Shovel

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

Natural generation

 * Notes

Zombies
Zombies have a 0.67% (3.33% in Hard difficulty) chance of spawning with an iron shovel. They have an 8.5% (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) chance of dropping that shovel if they are killed by the player. It will usually be badly damaged, and may be enchanted: 0%–25% on Normal difficulty and 3.125%–25% on Hard difficulty, varying with regional difficulty, and enchanted as if on an enchantment table at level 5–22.

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
Shovels have different amounts of uses based on the type:
 * Golden: 33
 * Wooden: 60
 * Stone: 132
 * Iron: 251
 * Diamond: 1562

Digging
A shovel can be used to break some materials faster. When breaking a block, it uses 1 durability. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.

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.

Grass paths
A shovel can be used to create a grass path by (not digging) the shovel on a grass block. When creating a grass path, it uses 1 durability.

Weapon
If you hit a mob while holding a shovel, it will be a stronger attack than if barehanded. Shovels take 2 damage when used as a weapon.

Java Edition
Shovels have an attack speed modifier of -3, meaning they take 1 second to recover. Shovels deal different damage based on the type:

Legacy Console and Bedrock editions
In the Legacy Console and Bedrock editions, shovels always attack instantly and do the following damage:

Enchantments
A shovel can receive the following enchantments:


 * Efficiency
 * Silk Touch
 * Fortune
 * Unbreaking
 * Mending
 * Curse of Vanishing

Crafting ingredient
In the Legacy Console and Bedrock editions, wooden shovels are used as "paddles" when crafting the boat.

Fuel
Wooden shovels can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per shovel.