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Shovels are auxiliary tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow. They are not required to remove aforementioned blocks, although snowballs can only be obtained by shoveling snow.







Crafting

Shovels are created with 2 sticks and 1 unit of a tool material:

Name Ingredients Input » Output Description
Shovels Sticks + Wood or
Cobblestone or
Iron Ingots or
Gold Ingots or
Diamond Gems
File:CraftingShovelsIOanim.gif Used to dig Dirt, Grass, Sand, Gravel and Snow faster than by hand. Shovels are required to dig snowballs.

Performance

The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality shovels perform.

BARE HANDS
WOOD/GOLD
STONE
IRON
DIAMOND
Dirt/Sand
1.05 sec
0.70 sec
0.49 sec
0.44 sec
0.39 sec
Gravel
1.19 sec
0.74 sec
0.54 sec
0.44 sec
0.44 sec
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