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 red indicate that no resource will be dropped when the block is destroyed by that quality of shovel.
| Shovels | Nothing | Wood | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durability | ∞ | 60 | 132 | 251 | 1562 | 33 |
| Clay | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Grass | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Gravel | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Dirt | 0.75 secs | 0.4 secs | 0.2 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Sand | 0.75 secs | 0.4 secs | 0.2 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Snow Block | 1 secs* | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs |
| Snow | 0.5 secs* | 0.1 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs |
Although Soul Sand has "sand" in its name, shovels do not help when digging it!