Hoe

Hoe

Rarity	Common
Durability	Wood: 59 Stone: 131 Iron: 250 Golden: 32 Diamond: 1561 Netherite: 2031
Renewable	Netherite: No‌[BE only] 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.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16]}

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Any 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.

Upgrading

Ingredients	Smithing recipe	Description
Diamond Hoe + Netherite Ingot	Upgrade	‌[upcoming: JE 1.16]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Diamond Hoe + Netherite Ingot		‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.0]

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[upcoming: JE 1.16]		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

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

Diamond hoes can be found in 21.8% of woodland mansion chests in groups of 1.

In Bedrock Edition, they can be found in 21.5% of woodland mansion chests in groups of 1.

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

Piglins may very rarely barter a netherite hoe when given a gold ingot.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16]}

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 will not work on mycelium or podzol, nor will 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 can be used to harvest nether wart blocks, warped wart blocks, shroomlights, hay bales, targets, dried kelp blocks, sponges and wet sponges more quickly.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16]} 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

Breaking any other block takes 0 durability if the block breaks instantly, or 1 otherwise.

Weapon

Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1 damage, 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
Mending	I
Silk Touch	I
Curse of Vanishing‌[JE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.16]	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	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Hoe tills	item.hoe.till	subtitles.item.hoe.till	?	?	?	16
	Item breaks	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break		0.9	1.0	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[upcoming: JE 1.16 & BE 1.16.0]	netherite_hoe	-

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox points 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

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Serious Dedication	Completely use up a diamond hoe and then reevaluate your life choices	A Seedy Place	Exhaust the durability of a diamond hoe, breaking it.	husbandry/break_diamond_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 now been introduced, this feature has now 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 now been changed.
Upcoming Java Edition
Combat Tests		1.14.3 - Combat Test			The attack speed of wooden hoes has now 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 now been changed to 2 and iron and diamond hoes to 3.
					The attack reach of axes has now been increased to 4 blocks.
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 now been changed.
		20w10a			Each tier of hoes now has different a speed while mining blocks they are effective against.
					Hoes can now mine hay bales faster than other tools.
					Netherite hoes are now less common when bartering with piglins.
					The texture of netherite hoes has now 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.
		20w12a			Hoes can now mine sponges faster than other tools.
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 now 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 now 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 now been lowered to 4 emeralds.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
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 now been changed.
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.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of all hoes have now 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.
• Hoes made from stronger crafting materials than wood (stone, iron, gold, diamond, and netherite) offer no benefit, only different durabilities (and slightly-faster attack speeds). ^{[until JE 1.16]}
• Netherite Hoes ‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16]} are currently the only renewable Netherite item in the game since you can get them by bartering with piglins.

Gallery

Enchanted Hoes

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References

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