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Where to Find Diamond Hoe in Minecraft

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

Diamond Hoe at a glance

Diamond Hoe, a crafted item filed under Tools in Minecraft, comes from one place, and this page walks through all 1 method that end with Diamond Hoe in your inventory, fastest one first. To hold Diamond Hoe you craft it from 2 Diamonds and 2 Sticks, and All Overworld biomes (deep underground) is where that happens. Depth matters here: the relevant Y-level range is Y -64 to 16. On our five point scale Diamond Hoe sits at 3, moderately difficult, because it takes some preparation, a little exploration, or a specific resource to obtain reliably.

Primary Location

All Overworld biomes (deep underground)

Y-Level

Diamond ore: Y -64 to 16

Difficulty

Medium (3/5)

Version Added

1.0

Stack Size

1

Durability

1561

Where to Find Diamond Hoe

Diamond Hoe belongs to All Overworld biomes (deep underground), which is one biome and no more for anyone hunting Diamond Hoe. Depth decides the odds on Diamond Hoe: the Y -64 to 16 range is where Diamond Hoe shows up often enough to be worth the tunnel. Tills dirt and grass blocks into farmland for planting seeds. The preferred tool for breaking leaves, hay bales, sponges, and sculk blocks quickly. Diamond Hoe does not spawn naturally in the world or generate in chests as standard loot: it is something you make at a Crafting Table, so the practical question is where to gather its ingredients rather than where to find the finished item.

Biomes & Dimensions

  • All Overworld biomes (deep underground)

Y-Level Range

Diamond ore: Y -64 to 16

Best Way to Get Diamond Hoe

Craft it rather than hunt for it: Diamond Hoe comes off a Crafting Table from Diamond and Stick, and that grid hands you Diamond Hoe every single time you fill it in, which no chest or mob will do. Gather first and craft after, because Diamond Hoe takes Diamond (mine diamond ore deep underground around Y -59) and Stick (crafted from two planks) before the grid does anything. Useful in the Deep Dark for clearing sculk sensors and sculk shriekers. Every Diamond Hoe takes a slot of its own, so a trip that brings back nine has filled the whole hotbar already, and a shulker box is the difference between one run and three of them. One note worth having on Diamond Hoe and its updates: Became the designated tool for leaves and sculk in 1.16+.

All Methods

  1. 1Craft using 2 Diamonds and 2 Sticks

Crafting recipe for Diamond Hoe

Diamond HoeDiamond HoeCrafting Table

Station: Crafting Table

Tips for Finding Diamond Hoe

  • Tills dirt and grass blocks into farmland for planting seeds
  • The preferred tool for breaking leaves, hay bales, sponges, and sculk blocks quickly
  • Useful in the Deep Dark for clearing sculk sensors and sculk shriekers

Version history of Diamond Hoe

  • Became the designated tool for leaves and sculk in 1.16+

More notes on Diamond Hoe

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

Enchantments for Diamond Hoe

Diamond Hoe elsewhere on Astroworld

Items and guides next to Diamond Hoe

If you are here for Diamond Hoe, Diamond Shovel, Diamond Pickaxe, and Diamond Axe are the neighbours worth knowing, since a route to one tends to pass the others. The item page for Diamond Hoe has the numbers this guide leaves out.

View the Diamond Hoe item page

Getting Diamond Hoe in practice

The diamond hoe is the running joke of the game until you keep a large farm, at which point its durability is the point: it tills more soil before breaking than any tier below it, and with Mending it never needs replacing. It also harvests hay bales, dried kelp blocks and moss faster than any other tool.

What to watch out for with Diamond Hoe

Hoes break leaves, hay, moss, sponge and dried kelp faster than any other tool, which is what most players discover long after making one. Combined with Fortune on a wheat field it also raises the seed yield, so a diamond hoe is less a farming tool than a harvesting one.

Frequently asked questions about Diamond Hoe

Where do you find Diamond Hoe in Minecraft?

Diamond Hoe is found in All Overworld biomes (deep underground). Craft using 2 Diamonds and 2 Sticks.

What Y-level is best for Diamond Hoe?

The relevant range is Y -64 to 16. Staying within that band is far more efficient than searching at random depths.

Can you craft Diamond Hoe?

Yes. Diamond Hoe is crafted at a Crafting Table using Diamond and Stick.

How hard is it to find Diamond Hoe?

Finding Diamond Hoe is rated moderately difficult (3 out of 5): it takes some preparation, a little exploration, or a specific resource to obtain reliably.

When was Diamond Hoe added to Minecraft?

Diamond Hoe was added in the original 1.0 release.