Hoe

Hoe

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

Hoes are tools used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland blocks.

Obtaining

Crafting

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

Natural generation

Wooden hoes can be found in 14.3% of village two-room house chests in groups of 1.^{[Pocket Edition only]}

Diamond hoes can be found in 22.2% of woodland mansion chests in groups of 1.

Usage

Tilling

The hoe is used to turn dirt, grass blocks and grass paths into farmland. To till, press use on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe.

Hoes can also be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt by pressing use on the coarse dirt.

Tilling is effectively instantaneous, regardless of material, and uses 1 durability. Breaking blocks with a hoe uses 0 durability.

Weapon

Hoes may be used as a weapon, though they do 1 () damage, no more than a fist. The hoe uses 1 durability when used as a weapon.

In the Java edition, hoes have an attack speed modifier depending on the material: wood and gold have a modifier of -3 (refill in 1s), stone has a modifier of -2 (refill in 0.5s), iron has a modifier of -1 (refill in 0.33s), and diamond has a modifier of 0 (refill in 0.25s).

Attack damage	Attack speed				Damage/Second (DPS)
1 ()	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4

Hoes always attack instantly in the Console and Pocket editions.

Enchantments

A hoe can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil:

• Unbreaking
• Mending
• Curse of Vanishing

Fuel

Wooden hoes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per hoe.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget or Gold Nugget	Iron Hoe or Golden Hoe + Any fuel

Data values

Item	ID Name	Numerical ID
Wooden Hoe	wooden_hoe	290
Stone Hoe	stone_hoe	291
Iron Hoe	iron_hoe	292
Diamond Hoe	diamond_hoe	293
Golden Hoe	golden_hoe	294

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Pocket	Nintendo
	Time to Farm!	Use planks and sticks to make a hoe	Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10G	Bronze
	MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe and one hoe).		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Serious Dedication	Completely use up a diamond hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices	A Seedy Place	Use up the final bit of durability on a diamond hoe, so that it breaks.	minecraft:husbandry/break_diamond_hoe

History

Indev
February 6, 2010					Added hoes.
Beta
1.6					Before, using a hoe on grass blocks was the only way to collect seeds for planting. When tall grass was introduced, this feature was removed.
Official release
1.3.1			12w18a		Wooden hoes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
			12w21a		Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond hoe for 7 emeralds, and 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds.
1.4.2			12w38a		Hoe now has a sound when tilling dirt.
1.8			14w02a		Villagers no longer trade iron or diamond hoes, making diamond hoes non-renewable.
			14w32a		Hoes can be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt.
1.9			15w34c		Stone, iron, and diamond hoes do slightly more damage than an unarmed attack.
			15w34d		All hoes now lose 1 durability when used as a weapon.
			15w35a		Hoes now all do the same damage, but better materials have higher speeds.
			15w50a		Added sound: item.hoe.till.
1.11			16w39a		Diamond hoes are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.11.1			16w50a		Golden and iron hoes now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added hoes. Wheat seeds are obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks.
0.8.0			build 3		Beetroot seeds, carrots, and potatoes are obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks.
			build 4		Carrots and potatoes are no longer spawned from tilling grass blocks.
0.11.0			build 11		Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes are now available in the creative inventory.
			build 12		Removed wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes from creative.
			build 13		All hoes are available in creative mode again.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0			Added hoes (all five types).
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable.

Issues

Issues relating to “Hoe” are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Tilling a dirt block which has a dirt block on top of it will change it to farmland even though it cannot be used. If a hoe is used on a block horizontally adjacent to such a block, the first block will revert to dirt and the selected block will not be tilled.
• When a hoe breaks it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, since tilling is not predicted client-side.
• Although the word "hoe" is very recognizable in Minecraft, the word appears as "censored" on a sign in the Console Edition.

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