Minecraft:Hoe

A hoe is a tiered Minecraft:tool used to till dirt-related blocks into Minecraft:farmland, and to break Minecraft:leaves, haybales, and sculk-related blocks faster. Hoes also have a unique interaction with coarse dirt, turning them into regular Minecraft:dirt blocks.

Variants

There are seven hoe variants:

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Obtaining

Wooden, golden, stone, copper, iron, and diamond hoes are crafted using 2 Minecraft:sticks and 2 identical units of tool material. This recipe can be flipped horizontally.

Usage

Breaking

Hoes are used to harvest certain plant-based or organic blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 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 {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}use 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 coarse dirt into regular dirt by pressing {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}use 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 rooted dirt, which turns it into normal dirt and yields a 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>

Statistics

Java Edition

in Template:Editions, wooden and golden hoes have an attack speed of 1 (1 second), stone and copper hoes have an attack speed of 2 (0.5 seconds), iron hoes have an attack speed of 3 (0.333 seconds), and diamond and netherite hoes have an attack speed of 4 (0.25 seconds). They have the following statistics:

Unenchanted
Type	Mining efficiency	Attack damage	Attack speed	DPS	Attack range	Hitbox margin	Durability	Lifetime damage inflicted<ref group="note">The formula to find the total lifetime damage is ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit. The durability is halved then ceiled because shovels take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1 durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.</ref>	Enchantability
	2	Template:Hp	1 (1 second)	1	3 (3 blocks)	0	59	Template:Hp	15
(critical)		Template:Hp		1.5				Template:Hp
	12	Template:Hp	1 (1 second)	1			32	Template:Hp	22
(critical)		Template:Hp		1.5				Template:Hp
	4	Template:Hp	2 (0.5 seconds)	2			131	Template:Hp	5
(critical)		Template:Hp		3				Template:Hp
	5	Template:Hp	2 (0.5 seconds)	2			190	Template:Hp	13
(critical)		Template:Hp		3				Template:Hp
	6	Template:Hp	3 (0.333 seconds)	2			250	Template:Hp	14
(critical)		Template:Hp		3				Template:Hp
	8	Template:Hp	4 (0.25 seconds)	2			1561	Template:Hp	10
(critical)		Template:Hp		3				Template:Hp
	9	Template:Hp	4 (0.25 seconds)	2			2031	Template:Hp	15
(critical)		Template:Hp		3				Template:Hp

Enchanted
Type	Base mining efficiency	Efficiency I	Efficiency II	Efficiency III	Efficiency IV	Efficiency V
	2	4	7	12	19	28
	4	6	9	14	21	30
	5	7	10	15	22	31
	6	8	11	16	23	32
	8	10	13	18	25	34
	9	11	14	19	26	35
	12	14	17	22	29	38

Bedrock Edition

Template:Message box Template:Article other in Template:Editions, hoes have no attack cooldown, and have the following statistics:

Material
Attack damage	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp
Damage per second (DPS)	6	6	8	8	10	12	14
Durability	60	33	132	191	251	1562	2032
Lifetime damage inflicted<ref group="note">The formula to find the total lifetime damage is ceil(durability ÷ 2) × damage per hit. The durability is halved then ceiled because hoes take double durability when used as a weapon, and the last 1 durability can also deal damage. The formula also ignores enchantments and critical hits, and assumes each attack is performed at maximum charge.</ref>	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp	Template:Hp

Repairing

Anvil repair

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Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing Template:Repairing A hoe can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down. Two hoes of the same tier can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the hoe's enchantments.

Enchantments

A hoe can receive the following enchantments:

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

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Videos

Note: This video is outdated, as hoes can now be used to break organic blocks since Java Edition 1.16.

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History

Other

• February 20, 2024: File:Netherite Hoe (Pre-release).png A Mojang video about bugs shows early textures of netherite items, including the hoe: [1].

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.

Gallery

Renders

• Enchanted Wooden Hoe
  Enchanted Wooden Hoe
• Enchanted Stone Hoe
  Enchanted Stone Hoe
• Enchanted Copper Hoe
  Enchanted Copper Hoe
• Enchanted Iron Hoe
  Enchanted Iron Hoe
• Enchanted Golden Hoe
  Enchanted Golden Hoe
• Enchanted Diamond Hoe
  Enchanted Diamond Hoe
• Enchanted Netherite Hoe
  Enchanted Netherite Hoe

Minecraft:Super Duper Graphics Pack

• Stone Hoe
  Stone Hoe

Screenshots

• Kingbdogz holding a hoe.
  Kingbdogz holding a hoe.

In other media

• Kai using a hoe, in Introducing New Default Skins!
  Kai using a hoe, in Introducing New Default Skins!
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