Shovel

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

Natural generation
Iron shovels can also be found in village toolsmith chests.


 * Notes

Equipment
Zombies and Husk 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.

Raids
Vindicators and pillagers that spawn from raids have a small chance to drop an iron shovel which will be badly damaged and sometimes enchanted with a random enchantment.

Trading
Toolsmith villagers sell enchanted iron shovels for 5 to 7 emeralds as part of their tier 1 trades. Toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell stone shovels for one emerald as one of their first tier trades, a 25% chance to sell enchanted iron shovels for 2 emeralds as one of their third tier trades, and a 50% chance to sell enchanted diamond shovels for 5 emeralds as one of their fourth tier 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 the player hits 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.