Shovels are tools used to hasten the process of breaking dirt, sand, gravel and other soil blocks, as well as to convert dirt blocks into dirt paths.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Any Planks or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick |
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Any stone-tier block + Stick |
Can use any variant of cobblestone | |
Damaged Matching Shovel | The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Upgrading[]
Like other diamond tools, a diamond shovel can be upgraded to a netherite shovel, although increased durability and resistance to fire/lava in item form are the only benefits. The shovel's performance as a digging tool or a weapon is unchanged by the upgrade.
Netherite Upgrade +
Diamond Shovel +
Netherite Ingot
Repairing[]
Grinding[]
Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Description |
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2x Damaged Wooden Shovel or 2x Damaged Stone Shovel or 2x Damaged Iron Shovel or 2x Damaged Golden Shovel or 2x Damaged Diamond Shovel or 2x Damaged Netherite Shovel |
The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Unit repair[]
A shovel can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the shovel's maximum durability, rounded down. It also keeps the shovel's enchantments.
Chest loot[]
On ancient_city/city_center/city_center_2
, they generate a furnace with a wooden shovel inside of it.
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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Java Edition | ||||
Iron Shovel | Village | Toolsmith's chest | 1 | 41.2% |
Enchanted Iron Shovel[A] | End city | Chest | 1 | 13.3% |
Enchanted Golden Shovel[B] | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% |
Diamond Shovel | Bastion remnant | Generic chest | 1 | 6.7% |
Enchanted Diamond Shovel[A] | End city | Chest | 1 | 13.3% |
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Shovel[B][C] | Bastion remnant | Hoglin stable chest | 1 | 17% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Iron Shovel | Village | Toolsmith's chest | 1 | 41.2% |
Enchanted Iron Shovel[A] | End city | Chest | 1 | 13.3% |
Enchanted Golden Shovel[B] | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 20.5% |
Diamond Shovel | Bastion remnant | Generic chest | 1 | 6.7% |
Enchanted Diamond Shovel[A] | End city | Chest | 1 | 13.3% |
Damaged Enchanted Diamond Shovel[B][C] | Bastion remnant | Hoglin stable chest | 1 | 17% |
- ↑ a b c d Enchantment probabilities are the same as a level-20 to level-39 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 c d 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 The item has between 15% and 80% of its total durability.
Mob loot[]
Equipment[]
Zombies and husks 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. The dropped shovel is usually 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 enchanting table at level 5–22.
Raids[]
Vindicators and pillagers that spawn from raids have a 4.1% chance(5.12% on hard) to drop a badly-damaged iron shovel that is sometimes enchanted with a random enchantment.[Bedrock Edition only]
Trading[]
Novice-level toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell stone shovels for one emerald, journeyman-level toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell enchanted iron shovels for 2 emeralds, and expert-level toolsmith villagers have a 50% chance to sell enchanted diamond shovels for 5 emeralds as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only]
Novice-level toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell stone shovels for one emerald, journeyman-level tool smiths have a 40% chance to sell an enchanted iron shovel for 7-22 emeralds, and expert-level tool smiths have a 2⁄3 chance to sell an enchanted diamond shovel for 11-27 emeralds.[Java Edition only]
The enchantments are the same as the ones obtained from an enchanting table at levels 5–19.
Villager gifts[]
in Java Edition, toolsmith villagers occasionally throw stone shovels at players with the Hero of the Village effect.
Usage[]
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.
Durability[]
Each different tier of shovel has a different durability:
Material | Durability |
---|---|
Wood | 59 |
Stone | 131 |
Iron | 250 |
Diamond | 1561 |
Golden | 32 |
Netherite | 2031 |
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 is dropped when the block is destroyed without a shovel.
Block | Breaking time[A] | ||||||
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Default | Wooden | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Netherite | Golden | |
Clay | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Coarse Dirt | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Concrete Powder | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Dirt | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Dirt Path | 1 | 0.5 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Farmland | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Grass Block | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Gravel | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Mud | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Muddy Mangrove Roots | 1.05 | 0.55 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Mycelium | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Podzol | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Red Sand | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Rooted Dirt | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Sand | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Snow | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Snow Block | 1 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Soul Sand | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Soul Soil | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Suspicious Gravel | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Suspicious Sand | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 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.
Dirt paths[]
A shovel can be used to create a dirt path by using (not digging) the shovel on any one of the following blocks, losing one durability point:
Campfire[]
A shovel can be used to extinguish a campfire.
Weapon[]
Hitting a mob while holding a shovel is a stronger attack than 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:
Shovel type | Attack damage | Attack speed | Damage per second (DPS) |
---|---|---|---|
Wooden Shovel Golden Shovel |
2.5 × 1.25 | 1 | 2.5 |
Stone Shovel | 3.5 × 1.75 | 3.5 | |
Iron Shovel | 4.5 × 2.25 | 4.5 | |
Diamond Shovel | 5.5 × 2.75 | 5.5 | |
Netherite Shovel | 6.5 × 3.25 | 1.6 | 10.4 |
Bedrock Edition[]
In Bedrock Edition, shovels always attack instantly and do the following damage:
Attack damage | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Enchantments[]
A shovel can receive, or be found in an End City with the following enchantments:
Name | Max Level | Method |
---|---|---|
Fortune[note 1] | III | |
Silk Touch[note 1] | I | |
Efficiency | V | |
Unbreaking | III | |
Mending | I | |
Curse of Vanishing | I |
Fuel[]
Wooden shovels can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per shovel.
Smelting ingredient[]
Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
---|---|---|
Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget |
Iron Shovel or Golden Shovel + Any fuel |
Piglins[]
Piglins are attracted to golden shovels and run toward any golden shovels on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.
Sounds[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Shovel flattens | Blocks | When a shovel creates a dirt path | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Item breaks | Players | When a shovel's durability is exhausted | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
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Blocks | When a shovel creates a dirt path [sound 1] | use | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
Players | When a shovel's durability is exhausted | random | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
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Wooden Shovel | wooden_shovel | Item | item.minecraft.wooden_shovel |
Stone Shovel | stone_shovel | Item | item.minecraft.stone_shovel |
Iron Shovel | iron_shovel | Item | item.minecraft.iron_shovel |
Diamond Shovel | diamond_shovel | Item | item.minecraft.diamond_shovel |
Golden Shovel | golden_shovel | Item | item.minecraft.golden_shovel |
Netherite Shovel | netherite_shovel | Item | item.minecraft.netherite_shovel |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Wooden Shovel | wooden_shovel | 309 | Item | item.wooden_shovel.name |
Stone Shovel | stone_shovel | 313 | Item | item.stone_shovel.name |
Iron Shovel | iron_shovel | 296 | Item | item.iron_shovel.name |
Diamond Shovel | diamond_shovel | 317 | Item | item.diamond_shovel.name |
Golden Shovel | golden_shovel | 323 | Item | item.golden_shovel.name |
Netherite Shovel | netherite_shovel | 605 | Item | item.netherite_shovel.name |
Achievements[]
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
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PS4 | Other | |||||
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
|
Video[]
History[]
Java Edition Indev | |||||
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0.31 | 20091231-2 | Added iron shovels which are located in the player's inventory. | |||
Shovels cannot be crafted yet and are not functional in this version. | |||||
20100110 | Shovels are now functional and can now be used to gather materials like dirt, sand and gravel 400% faster than by hand. | ||||
20100124 | A complete tool set is no longer given to the player on starting a new world. Instead, there are multiple chests in the later called "Indev House" containing a stack of most accessible blocks/items including tools. | ||||
20100128 | Tools now have tiers. Shovels made from wood, stone, and diamond have been added. | ||||
The texture of iron shovels has been changed. | |||||
A shovel held by the player is now rendered to appear more 3D. | |||||
They cannot be crafted yet, but have been added to the item chest in the Indev house. | |||||
20100129 | Wood, stone, iron, and diamond shovels can now be crafted. | ||||
20100130 | Shovels can now be made out of gold. | ||||
20100201-1 | Tools, including shovels, now take damage when being used. | ||||
Better tools, including shovels, now last longer. | |||||
20100206 | The texture of golden shovels has been changed. | ||||
Java Edition Alpha | |||||
1.0.5_01 | Shovels are now used to get snowballs out of snow layers. | ||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||
April 9, 2011 | Alternate iron shovel texture was shown in Mojang test video. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.2.4 | release | Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden shovels. | |||
1.3.1 | 12w18a | Wooden shovels can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||
12w21a | Blacksmith villagers now sell diamond shovels for 7 emeralds, and iron shovels for 4–5 emeralds. | ||||
1.6.1 | 13w21a | Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1), shovels now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in all shovels doing 1 more damage than before. | |||
1.7.2 | 1.7.1 | Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden shovels. | |||
1.8 | 14w02a | Tool smith villagers now sell enchanted iron shovels for 5–7 emeralds. The previous trades are now unavailable, making diamond shovels non-renewable. | |||
1.9 | 15w31a | A shovel can now be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks. | |||
Enchanted iron or diamond shovels can now be found in end city chests. | |||||
15w34a | Shovels now use the "attack strength" combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for a shovel is 0.8 seconds. | ||||
15w34c | Shovels now do more damage and take longer to recover. | ||||
15w35a | The damage of shovels has been reduced. | ||||
15w41a | Wooden shovels are now used to craft boats. | ||||
15w50a | The sound item.shovel.flatten has been added to shovels. | ||||
16w04a | Wooden shovels are no longer used to craft boats. | ||||
1.11.1 | 16w50a | Golden and iron shovels now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets. | |||
1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 269, 273, 256, 277 and 284. | |||
1.14 | 18w43a | The textures of all shovels have been changed. | |||
18w50a | Iron shovels can now be found in chests in village toolsmith houses. | ||||
19w11a | Toolsmith villagers now sell stone shovels and enchanted diamond shovels, making diamond shovels renewable again. | ||||
19w13a | Toolsmith villagers now give stone shovels to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||
1.15 | 19w37a | Shovels can now be used to extinguish campfires. | |||
1.16 | 20w06a | Added netherite shovels. | |||
Netherite shovels are obtained by combining one diamond shovel and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden shovels. | |||||
20w09a | The texture of diamond shovels has been changed. | ||||
Shovels can now break soul soil quickly. | |||||
20w10a | The texture of netherite shovels has been changed. | ||||
Netherite shovels can no longer be crafted. | |||||
Netherite shovels are now obtained by combining one diamond shovel and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||
20w15a | Stone shovels can now be crafted using blackstone. | ||||
20w16a | Netherite shovels now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests. | ||||
Golden shovels now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests. | |||||
20w17a | Diamonds shovels now generate in place of netherite shovels in bastion remnant chests. | ||||
1.16.2 | 20w30a | Increases the chance of finding randomly enchanted diamond shovels in bastion remnant chests. | |||
Unenchanted, undamaged diamond shovels can also be found in bastion remnant chests. | |||||
1.17 | 21w08a | Stone shovels can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate. | |||
1.19 | 22w11a | Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden shovels. | |||
22w13a | Wooden shovels may now be found in ancient city furnaces. | ||||
1.20 (Experimental) | 23w04a | Upgrading diamond shovels to netherite shovels now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template. | |||
1.20 | 23w14a | Shovel now breaks suspicious sand and suspicious gravel quickly. | |||
Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
Combat Tests | 1.14.3 - Combat Test | The attack speed for all shovels has been increased to 2. | |||
The damage for all shovels has been decreased by 1. | |||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.2.0 | Added stone shovels. | ||||
v0.3.0 | Added wooden shovels. | ||||
Survival players no longer start out with an infinite durability stone shovel in the inventory. | |||||
v0.3.2 | Added iron, gold, and diamond shovels. | ||||
v0.4.0 | Removed stone shovels from the creative inventory. | ||||
v0.11.0 | build 1 | Wooden shovels are now used to craft boats. | |||
Iron shovels are now available in the creative inventory. | |||||
A shovel can now be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks. | |||||
build 11 | Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond shovels are now available in the creative inventory. | ||||
build 12 | All shovels have been removed from creative. | ||||
build 13 | Shovel have been re-added to creative mode. | ||||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Shovels can now be enchanted. | |||
Zombies now have a small chance to spawn holding an iron shovel. | |||||
v0.15.0 | build 1 | Added husks, which have a small chance to spawn holding an iron shovel. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Enchanted iron and diamond shovels can now be found inside end city chests. | |||
1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Enchanted iron shovels are now sold by toolsmith villagers for 4-5 emeralds. | |||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Iron and golden shovels are now smeltable. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The textures of all shovels have been changed. | |||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Iron shovels can now be found in village toolsmith houses. | |||
beta 1.11.0.4 | Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop iron shovels upon death. | ||||
Trading has been changed, toolsmith villagers now have a 25% chance to sell enchanted iron shovels for 2 emeralds as part of their third tier trades. | |||||
Stone shovels and enchanted diamond shovels can now be bought from toolsmith villagers. | |||||
1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Added netherite shovels. | |||
Netherite shovels are obtained by combining one diamond shovel and one netherite ingot in a crafting table. | |||||
The texture of diamond shovels has been changed. | |||||
beta 1.16.0.57 | Netherite shovels can no longer be crafted. | ||||
Netherite shovels are now obtained by combining one diamond shovel and one netherite ingot in a smithing table. | |||||
Stone shovels can now be crafted using blackstone. | |||||
Netherite shovels now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests. | |||||
Golden shovels now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests. | |||||
beta 1.16.0.63 | Diamonds shovels now generate in place of netherite shovels in bastion remnant chests. | ||||
1.20.10 | beta 1.20.10.20 | The wooden shovel in the crafting recipe has been removed for all boat types except the bamboo raft. | |||
beta 1.20.10.21 | The bamboo raft recipe no longer needs a wooden shovel. | ||||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added shovels (all five types). |
TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Iron and golden shovels are now smeltable. |
1.90 | The textures of all shovels have been changed. | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | Added shovels. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Shovel" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
Stone shovel in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
An "adventure shovel" that can break blocks in adventure mode.
Enchanted shovels[]
References[]
External Links[]
- Taking Inventory: Shovel – Minecraft.net on November 16, 2018