Info
Type | Tools |
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Durability | Wood: 60 Uses |
Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to | Diamond: No |
Stackable | No |
Data values | See Data values |
Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | See Data values |
Shovels are tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt Dirt Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 03 hex: 3 bin: 11 Name dirt See Dirt. For the similar block, see and other blocks.
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Crafting
Ingredients | Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe | Description |
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Any Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting or Cobblestoneor Iron Ingotor Gold Ingotor Diamond+ Stick | ||
Damaged Matching Shovel | The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% durability. |
Natural generation
Enchanted iron shovels can be found in 13.4% of End city End City Biome The End Consists of See Structure First appearances See History “ End Cities, replete with End Ships, Chorus Plants, Chorus Flowers and Purpur blocks. Not all is as it seems, however - chests in groups of 1.
Enchanted diamond shovels can be found in 13.4% of End city End City Biome The End Consists of See Structure First appearances See History “ End Cities, replete with End Ships, Chorus Plants, Chorus Flowers and Purpur blocks. Not all is as it seems, however - chests in groups of 1.
Zombies
Zombies Zombie Health points 20 () Armor points 2 () Attack strength Easy: 2 () Normal: 3 () Hard: 4 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn have a 0.67% (3.33% in Hard difficulty) chance of spawning with an iron shovel. They have an 8.5% (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) chance of dropping that shovel if they are killed by the player. It will usually be badly damaged, and may be enchanted: 0%–25% on Normal difficulty and 3.125%–25% on Hard difficulty, varying with regional difficulty, and enchanted as if on an enchantment table at level 5–22.
Trading
Tool smith villagers sell enchanted iron shovels for 5 to 7 emeralds as part of their tier 1 trades. The enchantments will be the same as might be obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5⃢₀ₓ19.
Usage
Shovels have different amounts of uses based on the type:
- Golden: 33
- Wooden: 60
- Stone: 132
- Iron: 251
- Diamond: 1562
Digging
A shovel can be used to break some materials faster. When breaking a block, it uses 1 durability. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.
Speed
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality shovels perform on different block types. Values with a red background indicate that no resource will be dropped when the block is destroyed without a shovel.
Block | Breaking time | |||||
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Hand | Wooden | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Golden | |
Clay | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Farmland | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Grass Block | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Grass Path | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Gravel | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Mycelium | 0.9 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 |
Podzol | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Coarse Dirt | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Dirt | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Red Sand | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Sand | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Soul Sand | 0.75 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Snow | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Snow (layer) | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
- ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.
Grass paths
A shovel can be used to create a grass path by using (not digging) the shovel on a grass block. When creating a grass path, it uses 1 durability.
Weapon
If you hit a mob while holding a shovel, it will be a stronger attack than if barehanded. Shovels take 2 damage when used as a weapon.
Computer edition
Shovels have an attack speed modifier of -3, meaning they take 1 second to recover. Shovels deal different damage based on the type:
Attack speed | Attack damage | Damage/Second (DPS) | ||||||
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1 | 2.5 () | 3.5 () | 4.5 () | 5.5 () | 2.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 5.5 |
Console and Pocket editions
In the Console and Pocket editions, shovels always attack instantly and do the following damage:
Attack damage | |||
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2 () | 3 () | 4 () | 5 () |
Enchantments
A shovel can receive the following enchantments:
- ⃢₆ₑ a b Fortune and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive.
- ⃢₆ₑ a b Only available using enchanted books and an anvil, or by finding an enchanted shovel in an End city End City Biome The End Consists of See Structure First appearances See History “ End Cities, replete with End Ships, Chorus Plants, Chorus Flowers and Purpur blocks. Not all is as it seems, however - chest.
Crafting ingredient
In Pocket Edition, wooden shovels are used as "paddles" when crafting the boat.
Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | Ingredients | Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe | Description |
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Boat | Matching Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting + Wooden Shovel | Pocket Edition only. Shovel represents an oar. |
Fuel
Wooden shovels can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per shovel.
Smelting ingredient
Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
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Iron Nuggetor Gold Nugget | Iron Shovelor Golden Shovel+ Any fuel |
Data values
Item | ID Name | Numerical ID |
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Wooden Shovel | wooden_shovel | 269 |
Stone Shovel | stone_shovel | 273 |
Iron Shovel | iron_shovel | 256 |
Diamond Shovel | diamond_shovel | 277 |
Golden Shovel | golden_shovel | 284 |
Achievements
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Availability | Xbox points earned | Trophy type (PS) | |||
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Xbox | PS | Wii U | |||||||
MOAR Tools | Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe and one hoe). | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 15G | Bronze |
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History
Indev | |||||
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0.31 | Jan. 11, 2010 | Added wooden and stone shovels. | |||
Jan. 29, 2010 | Added crafting recipes for wooden and stone shovels. | ||||
Added iron, diamond and golden shovels. | |||||
Jan. 31, 2010 | Shovels now take damage. | ||||
Shovels are now tiered - better shovels last longer. | |||||
Official release | |||||
1.3.1 | 12w18a | Wooden shovels can now be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||
12w21a | Blacksmith villagers now sell diamond shovels for 7 emeralds, and iron shovels for 4⃢₀ₓ5 emeralds. | ||||
1.8 | 14w02a | Tool smith villagers now sell enchanted iron shovels for 5⃢₀ₓ7 emeralds. The previous trades are unavailable, making diamond shovels non-renewable. | |||
1.9 | 15w31a | A shovel can be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks. | |||
Enchanted iron or diamond shovels can now be found in end city chests. | |||||
15w34a | Shovels now use the "attack strength" combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for a shovel is 0.8 seconds. | ||||
15w34c | Shovels do more damage and take longer to recover. | ||||
15w35a | Shovel damage reduced. | ||||
15w41a | Wooden shovels are now used to craft boats. | ||||
15w50a | Added sound: item.shovel.flatten . | ||||
16w04a | Wooden shovels are no longer used to craft boats. | ||||
1.11.1 | 16w50a | Golden and iron shovels now smelt down into one of their respective nuggets. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
0.2.0 | Added stone shovels. | ||||
0.3.0 | Added wooden shovels. | ||||
0.3.2 | Added diamond, iron and gold shovels. | ||||
0.11.0 | build 1 | Wooden shovels are now used to craft boats. | |||
Iron shovels are now available in the creative inventory. | |||||
A shovel can be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks. | |||||
build 11 | Wooden, stone, golden, and diamond shovels are now available in the creative inventory. | ||||
build 12 | Removed all shovels from creative. | ||||
build 13 | Re-added shovels to creative mode. | ||||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.1 | build 1 | Iron and golden shovels are now smeltable. | |||
Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added shovels (all five types). | |
TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | Patch s3 | Iron and golden shovels are now smeltable. |
Issues
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showMechanics
Shovels are designed for blocks of dirt, sand, gravel, snow, and grass. When a block is destroyed by a shovel, it will be left on the ground for any player to pick up. Crafting a shovel is not a requirement to progress in the game, but they are very useful to have, as they allow a player to destroy some blocks faster than with bare hands. All shovels degrade as they are used for their intended purpose. However, a shovel will lose Durability at twice the rate if it is used to attack Mobs. Shovels made with better materials will last longer. In addition, a shovel can be enchanted with useful qualities, such as "durability" or "silk touch".
Shovels can be crafted out of the following materials (in order of lowest, to highest Durability):
- Gold (has almost half the durability as wood, but is faster than a diamond shovel)
- Wood
- Stone
- Iron
- Diamond
Other uses
Shovels can also be used to flatten grass into Grass Paths, by right-clicking on the grass block (PC), or holding down the action button over the grass block (MCPE).
Crafting
Place two sticks vertically, with either Wood, Stone, Iron, Gold or Diamond on the top.
Gold Shovel | Wooden Shovel | |||||
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None | Gold Ingot | None | None | Wooden Plank | None | |
None | Stick | None | None | Stick | None | |
None | Stick | None | None | Stick | None |
Stone Shovel | Iron Shovel | |||||
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None | Cobblestone | None | None | Iron Ingot | None | |
None |