How to Craft Iron Hoe in Minecraft
Stand at a Crafting Table with 2 Iron Ingots and 2 Sticks and you can make an Iron Hoe. Its pattern is two Iron Ingots side by side in the top row and two Sticks stacked in the middle column. Each attempt hands back 1 Iron Hoe. Durability is 250, and that is how many uses one gets you.
Iron Hoe Item ID and Give Command
The item ID for Iron Hoe is minecraft:iron_hoe. In commands the namespace may be left off, so iron_hoe works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.
- Give yourself one
/give @p iron_hoe- Give several at once
/give @p iron_hoe 5- Give it to a named player
/give Steve iron_hoe 1
Cheats have to be on for Iron Hoe to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.
Repairing Iron Hoe
Those 250 uses are not the end of the road. Feed Iron Hoe back onto an anvil with Iron Ingot and it comes back up with its enchantments intact.
There is a cheaper way, and a catch. A grindstone merges two worn Iron Hoe items without costing levels, but it removes every enchantment while it does so.
The cheapest fix of all is Mending, which Iron Hoe accepts. Experience you collect goes into the tool rather than your level bar, and it keeps itself topped up.
Overview
The Iron Hoe has 250 durability. Good for medium-scale farming. Iron Hoe uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.
The iron hoe was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.21.2. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the iron hoe, so check the grid above rather than the video.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with iron ingot (smelt iron ore) and stick (craft from planks).
What A Stack Yields
Empty a stack of 64 iron ingots into this and 32 iron hoes come back. You supply 64 sticks to go with it. Craft 32 clears the box of iron ingots.
Which Material Lasts Longest
Durability of every material this item comes in, weakest first. Gold 32 Wood 59 Stone 131 Iron 250 Diamond 1561 Netherite 2031
How Long It Takes
- Blocks before it breaks
- 250 blocks
- Attack damage
- 1
- Attacks per second
- 3
- Enchantability
- 14
| Block | Iron Hoe | Bare hand | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hay Block | 0.15s | 0.75s | yes |
| Dried Kelp Block | 0.15s | 0.75s | yes |
| Target | 0.15s | 0.75s | yes |
| Moss Block | 0.05s | 0.15s | yes |
| Nether Wart Block | 0.25s | 1.5s | yes |
| Sculk | 0.05s | 0.3s | yes |
Everything on this list drops for a iron hoe, so the material buys speed and nothing else. Moss Block is the quickest of them at 0.05s, which is 3 times faster than doing it by hand.
Calculated from Minecraft Java 26.2’s own block hardness and tool speed values, without enchantments, Haste or Mining Fatigue. Bedrock Edition publishes no equivalent figures, so these are Java only.
Materials Needed
To make Iron Hoe you will gather 2x Iron Ingot (smelt iron ore) and 2x Stick (craft from planks), and craft them at a Crafting Table.
The Full Chain
Stick, then Iron Ingot, then the Iron Hoe. All in: 2 Iron Ore and 2 Planks.
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- 2
- 3
Iron Hoethis page
Gather this first
Step-by-Step Instructions
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2x Iron Ingot - 2
2x Stick - 3
Iron Hoe
Tips & Notes
- One craft costs 2x Iron Ingot and 2x Stick. Start with the Iron Ingot: smelt iron ore.
Uses for Iron Hoe
- Efficient farming tool
- Breaking leaves, hay bales and sculk blocks
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Iron Hoe on the Astroworld Items Database.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the item ID for Iron Hoe in Minecraft?
What is the give command for Iron Hoe?
Is the Iron Hoe recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
What version of Minecraft added the Iron Hoe?
Sources
- Grid, ingredients and yield
- 2 Iron Ingots and 2 Sticks in, 1 Iron Hoe out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
- That Bedrock agrees
- Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
- How far back it goes
- Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
- When the recipe last changed
- Every Java release since 1.13 was checked in order, 50 of them, and 1.21.2 is where this recipe last changed.
- Stack size, durability, enchantments
- The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
- Break times, damage and wear
- Hardness and tool speed, Java 26.2. Calculated, not timed.
- What it can mine
- Which blocks want this tool, and the tier they refuse below. Java 26.2.
- The recipe book unlock
- What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
- The stack sum
- Counted, not played: 1 Iron Hoe per craft against the stack size.
