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
Sounds	Flatten grass
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

	“	The main purpose of a shovel is that it lets you mine certain kinds of blocks faster. Dirt, sand and gravel are the most common reasons to carry a shovel around, but they also work to speed up the collection of clay, soul sand and snow. Higher-tier tools work faster – a snow block that would take a second to break by hand takes 0.2 seconds with a wooden shovel, 0.1 seconds with stone, and a super-quick 0.05 seconds with an iron, gold or diamond shovel. DIGDIGDIGDIGDIG.	„
		— Duncan Geere

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

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any 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 13.3% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Enchanted diamond shovels can be found in 13.3% of End city chests in groups of 1.

Notes

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 Block	1	0.2	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05
Snow	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 the player hits 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

Legacy Console and Bedrock editions

In the Legacy Console and Bedrock 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 the Legacy Console and Bedrock editions, wooden shovels are used as "paddles" when crafting the boat.

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

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	Name ID	Numeric ID‌[BE only]
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	Wii U, Switch	15G	Bronze

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31 (December 31, 2009, 1)					Added iron shovel, they can neither be obtained nor do they have any use.
0.31 (January 11, 2010, 1)					A shovel is used to gather materials like dirt, sand and gravel 400% faster than by hand.
					When starting in a new world the player is given one of each tools.
0.31 (January 24, 2010)					A complete toolset 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 every available block / item including tools.
0.31 (January 28, 2010)					A shovel held by the player appears more 3d like.
0.31 (January 29, 2010)					Tools have tiers, in addition to iron, shovels can now be made from wood, stone and diamond.
					Added crafting recipe for iron shovels as well as the newly introduced variants.
0.31 (January 30, 2010)					Shovels can now be made out of gold.
0.31 (February 1, 2010, 1)					Tools take damage when being used. Better tools last longer.
Java Edition
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.
1.13			17w47a		Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 269, 273, 256, 277 and 284.
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.
Legacy 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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