Hoes are tools used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland blocks, the first step in farming wheat, melons or pumpkins. It is an indispensable tool for farming although farming itself is not required ingame.
Usage
The hoe is used to turn dirt and grass blocks into farmland for producing wheat, melons or pumpkins. To till, right-click on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. The material used in the construction of the hoe has almost no effect on the utility of the hoe - the process of tilling is effectively instantaneous regardless of material and all hoes deal the same damage as fists if used in combat. As with all tools, the material used does, however, affect durability of the hoe.
Crafting
Hoes are crafted using 2 sticks and 2 units of a tool material:
| Ingredients | Input » Output | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sticks + Wood or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems |
Template:Grid/Crafting Table | Used to till Dirt and Grass blocks to plant seeds. |
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History
- Prior to Beta 1.2, there was a glitch that placing a dirt block under any block, tilling the dirt, and planting a seed on it would cause the block above to disappear without yielding any blocks. This bug could be used to destroy bedrock.
- Prior to Beta 1.6, using a hoe on grass blocks was the only way to collect seeds for planting. When tall grass was introduced, this feature was removed.
Trivia
- Tilling a dirt block which has a dirt block on top of it will change 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 will revert to dirt and the selected block will not be tilled. The hoe will still take one point of damage from each use.
- When you till a dirt block, the top layer is removed. But due to the way farmland is textured, it appears as if the block sinks into the ground. The texture for the sides is shifted down instead of the top pixels being removed.
- Wooden hoes can be made from just one block of wood, because one block of wood equals four wooden planks, and two wooden planks equals four sticks, and using these you can craft a hoe.
- When a hoe breaks it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools.
- It is impractical to have a gold hoe, as it takes the same time to till with all hoes, but gold has only a few uses.