Shovel

Shovels are auxiliary tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow. Shovels are only necessary to collect snowballs from snow; all other blocks for which shovels are useful can be successfully harvested by hand.

Uses
A shovel is used to dig some materials faster. A shovel is NOT required to advance forward in the game, it only makes the removal and collection of some materials faster.

Some Materials that a shovel can dig up

 * Sand and Clay
 * Dirt
 * Grass
 * Snow and Snow Block
 * Gravel

Crafting
Shovels are crafted using 2 sticks and 1 unit of a tool material:

Speed and Durability
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality shovels perform on different block types. Values marked with (*) and highlighted in red indicate that no resource will be dropped when the block is destroyed by that quality of shovel.

Shovels are not effective at destroying Soul Sand.

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