How to Craft Wooden Shovel in Minecraft
On a Crafting Table, 1 Planks and 2 Sticks turns into a Wooden Shovel. Laid out, that is a single Planks in the top-middle cell and two Sticks stacked in the middle column. Expect 1 Wooden Shovel from every craft. It holds up for 59 uses before it breaks.
Wooden Shovel Item ID and Give Command
The item ID for Wooden Shovel is minecraft:wooden_shovel. In commands the namespace may be left off, so wooden_shovel works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.
- Give yourself one
/give @p wooden_shovel- Give several at once
/give @p wooden_shovel 5- Give it to a named player
/give Steve wooden_shovel 1
Cheats have to be on for Wooden Shovel to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.
Repairing Wooden Shovel
An anvil and Planks will restore Wooden Shovel long before its 59 uses run out, and nothing enchanted on it is lost in the process.
There is a cheaper way, and a catch. A grindstone merges two worn Wooden Shovel items without costing levels, but it removes every enchantment while it does so.
Mending can go on Wooden Shovel, and that is the only repair that costs nothing at all: the experience you pick up flows into the item instead of into your own level, so it never sees an anvil again.
Overview
The Wooden Shovel is the basic digging tool with 59 durability. Right-click grass blocks to create dirt paths. Wooden Shovel uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.
The wooden shovel 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 shovel, 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).
Counting The Stack
One stack is 32 goes at 2 sticks each, which totals 32 wooden shovels. On top of that: 32 planks. Craft 32 empties the box exactly.
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
- 2.5
- Attacks per second
- 1
- Enchantability
- 15
| Block | Wooden Shovel | Bare hand | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dirt | 0.4s | 0.75s | yes |
| Grass Block | 0.45s | 0.9s | yes |
| Sand | 0.4s | 0.75s | yes |
| Gravel | 0.45s | 0.9s | yes |
| Clay | 0.45s | 0.9s | yes |
| Soul Sand | 0.4s | 0.75s | yes |
Everything on this list drops for a wooden shovel, so the material buys speed and nothing else. Dirt is the quickest of them at 0.4s, which is 1.9 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
For Wooden Shovel: Planks (craft from logs) and 2x Stick (craft from planks), brought to a Crafting Table.
The Full Chain
2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 3 Planks.
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Step-by-Step Instructions
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Planks
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2x Stick - 3
Wooden Shovel
Tips & Notes
- Line up 1x Planks and 2x Stick before you open the Crafting Table. Planks: craft from logs.
Uses for Wooden Shovel
- Digging dirt, sand, gravel and snow
- Creating paths
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Wooden Shovel on the Astroworld Items Database.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the item ID for Wooden Shovel in Minecraft?
What is the give command for Wooden Shovel?
What version of Minecraft added the Wooden Shovel?
Sources
- Grid, ingredients and yield
- 1 Planks and 2 Sticks in, 1 Wooden Shovel 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 Shovel per craft against the stack size.
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