Overview
A Diamond Hoe is the point at which the joke stops, because 1,561 uses means a single hoe tills every field you will ever plant. Its tier multiplier of 8 also breaks the hoe-preferred blocks about as fast as they can be broken, and that list matters more than farming does for a lot of players: sculk and sculk veins in an ancient city, moss and moss carpet in lush caves, nether wart blocks and shroomlights in a crimson forest, hay bales in a village, sponges in an ocean monument. Clearing any of those with the wrong tool is several times slower. Enchanted with Unbreaking III and Mending it becomes permanent, and Silk Touch turns it into the only way to harvest sculk intact for building — moss and sponge already drop themselves. Two diamonds is a real cost early on, but a hoe is the least likely tool to be lost in a cave, so it tends to survive whole worlds. Farmers with large automated fields often keep exactly one diamond hoe, enchanted once, forever. Enchant it once and the tool question is closed for the rest of the world.
A permanent farm tool, and the fastest and only intact way to harvest sculk, moss, sponge and nether wart blocks for building projects. One craft lasts the whole world.
Diamond Hoe is one of the 6 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Stone Hoe is the same shape in a different material.
In Minecraft, Diamond Hoe is a tool item. Expect 1,561 uses before it breaks. Repair it on an anvil with Diamond, or combine two damaged copies.
It accepts enchantments at an enchanting table or anvil. Every copy occupies a full inventory slot. It also turns up in chests in Woodland Mansion and Ancient City.
You make it with Diamond and Stick. The one thing it makes is Netherite Hoe.
About the diamond tool set
How to get it
Craft 1 from 2 Diamonds and 2 Sticks. Its 1,561 uses are more tilling than a single-player world will ever need, and 1 diamond repairs a quarter of it.
Tips
- Silk Touch is the enchantment that matters here: it is the only way sculk comes back as a block rather than nothing.
- Its mining multiplier of 8 is what clears hoe blocks so quickly; the joint-fastest 4.0 attack speed is a separate stat.
- Two diamonds buys a tool you will still be using a hundred hours later; it is not the extravagance it looks like.
- Mending on the hoe means the ambient experience from farming keeps it topped up without an anvil.
Damage and attack speed
Diamond Hoe deals 1 damage per hit and swings 4 times a second, which works out at 4 damage per second when every swing is fully charged.
A swing that lands before the cooldown bar refills deals a fraction of that, so waiting for the bar is worth more than clicking faster.
That is 20 hits to kill a zombie or a creeper, the same for a skeleton, and 16 hits for a spider.
Properties
Diamond Hoe lasts 1,561 uses before it breaks, and Diamond repairs it on an anvil. Two worn copies can also be merged, on an anvil or a grindstone. Unbreaking III roughly quadruples the lifespan, and Mending replaces the repair cost with experience. Its enchantability of 10 decides how good the enchanting table's offers are: the higher the number, the more often a level-30 table offers the top-tier enchantment rather than a weak one. Diamond Hoe does not stack — each one occupies an inventory slot of its own.
- Damage per second
- 4
- Enchantability
- 10
- Repaired with
- Diamond
- Category
- Tools
How it compares to the rest of the set
Every tier of hoe in the game, side by side, so the trade-off is visible in one place: Diamond Hoe sits 5 of 6.
Gold is the outlier: it enchants better than anything else (enchantability 22) and breaks almost immediately, which is why gold gear is enchanted and then upgraded rather than used.
| Item | Durability | Attack damage | Attack speed | Enchantability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Hoe | 59 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Stone Hoe | 131 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Iron Hoe | 250 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| Golden Hoe | 32 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| Diamond Hoe | 1,561 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Netherite Hoe | 2,031 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Diamond Hoe
Found in
Diamond Hoe is in the loot tables of Woodland Mansion and Ancient City.
- Woodland Mansion — An enormous three-storey house of dark oak and cobblestone, generated only in dark forests and typically tens of thousands of blocks from spawn, which makes a woodland explorer map from a cartographer villager the practical way to find one.
- Ancient City — A vast deepslate ruin buried in the deep dark, built around a central sculk-covered structure and a frame of reinforced deepslate that leads nowhere.
Enchantments it can take
5 enchantments can be applied to Diamond Hoe: Efficiency, Fortune, Mending, Silk Touch, and Unbreaking.
Mending is a treasure enchantment and never appears at an enchanting table — they come from loot chests, fishing or villager trades only.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Diamond Hoe in Minecraft?
Diamond Hoe is crafted from Diamond and Stick.
What is the stack size of Diamond Hoe?
Diamond Hoe does not stack at all. Every one you carry takes an inventory slot of its own, which is the practical limit on how many you take on a trip.
How much damage does Diamond Hoe do?
1 damage per fully charged hit, at 4 attacks per second — 4 damage per second. Strength II adds 6 damage on top of that.
How much durability does Diamond Hoe have?
Diamond Hoe has 1561 durability, and can be repaired on an anvil with Diamond.
Can Diamond Hoe be enchanted?
Yes — 5 enchantments apply to it, at an enchanting table with fifteen bookshelves, or from an enchanted book on an anvil. Mending is usually the one worth hunting for, because it removes the repair cost entirely.
The rest of the set
Diamond Hoe is one of 6 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
