Hoe

Hoe

Rarity	Common
Durability	Wood: 59 Stone: 131 Iron: 250 Golden: 32 Diamond: 1561 Netherite: 2031
Renewable	Netherite: Only on Bedrock All others: Yes
Stackable	No

	“	Hoes were added to Minecraft in February 2010, at the same time as the farmland block, seeds, wheat, bread, and a fix for a bug where mobs would occasionally walk around backwards (no moonwalking in Minecraft, please). Like most tools, they come in five varieties: wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond – each with different durabilities.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Hoes are tools used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland, as well as quickly harvest certain blocks.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any Planks or Any Cobblestone or Blackstone 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.

Upgrading

Ingredients	Smithing recipe
Diamond Hoe + Netherite Ingot	Upgrade Gear

Repairing

Grinding

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
2x Damaged Wooden Hoe or 2x Damaged Stone Hoe or 2x Damaged Iron Hoe or 2x Damaged Golden Hoe or 2x Damaged Diamond Hoe or 2x Damaged Netherite Hoe		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Unit repair

Main article: Anvil mechanics § Unit repair

A hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down.

Natural generation

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Diamond Hoe	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.8%
Enchanted Golden Hoe	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	14.3%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%
Bedrock Edition
Diamond Hoe	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	21.5%
Enchanted Golden Hoe	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	1	14.3%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1	20.5%

Trading

Novice-level toolsmith villagers have a chance to sell a stone hoe for one emerald, and journeyman-level toolsmiths have a chance to sell a diamond hoe for 4 emeralds. In Bedrock Edition, these are 25% chances, and in Java Edition, these are 40% chances.

Bartering

In Bedrock Edition, piglins may offer netherite hoes in exchange of gold ingots.

Usage

Tilling

Hoes are 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. This does not work on mycelium or podzol, nor does it work if there are other blocks on top of the targeted blocks, including snow layers.

Hoes can 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.

Hoes are intentionally designed to not be able to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if said plant could normally be placed on top of farmland with no ill effects to the block.

Harvesting

Hoes also function as effective sickles or scythes, and can be used to harvest the following predominantly plant-based blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.

Block	Breaking time
	Default	Wooden	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Netherite	Golden
Nether Wart Block Warped Wart Block	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Shroomlight	1.5	0.75	0.4	0.25	0.2	0.2	0.15
Hay Bale	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1	0.1
Target	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1	0.1
Dried Kelp Block	0.75	0.4	0.2	0.15	0.1	0.1	0.1
Sponge Wet Sponge	0.9	0.45	0.25	0.15	0.15	0.1	0.1
Leaves	0.35	0.2	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

Breaking any other block takes 0 durability if said block breaks instantly when broken by hand, or 1 otherwise.

Weapon

Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1 damage in Java Edition or 2 damage in Bedrock Edition, no more than hitting while barehanded. Hoes use 1 durability when used as a weapon.

In 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 and netherite 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 Bedrock Edition.

Enchantments

A hoe can receive the following enchantments and curses:

Name	Max Level
Efficiency	V
Fortune	III
Unbreaking	III
Silk Touch	I
Mending	I
Curse of Vanishing	I

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	0.1

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Hoe tills	?	When a grass or dirt block is turned into farmland	item.hoe.till	subtitles.item.hoe.till	?	?	16
	Item breaks	?	When durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break	1.0	0.9	16

Data values

ID

Item	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID‌[BE only]
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
Netherite Hoe	netherite_hoe	-

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Time to Farm!	Make a Hoe.	Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output.	10G	Bronze
	MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool.	Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.	15G	Bronze
	Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold.	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	Give a piglin one of these 22 gold-related items while it is aggressive toward the player. Other gold-related items, if any, may be used, but are ignored for this advancement and by the piglin.	nether/distract_piglin
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 5 crops. Other crops and plants, if any, can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed
	Serious Dedication	Use a Netherite ingot to upgrade a hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices	A Seedy Place	Have a netherite hoe in your inventory.	husbandry/obtain_netherite_hoe

History

Java Edition Indev
February 6, 2010					Added hoes.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		Test Build 3			Before, using a hoe on grass blocks was the only way to collect seeds for planting. As tall grass has been introduced, this feature has been removed.
Java Edition
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			Hoes now have a sound when tilling dirt.
1.8		14w02a			Villagers no longer trade iron or diamond hoes, making diamond hoes non-renewable.
		14w32a			Hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt.
1.9		15w34c			Stone, iron and diamond hoes now 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 a sound for hoes: 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 can now be smelted down into one of their respective nuggets.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 290 (wooden), 291 (stone), 292 (iron), 293 (diamond) and 294 (golden).
1.14		18w43a			The textures of all hoes have been changed.
1.16		20w06a			Added netherite hoes.
					Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
		20w09a			Hoes can now break nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly.
					Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins.
					The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond hoes have been changed.
		20w10a			Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against.
					Hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch.
					Hoes now mine hay bales faster than other tools.
					Netherite hoes are now less common when bartering with piglins.
					The texture of netherite hoes has been changed.
					Netherite hoes can no longer be crafted.
					Netherite hoes are now obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
		20w11a			Hoes can now mine dried kelp, targets, and shroomlights faster than other tools.
		20w12a			Hoes can now mine sponges faster than other tools.
		20w15a			Hoes can now mine leaves faster.
					Stone Hoes can now be created using Blackstone.
		20w16a			Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants and ruined portal chests.
		20w20a			Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins, making them no longer renewable.
Upcoming Java Edition
Combat Tests		1.14.3 - Combat Test			The attack speed of wooden hoes has been changed to 2, stone to 2.5, and diamond and gold to 3.5.
					The damage dealt for wooden, stone, and gold hoes has been changed to 2 and iron and diamond hoes to 3.
					The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added hoes.
					Wheat seeds are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks.
0.8.0		build 3			Beetroot seeds, carrots and potatoes are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks.
		build 4			Carrots and potatoes no longer spawn from tilling grass blocks with a hoe.
0.11.0		build 11			Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes are now available in the creative inventory.
		build 12			Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond hoes have been removed from creative.
		build 13			All hoes are now available in creative mode again.
0.16.2					Wooden hoes can now be found inside the chest in the large house of ice plains villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable.
					Diamond hoes can now be found inside woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Hoes can now be used to transform coarse dirt into normal dirt.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Due to villages being overhauled, wooden hoes can no longer be found in villages.
					The textures of all hoes have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Stone and diamond hoes can now be bought from toolsmith villagers.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.4			The price of diamond hoes sold by toolsmith villagers has been lowered to 4 emeralds.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added netherite hoes.
					Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
					The textures of wooden, golden, and diamond hoes have been changed.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against.
					Hoes can now break hay bales, dried kelp blocks, target blocks, dry and wet sponges, shroomlights, leaves, nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly.
					Hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch.
					Netherite hoes can now be obtained through bartering with piglins.
					Netherite hoes can no longer be crafted.
					Netherite hoes are now obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a smithing table.
					Stone Hoes can now be created using Blackstone.
					Golden and netherite hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests.
					Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added hoes (all five types).
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable.
		1.90			The textures of all hoes have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added hoes.

Issues

Issues relating to "Hoe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Tilling a dirt block, which has a dirt block on top of it, changes 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 reverts to dirt and the selected block is not tilled.
• When a hoe breaks, it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, since tilling is not predicted client-side.

Gallery

Enchanted Hoes

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References

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