Shovel

Shovel

Type	Tools
Durability	Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Golden: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses
Renewable	Diamond: No All Others: Yes
Stackable	No
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

Shovels are tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt and other blocks.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any Wood Planks or Cobblestone or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick
Damaged Matching Shovel		The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Natural generation

Enchanted iron shovels can be found in 13.4% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Enchanted diamond shovels can be found in 13.4% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Zombies

Main article: Drops § Equipped items

Zombies 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. It will usually be 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 enchantment table at level 5–22.

Trading

Tool smith villagers sell enchanted iron shovels for 5 to 7 emeralds as part of their tier 1 trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.

Usage

Shovels have different amounts of uses based on the type:

• Golden: 33
• Wooden: 60
• Stone: 132
• Iron: 251
• Diamond: 1562

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.

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 will be dropped when the block is destroyed without a shovel.

Block	Breaking time
	Hand	Wooden	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Golden
Clay	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1
Farmland	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1
Grass Block	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1
Grass Path	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1
Gravel	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1
Mycelium	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1
Podzol	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1
Coarse Dirt	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1
Dirt	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1
Red Sand	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1
Sand	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1
Soul Sand	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1
Snow	1	0.2	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05
Snow (layer)	0.5	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

Grass paths

A shovel can be used to create a grass path by using (not digging) the shovel on a grass block. When creating a grass path, it uses 1 durability.

Weapon

If you hit a mob while holding a shovel, it will be a stronger attack than if 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:

Attack speed	Attack damage				Damage/Second (DPS)
1	2.5 ()	3.5 ()	4.5 ()	5.5 ()	2.5	3.5	4.5	5.5

Console and Pocket editions

In the Console and Pocket editions, shovels always attack instantly and do the following damage:

Attack damage
2 ()	3 ()	4 ()	5 ()

Enchantments

A shovel can receive the following enchantments:

• Efficiency
• Silk Touch
• Fortune
• Unbreaking
• Mending
• Curse of Vanishing

Crafting ingredient

In Pocket Edition, wooden shovels are used as "paddles" when crafting the boat.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Boat	Matching Wood Planks + Wooden Shovel		Shovel represents an oar. [Bedrock and Console editions only]

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

Data values

Item	ID Name	Numerical ID
Wooden Shovel	wooden_shovel	269
Stone Shovel	stone_shovel	273
Iron Shovel	iron_shovel	256
Diamond Shovel	diamond_shovel	277
Golden Shovel	golden_shovel	284

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe and one hoe).		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze

History

Indev
0.31			January 11, 2010		Added wooden and stone shovels.
			January 29, 2010		Added crafting recipes for wooden and stone shovels.
					Added iron, diamond and golden shovels.
			January 31, 2010		Shovels now take damage.
					Shovels are now tiered - better shovels last longer.
Official release
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.
1.8			14w02a		Tool smith villagers now sell enchanted iron shovels for 5–7 emeralds. The previous trades are unavailable, making diamond shovels non-renewable.
1.9			15w31a		A shovel can 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 do more damage and take longer to recover.
			15w35a		Shovel damage reduced.
			15w41a		Wooden shovels are now used to craft boats.
			15w50a		Added sound: item.shovel.flatten.
			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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added stone shovels.
0.3.0					Added wooden shovels.
0.3.2					Added diamond, iron and gold shovels.
0.11.0			build 1		Wooden shovels are now used to craft boats.
					Iron shovels are now available in the creative inventory.
					A shovel can 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		Removed all shovels from creative.
			build 13		Re-added shovels to creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Iron and golden shovels are now smeltable.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added shovels (all five types).
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Iron and golden shovels are now smeltable.

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