Shovel


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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 minecraft recipe Description
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Cobblestoneor
Iron Ingotor
Gold Ingotor
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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 - minecraft 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 - minecraft 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 minecraft 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
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
  1. ⃢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)
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


2 ()

3 ()

4 ()

5 ()

Enchantments

A shovel can receive the following enchantments:

  1. ⃢₆ₑ a b Fortune and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive.
  2. ⃢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 - minecraft chest.

Crafting ingredient

In Pocket Edition, wooden shovels are used as "paddles" when crafting the boat.

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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 minecraft ⃂+
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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 minecraft Ingredients Smelting recipe
Iron Nuggetor
Gold Nugget
Iron Shovelor
Golden Shovel+
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Data values

Item ID Name Numerical ID
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)
Xbox PS Pocket 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
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.

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    Mechanics

    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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    Gold Ingot
    None None
    Wooden Plank
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    Stick
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    Stick
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    Stick
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    Stick
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    Stone Shovel
    Iron Shovel
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    Cobblestone
    None None
    Iron Ingot
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