Hoe

A hoe is a tool used to harvest certain plant-based or organic blocks more quickly, as well as to till most types of dirt into farmland and convert coarse dirt and rooted dirt to regular dirt.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Upgrading[]

Like other diamond tools, a diamond hoe can be upgraded to a netherite hoe, increasing its durability and slightly increasing its mining speed.

Repairing[]

Grinding[]

Unit repair[]

A hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material (or the same hoe of that tier), with each repair material restoring 25% of the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down. It also keeps the hoe's enchantments.

Chest loot[]

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.

Villager gifts[]

Toolsmith villagers occasionally throw stone hoes at players with the Hero of the Village status effect.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Usage[]

Harvesting[]

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 farmland. To till, press use on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. This does not work on mycelium or podzol,^[1] 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.^[2]

Weapon[]

Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1 damage in Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, hoes can do as much as a pickaxe in terms of damage. Hoes use 2 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 have 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:

Fuel[]

Wooden hoes can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per hoe.

Smelting ingredient[]

Piglins[]

Piglins are attracted to golden hoes and run toward any golden hoes on the ground, and inspect them for 6 to 8 seconds before putting them in their inventory.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.	nether/distract_piglin
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed
	Serious Dedication	Use a Netherite Ingot to upgrade a Hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices	A Seedy Place	Have a netherite hoe in your inventory.	husbandry/obtain_netherite_hoe

Video[]

History[]

Java Edition Indev
20100206					Added hoes.
					Compared to other golden tools, golden hoes had much higher durability, which was 513 instead of 33.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.17					Golden hoes' durability has been decreased from 513 to 65, matching the stone tools.
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 tall grass has been introduced, this feature has been removed.
Java Edition
1.2.1		12w07a			Player is now unable to till dirt or grass block when there is 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.
1.13		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 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.
					Hoes now lose 2 durability when used as a weapon.
					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.[3]
		22w13a			Diamond hoes may now be found in ancient city chests.
1.20 (Experimental)		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 hoe no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
					Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; wooden hoe now is in the common loot.
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 2 and iron and diamond hoes to 3.
					The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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, it does not display the tool breaking animation like on other tools, because tilling is not predicted client-side.
• The textures for the post 1.14 iron and stone hoes have an error, where the color for the edge of the handle is partly the same color as the edge of the top part. This isn't present in any other tool.

Gallery[]

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  Stone hoe in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.

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  Kingbdgoz holding a hoe.

Enchanted hoes[]

References[]

External Links[]

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