A hoe is a tool used to harvest certain plant-based or organic blocks more quickly, as well as to till most types of dirt into farmland and convert coarse dirt and rooted dirt to regular dirt.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
||
| Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use cobblestone and its other variants interchangeably. | |
| Damaged Matching Hoe | The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Upgrading[]
Like other diamond tools, a diamond hoe can be upgraded to a netherite hoe, increasing its durability and slightly increasing its mining speed.
| Ingredients | Smithing recipe |
|---|---|
| Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Hoe + Netherite Ingot |
Repairing[]
Grinding[]
| Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2x Damaged Wooden Hoe or 2x Damaged Stone Hoe or 2x Damaged Iron Hoe or 2x Damaged Golden Hoe or 2x Damaged Diamond Hoe or 2x Damaged Netherite Hoe |
The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Unit repair[]
Main article: Anvil mechanics § 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.
Chest loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Wooden Hoe | Cold Ocean ruins | Cold ruins suspicious gravel | 1 | 13.3% |
| Warm ruins suspicious sand | 1 | 13.3% | ||
| Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4% | |
| Diamond Hoe | Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.8% |
| Enchanted Golden Hoe[A] | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% |
| Damaged Enchanted Diamond Hoe[B][C] | Ancient City | Chest | 1 | 16.1% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Wooden Hoe | Cold Ocean ruins | Cold ruins suspicious gravel | 1 | 13.3% |
| Warm ruins suspicious sand | 1 | 13.3% | ||
| Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3% | |
| Diamond Hoe | Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.5% |
| Enchanted Golden Hoe[A] | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% |
| Damaged Enchanted Diamond Hoe[B][C] | Ancient City | Chest | 1 | 16.1% |
- ↑ a b All enchantments are equally probable, including treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, and Swift Sneak), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.
- ↑ a b Enchantment probabilities are the same as a level-30 to level-50 enchantment would be on an enchantment table that had no cap at level 30, and that was able to apply treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, and Swift Sneak), and where the chance of multiple enchantments is not reduced.
- ↑ a b The item has between 80% and 100% of its total durability.
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. In Bedrock Edition, these are 25% chances, and in Java Edition, these are 40% chances.
Villager gifts[]
Toolsmith villagers occasionally throw stone hoes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.[Java Edition only]
Usage[]
Harvesting[]
Hoes are used to harvest certain plant-based or organic blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.
| Block | Breaking time[A] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Wooden | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite | Golden | |
| Sculk Catalyst | 4.5 | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Sculk Shrieker | 4.5 | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.75 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Sculk Sensor | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.25 | 0.2 |
| Calibrated Sculk Sensor | 2.25 | 1.15 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.25 | 0.2 |
| Nether Wart Block Warped Wart Block |
1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Shroomlight | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.15 |
| Hay Bale | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Target | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Dried Kelp Block | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Sponge Wet Sponge |
0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Leaves | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Sculk | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Sculk Vein | 0.3 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Moss Block | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Breaking any other block takes 0 durability if the block breaks instantly when broken by hand, or 1 otherwise.
Tilling[]
Hoes are used to turn dirt, grass blocks, and dirt paths into farmland. To till, press use on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. This does not work on mycelium or podzol,[1] 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 use 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 unable to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if that plant could normally be placed on top of farmland without reverting it to dirt.[2]
Weapon[]
Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1
damage in Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, hoes can do as much as a pickaxe in terms of damage. Hoes use 2 durability when used as a weapon.
In Java Edition, 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).
| Attack damage | Attack speed | Damage/Second (DPS) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1
|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Hoes always attack instantly in Bedrock Edition.
Enchantments[]
A hoe can receive the following enchantments and curses:
| Name | Max Level | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | V | |
| Fortune [note 1] | III | |
| Unbreaking | III | |
| Silk Touch [note 1] | I | |
| Mending | I | |
| Curse of Vanishing | I |
Fuel[]
Wooden hoes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per hoe.
Smelting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget |
Iron Hoe or Golden Hoe + Any fuel |
Piglins[]
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.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoe tills | Blocks | When a block is tilled into farmland | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Item breaks | Players | When a hoe's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | When a block is tilled into farmland | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Players | When a hoe's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Hoe | wooden_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.wooden_hoe |
| Stone Hoe | stone_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.stone_hoe |
| Iron Hoe | iron_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.iron_hoe |
| Diamond Hoe | diamond_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.diamond_hoe |
| Golden Hoe | golden_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.golden_hoe |
| Netherite Hoe | netherite_hoe | Item | item.minecraft.netherite_hoe |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden hoe | wooden_hoe | 329 | Item | item.wooden_hoe.name |
| Stone hoe | stone_hoe | 330 | Item | item.stone_hoe.name |
| Iron hoe | iron_hoe | 331 | Item | item.iron_hoe.name |
| Diamond hoe | diamond_hoe | 332 | Item | item.diamond_hoe.name |
| Golden hoe | golden_hoe | 333 | Item | item.golden_hoe.name |
| Netherite hoe | netherite_hoe | 608 | Item | item.netherite_hoe.name |
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Time to Farm! | Make a Hoe. | Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output. | 10G | Bronze | ||
| MOAR Tools | Construct one type of each tool. | Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material. | 15G | Bronze | ||
| Oooh, shiny! | Distract a Piglin using gold | Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player. | 30G | Silver | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Oh Shiny | Distract Piglins with gold | Nether | While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:
| nether/distract_piglin
|
| A Seedy Place | Plant a seed and watch it grow | Husbandry | Plant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement. | husbandry/plant_seed
|
 | Serious Dedication | Use a Netherite Ingot to upgrade a Hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices | A Seedy Place | Have a netherite hoe in your inventory. | husbandry/obtain_netherite_hoe
|
Video[]
History[]
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100206 |      Added hoes.
| ||||
| Compared to other golden tools, golden hoes had much higher durability, which was 513 instead of 33. | |||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.0.17 | Golden hoes' durability has been decreased from 513 to 65, matching the stone tools. | ||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.2 | Golden hoes now have the same durability as the other gold tools. | ||||
| 1.6 | Test Build 3 | Before, using a hoe on grass blocks was the only way to collect seeds for planting. As tall grass has been introduced, this feature has been removed. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w07a | Player is now unable to till dirt or grass block when there is block on top of them. | |||
| 1.2.4 | release | Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w18a | Wooden hoes can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||
| 12w21a | Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond hoe for 7 emeralds, and 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38a | Hoes now have a sound when tilling dirt. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 1.7.1 | Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Villagers no longer trade iron or diamond hoes, making diamond hoes non-renewable. | |||
| 14w32a | Hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w34c | Stone, iron and diamond hoes now do slightly more damage than an unarmed attack. | |||
| 15w34d | All hoes now lose 1 durability when used as a weapon. | ||||
| 15w35a | Hoes now all do the same damage, but better materials have higher speeds. | ||||
| 15w50a | Added a sound for hoes: item.hoe.till. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Diamond hoes are now found in the new woodland mansion chests. | |||
| 1.11.1 | 16w50a | Golden and iron hoes can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 290 (wooden), 291 (stone), 292 (iron), 293 (diamond) and 294 (golden). | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |      The textures of all hoes have been changed. | |||
| 19w11a | Toolsmith villagers now sell stone hoes and diamond hoes, making diamond hoes renewable again. | ||||
| 19w13a | Toolsmith villagers now give stone hoes to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a |  Added netherite hoes.
| |||
| Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
| Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||||
| 20w09a | Hoes can now break nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly. | ||||
| Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins. | |||||
   The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond hoes have been changed. | |||||
| 20w10a | Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against. | ||||
| Hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch. | |||||
| Hoes now mine hay bales faster than other tools. | |||||
| Netherite hoes are now less common when bartering with piglins. | |||||
| Hoes now lose 2 durability when used as a weapon. | |||||
 The texture of netherite hoes has been changed. | |||||
| Netherite hoes can no longer be crafted. | |||||
| Netherite hoes are now obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||
| 20w11a | Hoes can now mine dried kelp blocks, targets, and shroomlights faster than other tools. | ||||
| 20w12a | Hoes can now mine sponges faster than other tools. | ||||
| 20w15a | Hoes can now mine leaves faster. | ||||
| Stone hoes can now be crafted using blackstone. | |||||
| 20w16a | Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants and ruined portal chests. | ||||
| 20w20a | Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins, making them no longer renewable. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w49a | Hoes can now mine sculk sensors faster than other tools. | |||
| 21w11a | Hoes are now the appropriate tool for breaking moss blocks. | ||||
| 21w08a | Stone hoes can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate. | ||||
| 21w20a | Hoes can now be used on rooted dirt, turning it into normal dirt, yielding a hanging roots item. | ||||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes. | |||
| 22w12a | Hoes can now mine mangrove leaves faster.[3] | ||||
| 22w13a | Diamond hoes may now be found in ancient city chests. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 23w04a | Upgrading diamond hoes to netherite hoes now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template. | |||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Wooden hoes may now be found when brushing suspicious sand and suspicious gravel in cold and warm ocean ruins and trail ruins. | |||
| 23w16a | Wooden hoe no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; wooden hoe now is in the common loot. | |||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| Combat Tests | 1.14.3 - Combat Test | The attack speed of wooden hoes has been changed to 2, stone to 2.5, and diamond and gold to 3.5. | |||
The damage dealt for wooden, stone, and gold hoes have been changed to 2 and iron and diamond hoes to 3. | |||||
| The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.4.0 | Added hoes.
| ||||
| Only iron hoes are available in the Creative inventory. | |||||
| Wheat seeds are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks. | |||||
| v0.8.0 | build 3 | Beetroot seeds, carrots, and potatoes are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks. | |||
| build 4 | Carrots and potatoes no longer spawn from tilling grass blocks with a hoe. | ||||
| v0.11.0 | build 11 | Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes are now available in the creative inventory. | |||
| build 12 | Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes have been removed from creative. | ||||
| build 13 | All hoes are now available in creative mode again. | ||||
| v0.16.2 | Wooden hoes can now be found inside the chest in the large house of ice plains villages. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable. | |||
| Diamond hoes can now be found inside woodland mansion chests. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Hoes can now be used to transform coarse dirt into normal dirt. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Due to villages being overhauled, wooden hoes can no longer be found in villages. | |||
| The textures of all hoes have been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Stone and diamond hoes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers. | |||
| 1.12.0 | beta 1.12.0.4 | The price of diamond hoes sold by toolsmith villagers has been lowered to 4 emeralds. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 |  Added netherite hoes. | |||
| Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
| The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond hoes have been changed. | |||||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against. | ||||
| Hoes can now break hay bales, dried kelp blocks, target blocks, dry and wet sponges, shroomlights, leaves, nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly. | |||||
| Hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch. | |||||
| Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins. | |||||
| Netherite hoes can no longer be crafted. | |||||
| Netherite hoes are now obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||
| Stone Hoes can now be created using Blackstone. | |||||
| Golden and netherite hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests. | |||||
| Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests. | |||||
| Hoes now deal the same damage as pickaxes of each tier. | |||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins, making them no longer renewable. | |||
| 1.17.10 | beta 1.17.10.20 | The texture of netherite hoes has been changed to match Java Edition. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added hoes (all five types). |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The textures of all hoes have been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added hoes. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Hoe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
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.
Gallery[]
Stone hoe in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
Kingbdgoz holding a hoe.
Enchanted hoes[]
References[]
- ↑ MC-8231 — Mycelium and podzol cannot be tilled with hoes
- ↑ MC-167846 — "Hoe cannot be used on blocks with certain blocks on top even if said blocks can normally exist on farmland" — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ "[MC-249270] Mangrove leaves do not have a hoe as their preferred tool - Jira" – Mojira, March 19, 2022.
External Links[]
- Taking Inventory: Hoe – Minecraft.net on June 25, 2019