Golden Hoe

Golden Hoe

Rarity tier	Common
Item description‌[BE only]	Farming
Mining efficiency	12
Attack damage	JE: 1HP BE: 3HP
Attack speed‌[JE only]	1 (1 second)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Durability	JE: 32 BE: 33
Enchantability	22
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A golden hoe is a variant of hoe that is crafted from gold ingots. It is used to till dirt-related blocks into farmland, and to break leaves, haybales, and sculk-related blocks faster. It is the sixth-highest tier of hoe, having the lowest durability, and having the lowest attack speed alongside wooden hoes, despite having the highest mining efficiency. It can be admired by piglins, and has the highest enchantability.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot + Stick

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Golden Hoe	Ruined Portal	Chest	1	20.5% { "item": "Enchanted Golden Hoe", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20469270240551518, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }

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, nor does it work if there are other blocks on top of the targeted blocks, including snow 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.

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, golden hoes have an attack speed modifier -3 (refill in 1s).

Hoes always attack instantly in Bedrock Edition.

Repairing

Combining

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

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Notes
2x Damaged Golden Hoe		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Golden Hoe + Gold Ingot	Golden Hoe

A golden hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding gold ingots, with each ingot restoring 8 durability (25% of its maximum durability, rounded down). Two golden hoes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the hoe's enchantments.

Enchantments

A hoe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting TableAnvil	10
Fortune	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting TableAnvil	2
Silk Touch	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting TableAnvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting TableAnvil	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
Gold Nugget	Golden Hoe + Any fuel	0.1

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:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Hoe tills	Blocks	When a block is tilled into farmland	item.hoe.till	subtitles.item.hoe.till​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Players	When a hoe's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8–1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Hoe tills	Blocks	When a block is tilled into farmland	use.gravel	subtitles.item.hoe.till​	1.0	0.8
	​Item breaks	Players	When a hoe's durability is exhausted	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Golden Hoe	golden_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.golden_hoe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Golden hoe	golden_hoe	333	Item	item.golden_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
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item​[more information needed] while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
20100206-2034							Added golden hoe.
							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 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 a block on top of them.
1.4.2			12w38a				Hoes now have a sound when tilling dirt.
1.8			14w32a				Golden hoes can now be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt.
1.9			15w34d				Golden 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				Golden hoes can now be smelted down into gold nuggets.
1.13.1			18w30b				The durability of golden hoes has been reduced from 33 to 32 due to the fix of a bug.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of golden hoe has been changed.
1.16			20w09a				Hoes can now break nether wart and warped wart blocks quickly.
							The texture of golden hoe has 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.
			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.
			20w16a				Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants and ruined portal chests.
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.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3							The attack speed of golden hoes has been changed to 3.5.
							The damage dealt for gold hoes have been changed to 2HP.
							The attack reach of hoes has been increased to 4 blocks.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added golden 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.
v0.11.0			build 11				Golden hoes are now available in the Creative inventory.
			build 12				Golden hoes have been removed from Creative.
			build 13				All hoes are now available in Creative mode again.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Golden 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 golden hoe has been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				The texture of golden hoe has 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.
							Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in bastion remnants chests.
							Golden hoes now generate randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests.
							Golden hoes now deal the same damage as golden pickaxes.

Legacy Console Edition

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 golden hoe.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Golden 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	Golden hoes are now smeltable.
			1.90				The texture of golden hoe has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added golden hoe.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, golden hoe's numeral ID was 294.

Issues

Issues relating to "Golden 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

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  Enchanted appearance in inventory
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  Regular appearance in inventory

In other media

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  A golden hoe as it appeared in Minecraft Earth
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  Several golden hoes made in Kai's factory