Hoe

Hoe

• Wooden
• Stone
• Iron
• Golden
• Diamond
• Netherite

Rarity tier	Common
Durability	In Java Edition: Wood: 59 Stone: 131 Iron: 250 Golden: 32 Diamond: 1561 Netherite: 2031 In Bedrock Edition: Wood: 60 Stone: 132 Iron: 251 Golden: 33 Diamond: 1,562 Netherite: 2,032
Renewable	Netherite: No All others: Yes
Stackable	No

{
    "title": "Hoe",
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "Common",
            "label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
        },
        {
            "field": "'''In (link to Java Edition article, displayed as ''Java Edition''):'''\n* Wood: 59\n* Stone: 131\n* Iron: 250\n* Golden: 32\n* Diamond: 1561\n* Netherite: 2031\n\n'''In (link to Bedrock Edition article, displayed as ''Bedrock Edition''):'''\n* Wood: 60\n* Stone: 132\n* Iron: 251\n* Golden: 33\n* Diamond: 1,562\n* Netherite: 2,032",
            "label": "(link to Durability article, displayed as Durability)"
        },
        {
            "field": "\n* '''Netherite''': No \n* '''All others''': Yes",
            "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
        },
        {
            "field": "No",
            "label": "Stackable"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [
        "Wooden Hoe",
        "Stone Hoe",
        "Iron Hoe",
        "Golden Hoe",
        "Diamond Hoe",
        "Netherite Hoe"
    ],
    "images": [
        "Wooden Hoe.png",
        "Enchanted Wooden Hoe.gif",
        "Stone Hoe.png",
        "Enchanted Stone Hoe.gif",
        "Iron Hoe.png",
        "Enchanted Iron Hoe.gif",
        "Golden Hoe.png",
        "Enchanted Golden Hoe.gif",
        "Diamond Hoe.png",
        "Enchanted Diamond Hoe.gif",
        "Netherite Hoe.png",
        "Enchanted Netherite Hoe.gif"
    ]
}

A hoe is a tool that can quickly break sculk and certain plant-related blocks. Hoes also have unique interactions with dirt-related blocks, and can turn them into farmland or regular dirt blocks.

Variants

There are six hoe variants:

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

Obtaining

Crafting

Wooden, stone, iron, golden, and diamond hoes are crafted using 2 sticks and 2 identical units of tool material.

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Any Planks or Any stone-tier block or Iron Ingot or Gold Ingot or Diamond + Stick

Smithing

Ingredients	[hide]Smithing recipe
Netherite Upgrade + Diamond Hoe + Netherite Ingot

Usage

Harvesting

Hoes are used to harvest certain plant-based or organic blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.

Block	Breaking time (sec)
	Default	Wooden	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Netherite	Golden
Sculk Catalyst	4.5	2.25	1.15	0.75	0.6	0.5	0.4
Sculk Shrieker	4.5	2.25	1.15	0.75	0.6	0.5	0.4
Sculk Sensor	2.25	1.15	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.25	0.2
Calibrated Sculk Sensor	2.25	1.15	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.25	0.2
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	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Sculk	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Sculk Vein	0.3	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Moss Block	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Moss Carpet	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Pale Moss Block	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Pale Moss Carpet	0.15	0.1	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

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 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 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 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.

Weapon

A hoe loses 2 points of durability when used as a weapon. Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1HP damage in Java Edition, identical to that of a bare hand. In Bedrock Edition, hoes do equal damage to pickaxes of the same tier.

Java Edition

Hoes have differing attack speeds depending on the material, and all deal 1HP damage.

Material	Wooden	Gold	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Netherite
Attack damage	1HP	1HP	1HP	1HP	1HP	1HP
Attack speed	1	1	2	3	4	4
Damage per second (DPS)	1	1	2	2	2	2
Durability	59	32	131	250	1561	2031
Lifetime damage inflicted	29HP × 14.5	16HP × 8	65HP × 32.5	125HP × 62.5	780HP × 390	1015HP × 507.5

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, hoes have no attack cooldown, and deal the following damage:

Material	Wooden	Gold	Stone	Iron	Diamond	Netherite
Attack damage	3HP	3HP	4HP	5HP	6HP	7HP
Durability	60	33	132	251	1562	2032
Lifetime damage inflicted	90HP × 45	48HP × 24	264HP × 132	625HP × 312.5	4686HP × 2343	7112HP × 3556

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Matching Damaged Hoes		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% of the tool type's total durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	[hide]Description
Matching Damaged Hoes		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Anvil repair

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Anvil recipe
Wooden Hoe	Damaged Wooden Hoe + Any Planks	Wooden Hoe
Stone Hoe	Damaged Stone Hoe + Cobblestone or Blackstone or Cobbled Deepslate	Stone Hoe
Iron Hoe	Damaged Iron Hoe + Iron Ingot	Iron Hoe
Golden Hoe	Damaged Golden Hoe + Gold Ingot	Golden Hoe
Diamond Hoe	Damaged Diamond Hoe + Diamond	Diamond Hoe
Netherite Hoe	Damaged Netherite Hoe + Netherite Ingot	Netherite Hoe

A hoe can be repaired in an 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	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Fortune	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Silk Touch	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the hoe when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The hoe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Sounds

Java Edition

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Hoe tills	Blocks	When a block is tilled into farmland	item.hoe.till	subtitles.item.hoe.till​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Players	When a hoe's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a block is tilled into farmland	use.gravel	1.0	0.8
	Players	When a hoe's durability is exhausted	random.break	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	[hide]Translation key
Wooden Hoe	wooden_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.wooden_hoe
Stone Hoe	stone_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.stone_hoe
Iron Hoe	iron_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.iron_hoe
Diamond Hoe	diamond_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.diamond_hoe
Golden Hoe	golden_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.golden_hoe
Netherite Hoe	netherite_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.netherite_hoe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Wooden hoe	wooden_hoe	329	Item	item.wooden_hoe.name
Stone hoe	stone_hoe	330	Item	item.stone_hoe.name
Iron hoe	iron_hoe	331	Item	item.iron_hoe.name
Diamond hoe	diamond_hoe	332	Item	item.diamond_hoe.name
Golden hoe	golden_hoe	333	Item	item.golden_hoe.name
Netherite hoe	netherite_hoe	608	Item	item.netherite_hoe.name

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool.	Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.	15	Bronze
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver
		Time to Farm!	Make a Hoe.	Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:[hide] The player must not be wearing any gold armor. Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.
	Serious Dedication	Use a Netherite Ingot to upgrade a Hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices	Have a netherite hoe in the inventory.

Video

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

History

[hide]Java Edition Indev
20100206-2034							Added hoes.
							Compared to other golden tools, golden hoes had much higher durability, which was 513 instead of 33.
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.17							Golden hoes' durability has been decreased from 513 to 65, matching the stone tools.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2							Golden hoes now have the same durability as the other gold tools.
1.6			Test Build 3				Before, using a hoe on grass blocks was the only way to collect seeds for planting. As short grass has been introduced, this feature has been removed.
[hide]Java Edition
1.2.1			12w07a				Player is now unable to till dirt or grass block when there is a block on top of them.
1.2.4			release				Spruce planks, birch planks, and jungle planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes.
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.
1.7.2			1.7.1				Acacia planks and dark oak planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes.
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.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of all hoes have been changed.
			19w11a				Toolsmith villagers now sell stone hoes and diamond hoes, making diamond hoes renewable again.
			19w13a				Toolsmith villagers now give stone hoes to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.16			20w06a				Added netherite hoes.
							Netherite hoes are obtained by combining one diamond hoe and one netherite ingot in a crafting table.
							Crimson planks and warped planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes.
			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 blocks, 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 crafted 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.
1.17			20w49a				Hoes can now mine sculk sensors faster than other tools.
			21w11a				Hoes are now the appropriate tool for breaking moss blocks.
			21w08a				Stone hoes can now be crafted using cobbled deepslate.
			21w20a				Hoes can now be used on rooted dirt, turning it into normal dirt, yielding a hanging roots item.
1.19			22w11a				Mangrove planks can now be used to craft wooden hoes.
			22w12a				Hoes can now mine mangrove leaves faster.
			22w13a				Diamond hoes may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Upgrading diamond hoes to netherite hoes now requires the netherite upgrade smithing template.
1.20			23w12a				Wooden hoes may now be found when brushing suspicious sand and suspicious gravel in cold and warm ocean ruins and trail ruins.
			23w16a				Wooden hoes no longer generate in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
							Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins; wooden hoes are now common loot.
[hide]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 have been changed to 2HP and iron and diamond hoes to 3HP.
							The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks.
			Combat Test 7c				The attack damage of netherite hoes has been changed to 4HP.
							The attack speed of netherite hoes has been changed to 3.5.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added hoes.
							Only iron hoes are available in the Creative inventory.
							Wheat seeds are now obtained by using a hoe on grass blocks.
v0.8.0			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.
v0.11.0			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.
v0.16.2							Wooden hoes can now be found inside the chest in the large house of ice plains villages.
[hide]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.
[hide]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.
							Hoes now deal the same damage as pickaxes of each tier.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering with piglins, making them no longer renewable.
1.17.10			beta 1.17.10.20				The texture of netherite hoes has been changed to match Java Edition.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added hoes (all five types).
TU14		1.04					Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 diamond hoe for 7 emeralds, and 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Villagers no longer trade iron or diamond hoes, making diamond hoes non-renewable without resetting the nether to get an infinite amount of diamonds.
							Hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added a sound for hoes. Previously, using a hoe played the sound for walking on farmland.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Iron and golden hoes are now smeltable.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Diamond hoes are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
			1.90				The textures of all hoes have been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added hoes.

• February 20, 2024: A Mojang video about bugs shows early textures of netherite items, including the hoe: [1].

Issues

Issues relating to "Hoe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Tilling a dirt block that 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 while tilling dirt, it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, because tilling is not predicted client-side.

Gallery

Renders

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Screenshots

• 

  Kingbdogz holding a hoe.

In other media

• 

  Stone hoe in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.

• 

  Kai using a hoe, in Introducing New Default Skins!

External links

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