How do you get Wooden Shovel in Minecraft?

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

What is Wooden Shovel used for?

Wooden Shovel is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic shovel, used to dig dirt, sand, gravel and snow. It has 59 durability.

How much durability does Wooden Shovel have?

Wooden Shovel starts at 59 durability, and every use takes one off. The other 4 wooden items hold 59 too, which makes Wooden Shovel an even trade with any of them. On Wooden Shovel the bar is not the end of it, because Unbreaking makes every point last longer and Mending refills them from experience.

How many Wooden Shovel can you stack?

One Wooden Shovel per slot, since Wooden Shovel does not stack, and every one then costs 1 Planks and 2 Stick. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.

Can Wooden Shovel be used as fuel?

One Wooden Shovel keeps a furnace running for 10 seconds, which is 1 item for each one burnt. Set against its recipe, Wooden Shovel carries the heat that Planks and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Wooden Shovel carries that heat forward.

Can Wooden Shovel be enchanted?

Yes. The list for Wooden Shovel runs to 6: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Wooden Shovel, plus Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.

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Wooden Shovel

The most basic shovel, used to dig dirt, sand, gravel and snow. It has 59 durability.

Stack Size

Durability

Wooden Shovel at a glance

Minecraft files Wooden Shovel under Tools: a tool you get from crafting. One slot, one Wooden Shovel: nothing stacks here, and nine of them fill a hotbar. 27 chest slots take 27 of them. Durability on Wooden Shovel is 59, so 59 swings, blocks or shots are the run of one; it takes enchantments too.

Count on 59 uses out of Wooden Shovel 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. The enchantment pool for Wooden Shovel runs to 6, including Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, and Unbreaking. It closes the Tools list, straight after Wooden Pickaxe, 35 entries in all.

Combat and Mining Stats for Wooden Shovel

Attack damage: 2.5 per hit
Attack speed: 1.0 swings per second
Damage per second: 2.5
Shovel mining speed: 2x
Enchantability: 15
Repairs with: Any planks, 14 points per plank

A Wooden Shovel does 2.5 damage at 1.0 swings a second, so 2.5 damage per second, and that half point is real: every shovel lands half a hit above the pickaxe of the same tier.

Speed 2 on dirt, sand and gravel, 59 uses in the bar, 14 points back per plank. A Wooden Shovel also turns grass into a path, and that costs a use like anything else.

Crafting recipe

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

How to obtain

Crafting

Fuel value

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

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. Right-clicking a grass block turns it into a dirt path.

Frequently asked questions about Wooden Shovel

How do you get Wooden Shovel in Minecraft?
Wooden Shovel is crafted from Planks and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
What is Wooden Shovel used for?
Wooden Shovel is a tool, and it harvests blocks faster than a bare hand does. The most basic shovel, used to dig dirt, sand, gravel and snow. It has 59 durability.
How much durability does Wooden Shovel have?
Wooden Shovel starts at 59 durability, and every use takes one off. The other 4 wooden items hold 59 too, which makes Wooden Shovel an even trade with any of them. On Wooden Shovel the bar is not the end of it, because Unbreaking makes every point last longer and Mending refills them from experience.
How many Wooden Shovel can you stack?
One Wooden Shovel per slot, since Wooden Shovel does not stack, and every one then costs 1 Planks and 2 Stick. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.
Can Wooden Shovel be used as fuel?
One Wooden Shovel keeps a furnace running for 10 seconds, which is 1 item for each one burnt. Set against its recipe, Wooden Shovel carries the heat that Planks and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Wooden Shovel carries that heat forward.
Can Wooden Shovel be enchanted?
Yes. The list for Wooden Shovel runs to 6: Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch, all on Wooden Shovel, plus Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.

Building with it

A wooden shovel with 59 uses digs dirt, sand and gravel a few times faster than bare hands, and that is the whole point on the first day. Once cobblestone is available it is not worth the planks to make another.

In practice

A wooden shovel exists for the first sand pit or gravel patch of a world, and 59 uses covers that. Once cobblestone is available there is no reason to make another, since stone lasts more than twice as long for the same effort.

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