Hoe

A hoe is a tool used to till dirt, grass blocks, and dirt paths into farmland, as well as to harvest certain plant-based blocks quickly.

Upgrading
Like other diamond tools, a diamond hoe can be upgraded to a netherite hoe, although the only benefit is the increased durability (plus getting an advancement $$). The hoe's performance as a gardening tool or a weapon is unchanged by the upgrade.

Unit repair
A hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material (or the same hoe of that tier), with each repair material restoring 25% of the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down. It also keeps the hoe's enchantments.

Trading
Novice-level toolsmith villagers have a chance to sell a stone hoe for one emerald, and journeyman-level toolsmiths have a chance to sell a diamond hoe for 4 emeralds. $$, these are 25% chances, and $$, these are 40% chances.

Villager gifts
Toolsmith villagers occasionally throw stone hoes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.

Tilling
Hoes are used to turn dirt, grass blocks, and dirt paths into farmland. To till, press on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. This does not work on mycelium or podzol, 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 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 intentionally designed to be unable to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if that plant could normally be placed on top of farmland with no ill effects to the block.

Harvesting
Hoes also function as effective sickles or scythes, and can be used to harvest the following predominantly plant-based blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.

Breaking any other block takes 0 durability if the block breaks instantly when broken by hand, or 1 otherwise.

Weapon
Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only damage $$. $$, hoes can do as much as a pickaxe in terms of damage. Hoes use 1 durability when used as a weapon.

$$, hoes have an attack speed modifier depending on the material: wood and gold have a modifier of -3 (refill in 1s), stone has a modifier of -2 (refill in 0.5s), iron has a modifier of -1 (refill in 0.33s), and diamond and netherite have a modifier of 0 (refill in 0.25s).

Hoes always attack instantly $$.

Enchantments
A hoe can receive the following enchantments and curses:

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

Piglins
are attracted to golden hoes and run toward any golden hoes on the ground, and inspect them for 6 to 8 seconds before putting them in their inventory.

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Trivia

 * 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, it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, because tilling is not predicted client-side.
 * The textures for the post 1.14 iron and stone hoes have an error, where the color for the edge of the handle is partly the same color as the edge of the top part. This isn't present in any other tool.