Hoe Rarity Common Durability Wood: 59

Stone: 131

Iron: 250

Golden: 32

Diamond: 1561

Netherite: 2031 Renewable Netherite: Only on Bedrock[until BE 1.16.100]

All others: Yes Stackable No

Hoes are tools used to till dirt and grass blocks into farmland, as well as quickly harvest certain blocks.

Obtaining [ edit ]

Crafting [ edit ]

Upgrading [ edit ]

Repairing [ edit ]

Grinding [ edit ]

Unit repair [ edit ]

A hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding units of the tiers' repair material, with each repair material restoring 25% of the hoe's maximum durability, rounded down.

Natural generation [ edit ]

a b including All enchantments are equally probable, treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed ), and any level of the enchantment is equally probable.

Trading [ edit ]

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.

Bartering [ edit ]

In Bedrock Edition, piglins can offer netherite hoes in exchange of gold ingots.[until BE 1.16.100]

Usage [ edit ]

Tilling [ edit ]

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. 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.

Hoes can 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 or 1 durability, depending on the block.

Hoes are intentionally designed to not be able to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if said plant could normally be placed on top of farmland with no ill effects to the block.[1]

Harvesting [ edit ]

Hoes also function as effective sickles or scythes, and can be used to harvest the following predominantly plant-based blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed

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

Weapon [ edit ]

Hoes may be used as a weapon, although they deal only 1 damage in Java Edition or 2 damage in Bedrock Edition, no more than hitting while barehanded. Hoes use 1 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 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 Bedrock Edition.

Enchantments [ edit ]

A hoe can receive the following enchantments and curses:

a b Fortune and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive. a b Must use an anvil and an enchanted book

Fuel [ edit ]

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

Smelting ingredient [ edit ]

Piglins [ edit ]

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

Sounds [ edit ]

Sound Subtitle Source Description Namespaced ID Translation key Volume Pitch Attenuation

distance Sound parameters Volume Pitch Attenuation

distance Stream Preload https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Hoe_till1.ogg https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Hoe_till2.ogg https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Hoe_till3.ogg https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Hoe_till4.ogg Hoe tills ? When a grass or dirt block is turned into farmland item.hoe.till subtitles.item.hoe.till ? ? 16 ? ? ? ? ? https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Random_break.ogg Item breaks ? When durability is exhausted entity.item.break subtitles.entity.item.break 1.0 0.9 16 ? ? ? ? ?

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Translation key Wooden Hoe wooden_hoe item.minecraft.wooden_hoe Stone Hoe stone_hoe item.minecraft.stone_hoe Iron Hoe iron_hoe item.minecraft.iron_hoe Diamond Hoe diamond_hoe item.minecraft.diamond_hoe Golden Hoe golden_hoe item.minecraft.golden_hoe Netherite Hoe netherite_hoe item.minecraft.netherite_hoe

Bedrock Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Wooden hoe wooden_hoe 290 item.wooden_hoe.name Stone hoe stone_hoe 291 item.stone_hoe.name Iron hoe iron_hoe 292 item.iron_hoe.name Diamond hoe diamond_hoe 293 item.diamond_hoe.name Golden hoe golden_hoe 294 item.golden_hoe.name Netherite hoe netherite_hoe 747 item.netherite_hoe.name

Achievements [ edit ]

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

Advancements [ edit ]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Namespaced ID Oh Shiny

Distract Piglins with gold Nether Give a piglin one of #piglin_loved entity tag these 22 gold-related items in theentity tag nether/distract_piglin A Seedy Place

Plant a seed and watch it grow Husbandry Plant one of these 5 crops . Other crops and plants, if any, 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 [ edit ]

History [ edit ]

Issues [ edit ]

Issues relating to "Hoe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia [ edit ]

Tilling a dirt block, which 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, since tilling is not predicted client-side.

The textures for the post 1.14 iron and stone hoes have an error, where 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 [ edit ]

Enchanted hoes [ edit ]