Iron Hoe

Iron Hoe

Rarity tier	Common
Attack damage	JE: 1HP BE: 5HP
Attack speed‌	3 (0.333 seconds)
Durability	JE: 250 BE: 251
Enchantability	14
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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Iron hoes are tools used to break plant-based blocks such as hay bales quicker and are also used to till dirt and related blocks into farmland. They can also quickly break other blocks such as sculk-related blocks.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot + Stick

Usage

Harvesting

Hoes are used to harvest various plant blocks, fungi, and sculk 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 1HP damage in Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, hoes can do as much as a pickaxe in terms of damage. Hoes use 1 durability when used as a weapon.

In Java Edition, iron hoes have an attack speed modifier -1 (refill in 0.33s).

Hoes always attack instantly in Bedrock Edition.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Damaged		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
2x Damaged Iron hoe		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Unit repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged  + Iron Ingot	Iron Hoe

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

Enchantments

An iron hoe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting Table or Anvil	10
Fortune[note 1]	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table or Anvil	2
Silk Touch[note 1]	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table or Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table or 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

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget	+ Any fuel	0.1

Sounds

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Iron Hoe	iron_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.iron_hoe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Iron hoe	iron_hoe	331	Item	item.iron_hoe.name

Achievements

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
		Time to Farm!	Make a Hoe.	Pick up any type of hoe from a crafting table output.	10	Bronze

Video

History

Java Edition Indev
20100206-2034							Added iron hoe.
Java Edition Beta
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.
Java Edition
1.2.1			12w07a				Player is now unable to till dirt or grass block when there is block on top of them.
1.3.1			12w21a				Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds.
1.4.2			12w38a				Hoes now have a sound when tilling dirt.
1.8			14w02a				Villagers no longer trade iron hoes.
			14w32a				Iron hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt.
1.9			15w34c				Iron hoes now do slightly more damage than an unarmed attack.
			15w34d				Iron 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.
1.11.1			16w50a				Iron hoes can now be smelted down into iron nuggets.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of iron hoe has been changed.
1.16			20w09a				Hoes can now break nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly.
			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.
			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.
1.17			20w49a				Hoes can now mine sculk sensors faster than other tools.
			21w11a				Hoes are now the appropriate tool for breaking moss blocks.
			21w20a				Hoes can now be used on rooted dirt, turning it into normal dirt, yielding a hanging roots item.
1.19			22w12a				Hoes can now mine mangrove leaves faster.[3]
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The damage dealt for iron hoes has been changed to 3HP.
							The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added iron hoe.
							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.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Iron hoes are now smeltable.
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				The texture of iron hoe has been changed.
1.16.0			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.
							Iron hoes now deal the same damage as iron pickaxes.
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 iron hoe.
TU14		1.04					Blacksmith villagers now sell 1 iron hoe for 4–5 emeralds.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Villagers no longer trade iron hoes.
							Iron 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 hoes are now smeltable.
			1.90				The texture of iron hoe has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added iron hoe.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Iron 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

• 
  Enchanted Iron Hoe

References

External links

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

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