Shovel
| Type | Tools |
| Durability | Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Gold: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses |
| Stackable | No |
| Data values | Wooden dec: 269 hex: 10D Stone dec: 273 hex: 111 Iron dec: 256 hex: 100 Gold dec: 284 hex: 11C Diamond dec: 277 hex: 115 |
Shovels are auxiliary tools used to ease the process of collecting dirt, sand, gravel, clay and snow. Shovels are only necessary to collect snowballs from snow; all other blocks for which shovels are useful can be successfully harvested by hand.
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[edit] Uses
A shovel is used to dig some materials faster. A shovel is not required to advance forward in the game, it only makes the removal and collection of some materials faster.
[edit] Materials that shovels dig more efficiently
[edit] Crafting
Shovels are crafted using 2 sticks and 1 unit of a tool material:
| Ingredients | Input » Output | Description | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sticks + Wood or Cobblestone or Iron Ingots or Gold Ingots or Diamond Gems |
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Used to dig Dirt, Grass, Sand, Gravel, Soul Sand, Mycelium, Clay and Snow faster than by hand. Shovels are required to dig snowballs. |
[edit] Speed and Durability
The following table summarizes the speed at which different quality shovels perform on different block types. Values marked with (*) and highlighted in red indicate that no resource will be dropped when the block is destroyed without a shovel. Green cells indicate the fastest tool type.
| Shovels | Nothing | Wood | Stone | Iron | Diamond | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durability | ∞ | 60 | 132 | 251 | 1562 | 33 |
| Clay | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Grass | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Mycelium | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Gravel | 0.9 secs | 0.45 secs | 0.25 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Dirt | 0.75 secs | 0.4 secs | 0.2 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Sand | 0.75 secs | 0.4 secs | 0.2 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Soul Sand | 0.75 secs | 0.4 secs | 0.2 secs | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.1 secs |
| Snow Block | 1 sec* | 0.15 secs | 0.1 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs |
| Snow | 0.5 secs* | 0.1 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs | 0.05 secs |
