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 or to create grass path blocks. When breaking a block or making a grass path, it uses 1 durability. 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 have an attack speed modifier of -3, meaning they take 1 second to recover. Shovels deal different damage based on the type:

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

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
 * Mending

Crafting ingredient
In Pocket Edition, 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.

Issues
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