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.

Materials that shovels dig more efficiently

 * Clay
 * Dirt
 * Grass
 * Gravel
 * Mycelium
 * Sand
 * Snow
 * Snow Block
 * Soul Sand

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 without a shovel. Green cells indicate the fastest tool type.

Schaufel Shovel/es Pelle Ásó Schep Łopata Лопата 锹