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Diamond Hoe
ToolsEnchantableCraftable

Diamond Hoe

Used to till dirt and grass into farmland for planting crops. Also breaks leaves, hay bales, and sculk blocks faster.

Stack Size

1

Durability

1561

Category

Tools

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

diamond_hoe

Diamond Hoe at a glance

Diamond Hoe, a tool out of crafting, sits under Tools. It claims a slot each, so nine hotbar slots hold nine and a double chest of 54 slots takes 54. Durability on Diamond Hoe is 1561, so 1561 swings, blocks or shots are the run of one; it takes enchantments too.

Its 1561-point durability sets how many actions Diamond Hoe survives before breaking, and Unbreaking multiplies those 1561 while Mending repairs Diamond Hoe from the experience you pick up. Diamond gear is high tier, capable of handling the toughest blocks and mobs, and any diamond tool or armor piece can be upgraded to Netherite at a smithing table. Diamond Hoe additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Netherite Hoe. The enchantment pool for Diamond Hoe runs to 6, including Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending, and Fortune. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Diamond Hoe, woodland mansion chests are the best bet at about 26% per chest. It sits between Diamond Axe and Diamond Pickaxe in Tools, number 6 of 35 there.

Combat and Mining Stats for Diamond Hoe

Attack damage
1 per hit
Attack speed
4.0 swings per second
Damage per second
4
Hoe mining speed
8x
Enchantability
10
Repairs with
Diamond, 390 points per unit

Four swings a second is the fastest attack speed of anything in Minecraft, and the Diamond Hoe shares that ceiling with netherite. The damage is still 1, which is the joke and the point.

1561 uses of tilling, harvesting hay and stripping leaves at speed 8, and 390 points back per diamond. A Diamond Hoe outlasts almost every farm you will build with it.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
DiamondDiamond
DiamondDiamond
StickStick
StickStick
Diamond HoeDiamond Hoe

Used to craft

Diamond Hoe goes into one recipe, Netherite Hoe, and the link below shows the grid for it. Each link below opens that recipe with Diamond Hoe in the grid.

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Enchantments

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Notes

The preferred tool for breaking leaves, hay bales, sponges, and sculk blocks.

Frequently asked questions about Diamond Hoe

  1. Diamond, Stick going into Diamond Hoe, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Diamond Hoe in Minecraft?

    Diamond Hoe is crafted from Diamond and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. Diamond Hoe with the glow of an enchantment behind it, 6 of which fit

    Can Diamond Hoe be enchanted?

    Yes, and there are 6 to choose from on Diamond Hoe: Efficiency, Unbreaking, and Mending, all on Diamond Hoe, plus Fortune, Silk Touch, and Curse of Vanishing.

  3. Diamond Hoe coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Diamond Hoe added to Minecraft?

    Diamond Hoe was added in the 1.0 full release.

  4. One Diamond Hoe, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Diamond Hoe can you stack?

    One Diamond Hoe per slot, since Diamond Hoe does not stack, and every one then costs 2 Diamond and 2 Stick. A shulker box tops out at 27 of them, one per slot.

  5. Diamond Hoe turning into Netherite Hoe, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Diamond Hoe used for?

    Diamond Hoe is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Netherite Hoe.

  6. Diamond Hoe above a bar drawn to its 1561 points of durability

    How much durability does Diamond Hoe have?

    1561 points. That is how many uses Diamond Hoe has before breaking. 1561 is where diamond stops, and Diamond Hoe sits on that ceiling next to Diamond Pickaxe, Diamond Sword, Diamond Axe, and Diamond Shovel. Unbreaking and Mending both fit Diamond Hoe, and between them the bar stops being a hard limit: one slows the wear, the other undoes it.

  7. A chest beside Diamond Hoe, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Diamond Hoe in chests?

    Diamond Hoe is chest loot in woodland mansion chests (about 26%) and ancient city chests (about 17%). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

Building with it

A diamond hoe tills soil no faster than a wooden one, so its value is entirely in durability and in enchanting. 1561 uses on a tool that also harvests leaves, hay and sponge quickly makes it worth two diamonds for anyone running a large farm.

In practice

Fortune on a hoe raises the seed yield from a wheat field, and the hoe is also the fastest tool for leaves, hay, moss and dried kelp. Both facts arrive late for most players, which is why the diamond hoe has a reputation it does not really deserve.