Hoe

Hoe

Type	Tools
Rarity	Common
Durability	Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Golden: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Sounds	Till dirt
Data values	See Data values
Namespaced ID	See Data values

	“	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 blocks.

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.‌[Bedrock, Legacy Console and Java editions only]

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 25% chance to sell a stone hoe for one emerald as part of their trades.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Journeyman-level toolsmith villagers have a 25% chance to sell a diamond hoe for 4 emeralds as part of their trades.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Novice-level Toolsmith villagers have a 40% chance to sell a stone hoe for one emerald. Journeyman-level toolsmiths have a 40% chance to sell a normal diamond hoe for 4 emeralds.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

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.

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 only 1 damage, no more than a fist. Hoes use 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 Legacy Console and Bedrock editions.

Enchantments

A hoe can receive the following enchantments and curses:

Name	Max Level
Unbreaking	III
Mending	I
Curse of Vanishing‌[JE & LCE only]	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

Data values

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

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	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	Wii U, Switch	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	Exhaust the durability of a diamond hoe, breaking it.	minecraft: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. When tall grass was introduced, this feature was removed.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w18a			Wooden hoes can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
		12w21a			Blacksmith villagers will 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 will now 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 will now do slightly more damage than an unarmed attack.
		15w34d			All hoes will now lose 1 durability when used as a weapon.
		15w35a			Hoes will 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 will now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 290, 291, 292, 293 and 294.
1.14		18w43a			Changed the textures of all hoes.
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 will now 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.
					Changed the textures of all hoes.
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			Price of Diamond hoe sold by toolsmith villager lowered to 4 emeralds.
Legacy 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.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					Changed the textures of all hoes.
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, 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 Legacy Console Edition.

References

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