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Hoes are tools used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland blocks, the first step in farming. Seeds can be obtained when tilling grass with the hoe. The chance of finding seeds was increased in the Beta 1.2 update.

Hoes are created with 2 sticks and 2 units of a tool material:

Name Ingredients Input » Output Description
Hoes Sticks + Wood or
Cobblestone or
Iron Ingots or
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems
File:CraftingHoesIOanim.gif Used to till Dirt and Grass blocks to find seeds and/or prepare for Crops.

Trivia

  • Tilling a dirt block which has a dirt block on top of it will change it to farmland even though it can't 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.
  • There is a glitch with bedrock that makes use of the Hoe. Placing a dirt block under a bedrock block, tilling the dirt, and removing the dirt block will cause the bedrock to disappear without yielding any blocks.

Notes

  • Since the Beta 1.2 update, wood and stone tools have increased durability, meaning that wood tools have 64 maximum uses, and stone tools have 128 maximum uses.
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