How do you get Wooden Hoe in Minecraft?

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

How much durability does Wooden Hoe have?

The bar on Wooden Hoe holds 59 points, one per use. All 5 wooden items with a bar sit on the same 59, so Wooden Hoe wears down no faster than the rest. Repair comes in two forms on Wooden Hoe: Unbreaking slows the wear down, Mending turns collected experience back into points.

Can Wooden Hoe be enchanted?

Yes. 6 enchantments apply to Wooden Hoe: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Wooden Hoe, plus Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.

What is Wooden Hoe used for?

Wooden Hoe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic hoe, used to till dirt and grass into farmland for planting crops. It has 59 durability.

How many Wooden Hoe can you stack?

One Wooden Hoe per slot, since Wooden Hoe does not stack, and every one then costs 2 Planks and 2 Stick. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.

Can Wooden Hoe be used as fuel?

Wooden Hoe in the bottom slot gives you 10 seconds of heat, which is 1 item apiece. Set against its recipe, Wooden Hoe carries the heat that Planks and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Wooden Hoe carries that heat forward.

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Wooden Hoe

The most basic hoe, used to till dirt and grass into farmland for planting crops. It has 59 durability.

Stack Size

Durability

Wooden Hoe at a glance

Crafting gives you Wooden Hoe, a tool filed under Tools. It does not stack, so every one you carry costs a full inventory slot, and nine of them fill a hotbar row. Expect 59 uses out of Wooden Hoe, with repairs on an anvil to stretch it further; it takes enchantments too.

Count on 59 uses out of Wooden Hoe before it goes, longer with Unbreaking on it, and effectively without end once Mending is on it and you keep picking up experience. Wooden gear is the entry-level tier, crafted from planks and used to bootstrap toward stronger materials. When enchanted, Wooden Hoe can carry 6 different enchantments, among them Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, and Unbreaking. It sits between Wooden Axe and Wooden Pickaxe in Tools, number 33 of 35 there.

Combat and Mining Stats for Wooden Hoe

Attack damage: 1 per hit
Attack speed: 1.0 swings per second
Damage per second: 1
Hoe mining speed: 2x
Enchantability: 15
Repairs with: Any planks, 14 points per plank

Every hoe in the game hits for 1, and the Wooden Hoe is no exception: 1 damage at 1.0 swings a second is 1 damage per second, the weakest thing you can hold.

The number that matters on a Wooden Hoe is the 59 uses, one per block of dirt turned to farmland. Planks put 14 of those back at a time.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Stick
Stick
Wooden Hoe
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Wooden Hoe has the grid for Wooden Hoe

How to obtain

Crafting

Fuel value

Wooden Hoe burns for 10 seconds (200 ticks), which is 1 item per Wooden Hoe

Enchantments

Efficiency Fortune Silk Touch Unbreaking Mending Curse of Vanishing

Click an enchantment to view details on the Enchantments database.

Notes

Any wood type of planks works. As a wooden tool it can be used as furnace fuel.

Frequently asked questions about Wooden Hoe

How do you get Wooden Hoe in Minecraft?
Wooden Hoe is crafted from Planks and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
How much durability does Wooden Hoe have?
The bar on Wooden Hoe holds 59 points, one per use. All 5 wooden items with a bar sit on the same 59, so Wooden Hoe wears down no faster than the rest. Repair comes in two forms on Wooden Hoe: Unbreaking slows the wear down, Mending turns collected experience back into points.
Can Wooden Hoe be enchanted?
Yes. 6 enchantments apply to Wooden Hoe: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Wooden Hoe, plus Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.
What is Wooden Hoe used for?
Wooden Hoe is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic hoe, used to till dirt and grass into farmland for planting crops. It has 59 durability.
How many Wooden Hoe can you stack?
One Wooden Hoe per slot, since Wooden Hoe does not stack, and every one then costs 2 Planks and 2 Stick. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.
Can Wooden Hoe be used as fuel?
Wooden Hoe in the bottom slot gives you 10 seconds of heat, which is 1 item apiece. Set against its recipe, Wooden Hoe carries the heat that Planks and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Wooden Hoe carries that heat forward.

Building with it

The wooden hoe is the cheapest way to start a wheat farm: two planks, two sticks, 59 uses. That is enough to till a modest field, and by the time it breaks a stone or iron hoe is usually within reach.

In practice

The wooden hoe is enough to till a first field, and by the time its 59 uses are gone there is usually cobblestone for a better one. Tilling speed is identical across every material, so nothing is lost by starting with the cheapest.

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