Shovels are auxiliary tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow. Shovels are only necessary to collect snowballs from snow; all other blocks for which shovels are useful can be successfully harvested by hand.
Crafting
Shovels are crafted using 2 sticks and 1 unit 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 dig Dirt, Grass, Sand, Gravel, Clay and Snow faster than by hand. Shovels are required to dig snowballs. |
Speed and Durability
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality shovels perform on different block types. Values marked with (*) and highlighted in blue indicate that no resource will be dropped when the block is destroyed by that quality of shovel.
| Bare hands | Wood | Stone | Iron | Gold | Diamond | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durability | ∞ | 60 | 132 | 251 | 33 | 1562 |
| Dirt | 0.75 sec | 0.40 sec | 0.20 sec | 0.15 sec | 0.10 sec | 0.10 sec |
| Sand | 0.75 sec | 0.40 sec | 0.20 sec | 0.15 sec | 0.10 sec | 0.10 sec |
| Soul Sand | 0.75 sec | 0.75 sec | 0.75 sec | 0.75 sec | 0.75 sec | 0.75 sec |
| Grass | 0.90 sec | 0.45 sec | 0.25 sec | 0.15 sec | 0.10 sec | 0.15 sec |
| Gravel | 0.90 sec | 0.45 sec | 0.25 sec | 0.15 sec | 0.10 sec | 0.15 sec |
| Snow Block | 1.00 sec* | 0.15 sec | 0.10 sec | 0.05 sec | 0.05 sec | 0.05 sec |
| Snow | 0.50 sec* | 0.10 sec | 0.05 sec | 0.05 sec | 0.05 sec | 0.05 sec |
| Clay | 0.90 sec | 0.45 sec | 0.25 sec | 0.15 sec | 0.10 sec | 0.15 sec |