Template:Tool
The specific instructions are: Bedrock's netherite hoe uses a different texture
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Hoes are tools used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland, as well as quickly harvest certain blocks.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Planks or Any Cobblestone or Blackstone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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| Damaged Matching Hoe | The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Upgrading
Diamond Hoe +
Netherite Ingot +
Netherite Hoe
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
A hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down.
Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Diamond Hoe | Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.8% |
| Enchanted Golden Hoe[A] | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Diamond Hoe | Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 21.5% |
| Enchanted Golden Hoe[A] | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% |
- ↑ 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.
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.
Bartering
In Bedrock Edition, piglins may offer netherite hoes in exchange of gold ingots.
Usage
Tilling
Hoes are used to turn dirt, grass blocks and grass 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, nor does it work if there are other blocks on top of the targeted blocks, including snow layers.
Hoes can be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt by pressing use on the coarse dirt.
Tilling is effectively instantaneous, regardless of material, and uses 1 durability. Breaking blocks with a hoe uses 0 durability.
Hoes are intentionally designed to not be able to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if said plant could normally be placed on top of farmland with no ill effects to the block.[2]
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.
| Block | Breaking time[A] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | Wooden | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite | Golden | |
| 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 |
- ↑ 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 said block breaks instantly when broken by hand, or 1 otherwise.
Weapon
Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1
damage in Java Edition or 2
damage in Bedrock Edition, no more than hitting while barehanded. Hoes use 1 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 has 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 |
|---|---|
| Efficiency | V |
| Fortune [note 1] | III |
| Unbreaking | III |
| Silk Touch [note 1] | I |
| Mending[note 2] | I |
| Curse of Vanishing[note 2] | 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 |
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoe tills | ? | When a grass or dirt block is turned into farmland | item | subtitles | ? | ? | 16 | |
| Item breaks | ? | When durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.9 | 16 |
Data values
ID
| Item | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID[BE only] |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden Hoe | wooden_hoe
|
290 |
| Stone Hoe | stone_hoe
|
291 |
| Iron Hoe | iron_hoe
|
292 |
| Diamond Hoe | diamond_hoe
|
293 |
| Golden Hoe | golden_hoe
|
294 |
| Netherite Hoe | netherite_hoe
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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 | ||
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
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![]() | 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
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Video
History
| indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2010 | |||||
| beta | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 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. | |||
| 1.8 | 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 | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | ||||
| Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
| 20w09a | Hoes can now break nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly. | ||||
| Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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, 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 created 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. | ||||
| 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 has been changed to 2 | |||||
| The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.4.0 | |||||
| Wheat seeds are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks. | |||||
| 0.8.0 | 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. | ||||
| 0.11.0 | 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. | ||||
| 0.16.2 | 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. | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable. |
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Hoe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Tilling a dirt block, which 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, since tilling is not predicted client-side.







