badly damaged, and may be enchanted.

Trading
Tool smith villagers sell enchanted iron shovels for 5 to 7 emeralds as part of their tier 1 trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.

Usage
A shovel is used to break some materials faster. When breaking a block, it takes 1 damage. Shovels have different amounts of uses based on the type:
 * Golden: 33
 * Wooden: 60
 * Stone: 132
 * Iron: 251
 * Diamond: 1562

Weapon
If you hit a mob while holding a shovel, it increases your attack damage. Shovels take 2 damage when used as a weapon. Shovels deal different damage based on the type:
 * Wooden and Golden:
 * Stone:
 * Iron:
 * Diamond:

Speed
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality shovels perform on different block types. Values with a red background indicate that no resource will be dropped when the block is destroyed without a shovel.

Enchantments
A shovel can receive the following enchantments:


 * Efficiency
 * Silk Touch
 * Fortune
 * Unbreaking

Issues
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