How to Craft Wooden Hoe in Minecraft
On a Crafting Table, 2 Planks and 2 Sticks turns into a Wooden Hoe. Its pattern is two Planks side by side in the top row and two Sticks stacked in the middle column. Each attempt hands back 1 Wooden Hoe. Durability is 59, and that is how many uses one gets you.
Wooden Hoe Item ID and Give Command
The item ID for Wooden Hoe is minecraft:wooden_hoe. In commands the namespace may be left off, so wooden_hoe works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.
- Give yourself one
/give @p wooden_hoe- Give several at once
/give @p wooden_hoe 5- Give it to a named player
/give Steve wooden_hoe 1
Cheats have to be on for Wooden Hoe to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.
Repairing Wooden Hoe
Those 59 uses are not the end of the road. Feed Wooden Hoe back onto an anvil with Planks and it comes back up with its enchantments intact.
Two worn ones can also be merged on a grindstone. That is the cheaper route and it asks no levels, but it strips every enchantment off, so it suits a plain Wooden Hoe rather than one you have invested in.
Wooden Hoe takes Mending, and once it does you can stop thinking about repairs: every orb you pick up goes into the item.
Overview
The Wooden Hoe tills dirt and grass blocks into farmland for planting crops. It has 59 durability. Wooden Hoe uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.
The wooden 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 wooden hoe, so check the grid above rather than the video.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with planks (craft from logs) and stick (craft from planks).
What A Stack Yields
Empty a stack of 64 planks into this and 32 wooden hoes come back. Bring 64 sticks along for the ride. Craft 32 clears the box of planks.
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
- 59 blocks
- Attack damage
- 1
- Attacks per second
- 1
- Enchantability
- 15
| Block | Wooden Hoe | Bare hand | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hay Block | 0.4s | 0.75s | yes |
| Dried Kelp Block | 0.4s | 0.75s | yes |
| Target | 0.4s | 0.75s | yes |
| Moss Block | 0.1s | 0.15s | yes |
| Nether Wart Block | 0.75s | 1.5s | yes |
| Sculk | 0.15s | 0.3s | yes |
Everything on this list drops for a wooden hoe, so the material buys speed and nothing else. Moss Block is the quickest of them at 0.1s, which is 1.5 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 Wooden Hoe you will gather 2x Planks (craft from logs) and 2x Stick (craft from planks), and craft them at a Crafting Table.
The Full Chain
2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 4 Planks.
- 1
- 2
Wooden Hoethis page
Gather this first
Step-by-Step Instructions
- 1
2x Planks
- 2
2x Stick - 3
Wooden Hoe
Tips & Notes
- Line up 2x Planks and 2x Stick before you open the Crafting Table. Planks: craft from logs.
Uses for Wooden Hoe
- Tilling dirt into farmland
- Breaking leaves and hay bales quickly
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Wooden Hoe on the Astroworld Items Database.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do I need to craft a Wooden Hoe in Minecraft?
Where do you find the materials for a Wooden Hoe?
How many Wooden Hoes do you get from one craft?
What is the item ID for Wooden Hoe in Minecraft?
What is the give command for Wooden Hoe?
Is the Wooden Hoe recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
What version of Minecraft added the Wooden Hoe?
Sources
- Grid, ingredients and yield
- 2 Planks and 2 Sticks in, 1 Wooden 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
- Walked forward through 50 Java releases from 1.13 onwards; 1.21.2 is the last one that altered it.
- Stack size, durability, enchantments, burn time
- 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 Wooden Hoe per craft against the stack size.
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