Minecraft:Iron Hoe

An iron hoe is a variant of Minecraft:hoe that is crafted from Minecraft:iron ingots. It is used to Minecraft:till dirt-related blocks into Minecraft:farmland, and to break Minecraft:leaves, Minecraft:haybales, and sculk-related blocks faster. It is the third-highest Minecraft:tier of hoe, having higher Minecraft:mining efficiency, attack speed, durability, and Minecraft:enchantability than a Minecraft:copper hoe.

Obtaining

Usage

Harvesting

Hoes are used to harvest various Minecraft:plant blocks, Minecraft:Nether fungi, and Minecraft:sculk blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 Minecraft:durability.

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

Tilling

Hoes are used to turn dirt, grass blocks, and dirt paths into Minecraft:farmland. To till, press Template:Control on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. This does not work on Minecraft:mycelium or Minecraft:podzol,<ref>Template:Bug</ref> nor does it work if there are other blocks on top of the targeted blocks, including snow layers or torches. However, mycelium and podzol can be first converted to dirt paths with a shovel, then tilled into farmland with a hoe.

Hoes can be used to convert Minecraft:coarse dirt into regular dirt by pressing Template:Control on the coarse dirt. Similar to tilling dirt, the space above the coarse dirt must be empty for it to be tilled.

Hoes can also be used on Minecraft:rooted dirt, which turns it into normal dirt, and yields a Minecraft:hanging roots item.

Tilling is effectively instantaneous, regardless of material, and uses 1 durability. Breaking blocks with a hoe uses 0 or 1 durability, depending on the block.

Hoes are unable to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if that plant could normally be placed on top of farmland without reverting it to dirt.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Weapon

Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only Template:Hp damage Template:In. Template:IN, hoes can do as much as a pickaxe in terms of damage. Hoes use 1 durability when used as a weapon.

Template:IN, iron hoes have an attack speed modifier -1 (refill in 0.33s).

Hoes always attack instantly Template:In.

Repairing

Anvil repair

A hoe can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding Minecraft:iron ingots, with each ingot restoring 62 durability (25% of its maximum durability, rounded down). Two iron hoes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the hoe's Minecraft:enchantments.

Enchantments

An iron hoe can receive the following Minecraft:enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Minecraft:Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Template:BlockLink or Template:BlockLink	10
Minecraft:Fortune<ref name="exc" group="note">Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive</ref>	Increases the amount of Minecraft:drops when mining.	III	Template:BlockLink or Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Silk Touch<ref name="exc" group="note" />	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Template:BlockLink or Template:BlockLink	1
Minecraft:Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink or Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Mending	Repairs the hoe when obtaining Minecraft:experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	The hoe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Sounds

Hoe/Sounds

Data values

ID

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History

Trivia

• Tilling a Minecraft:dirt block that has a dirt block on top of it changes it to Minecraft:farmland even though it cannot be used. If a hoe is used on a Minecraft:block horizontally adjacent to such a block, the first block reverts to dirt and the selected block is not tilled.
• When a hoe breaks while tilling dirt, it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, because tilling is not predicted client-side.

References

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External links

• Taking Inventory: Hoe – Minecraft.net on June 25, 2019