Wooden Hoe

What can it change?

Use the hoe on grass blocks, dirt, or dirt paths to make farmland. It can turn coarse dirt into regular dirt, and rooted dirt into regular dirt while yielding hanging roots. Tilling is effectively instantaneous and costs 1 durability. Mycelium and podzol cannot be tilled directly; a shovel can first turn them into dirt paths. The space above the target must be clear, and a plant on top prevents the hoe from working.

When is it useful as a tool?

The component data assigns speed 2.0 to blocks tagged as mineable with a hoe and marks blocks in the incorrect-for-wooden-tool tag as not correct for drops. The reading describes faster harvesting for certain plant-based or organic blocks; it does not establish that every such block is hoe-effective. Each hoe-effective block broken costs 1 durability. Other blocks cost 0 if they break instantly by hand, or 1 otherwise.

How should I maintain it?

The hoe has 59 maximum durability. An anvil repair with a wooden plank restores 14 durability in Java. Combining two damaged wooden hoes adds their remaining durability plus 5% of maximum durability. Unbreaking can reduce durability consumption, and Mending repairs the hoe when you obtain experience. It can also smelt one item as furnace fuel.

Is it useful in combat?

In Java, the hoe has an attack-speed modifier of −3 and the reading states that hoes deal 1 HP per hit. Treat it primarily as a farming and tool-utility item. Each weapon use costs 1 durability.

Limitations and tradeoffs

• Tilling is effectively instantaneous, but each successful use costs durability.
• Its speed 2.0 applies to blocks tagged as mineable with a hoe; it is not a general mining tool.
• Its Java attack deals little damage.