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Iron Shovel
Rarity tier
 
Common
Mining efficiency 6
Attack damage JE: 4.5HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 2.25

BE: 4HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
Attack speedβ€Œ[JE only] 1 (1 second)
Attack range 3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin 0
Durability JE: 250
BE: 251
Enchantability 14
Renewable Yes
Stackable No
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An iron shovel is a variant of shovel that is crafted from iron ingots. It is used to break dirt, sand, gravel and other related blocks faster, to create dirt paths from dirt-related blocks, and to extinguish campfires. It is the third-highest tier of shovel, having higher mining efficiency, attack damage, durability, and enchantability than a copper shovel.

Obtaining

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Crafting

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Ingredients Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot +
Stick

Generated loot

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Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
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Village
Toolsmith's chest 1 41.2%
{ "item": "Iron Shovel", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.4118208436710489, "structure": "Village", "container": "Toolsmith's chest" }
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[A]
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End City
Chest 1 12.7%
{ "item": "Enchanted Iron Shovel", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
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Village
Toolsmith's chest 1 41.2%
{ "item": "Iron Shovel", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.4118208436710489, "structure": "Village", "container": "Toolsmith's chest" }
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[A]
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End City
Chest 1 12.7%
{ "item": "Enchanted Iron Shovel", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.12714065479531, "structure": "End City", "container": "Chest" }
  1. ↑ a b Enchantment probabilities are the same as a level-20 to level-39 enchantment would be on an enchanting table that had no cap at level 30, and that was able to apply treasure enchantments (except Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, and Wind Burst), and where the chance of multiple enchantments is not reduced.

Mob loot

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Equipment

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Zombies, husks and zombie villagersβ€Œ[Java Edition only] have a 0.67% (3.33% in Hard difficulty) chance of spawning with an iron shovel. They have an 8.5% (9.5% with Looting I, 10.5% with Looting II and 11.5% with Looting III) chance of dropping that shovel if they are killed by the player. The dropped shovel is usually badly damaged, and may be enchanted: 0%–25% on Normal difficulty and 3.125%–25% on Hard difficulty, varying with regional difficulty, and enchanted as if on an enchanting table at level 5–22.

Raids

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Vindicators and pillagers that spawn from raids have a 4.1% chance (5.12% on Hard) to drop a badly-damaged iron shovel that is sometimes enchanted with a random enchantment.β€Œ[Bedrock Edition only]

Trading

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VillagerProbabilityVillager wantsPlayer receivesTrades in
stock
Villager
experience
Price
multiplier
JEBE
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Toolsmith
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Journeyman
40%25%7–21 Γ— πŸ‘ Image
Emerald
[t 1]
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Enchanted Iron Shovel[t 2]
3100.2
  1. ↑ The price of this trade is the base price, 2 emeralds, plus the random base enchantment level chosen (5–19).
  2. ↑ When creating an enchantment offer, the game uses a random enchantment level from 5 to 19 as the base enchantment level (see Enchanting table mechanics). The enchantments are never treasure enchantments.

Usage

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Digging

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An iron shovel can be used to break dirt and soil-type materials faster. When breaking a block, it uses 1 durability. For blocks that break instantly, it uses 0 durability.

Mining snow

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An iron shovel can be used to break snow blocks or snow to obtain snow balls without Silk Touch.

Dirt paths

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An iron shovel can be used to create a dirt path by using (not digging) the shovel on any one of the following blocks, losing one durability point:

Campfire

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An iron shovel can be used to extinguish a campfire.

Weapon

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Iron shovels use 2 durability when used as a weapon.

Iron shovels have an attack speed modifier of -3, meaning they take 1 second to recover. Iron shovels deal 4.5HPπŸ‘ ❀️
Γ— 2.25
damage.

Iron shovels always attack instantly and do 4HPπŸ‘ ❀️
πŸ‘ ❀️
damage.

Repairing

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Combining

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Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Damaged Iron Shovel The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.
Ingredients Grinding recipe Description
2Γ— Damaged Iron Shovel The durability of the two shovels is added together, plus an extra 5% of durability.

Unit repair

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Ingredients Anvil recipe
Damaged  +
Iron Ingot

An iron shovel can be repaired in an anvil by adding iron ingots, with each ingot restoring 62 durability points (25% of maximum durability). Two iron shovels can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the shovel's enchantments.

Enchantments

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An iron shovel can receive the following enchantments:

Name Description Max Level Method Weight
Efficiency Increases the mining speed. V πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

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Anvil
10
Fortune[note 1] Increases the amount of drops when mining. III πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

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Anvil
2
Silk Touch[note 1] Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined. I πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
1
Unbreaking Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. III πŸ‘ Image
Enchanting Table

πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
5
Mending Repairs the shovel when obtaining experience. I πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
2
Curse of Vanishing The shovel vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. I πŸ‘ Image
Anvil
1
  1. ↑ a b Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive

Smelting ingredient

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Name Ingredients Smelting recipe
Iron Nugget  +
Any fuel
πŸ‘ Invicon Iron Shovel.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Shovel in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Iron Shovel When in Main Hand:  4.5 Attack Damage  1 Attack Speed

πŸ‘ Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal
πŸ‘ Invicon Charcoal.png: Inventory sprite for Charcoal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Charcoal with description: Charcoal
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Log.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Log in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Log with description: Log
πŸ‘ Invicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Overworld Planks
πŸ‘ Invicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava Bucket
πŸ‘ Invicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Block of Coal with description: Block of Coal

πŸ‘ Invicon Iron Nugget.png: Inventory sprite for Iron Nugget in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Iron Nugget with description: Iron Nugget
0.1

Sounds

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Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Shovel flattensBlocksWhen a shovel creates a dirt pathitem.shovel.flattensubtitles.item.shovel.flatten​1.01.016
​Item breaksPlayersWhen a shovel's durability is exhaustedentity.item.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break​0.80.8–1.216

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​Shovel flattensBlocksWhen a shovel creates a dirt pathuse.grasssubtitles.item.shovel.flatten​1.00.8
​Item breaksPlayersWhen a shovel's durability is exhaustedrandom.breaksubtitles.entity.item.break​1.00.9

Data values

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Java Edition:

NameIdentifierForm Translation key
πŸ‘ ItemSprite iron-shovel.png: Sprite image for iron-shovel in Minecraft
Iron Shovel
iron_shovelItem item.minecraft.iron_shovel

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Form Translation key
πŸ‘ ItemSprite iron-shovel.png: Sprite image for iron-shovel in Minecraft
Iron Shovel
iron_shovel309Item item.iron_shovel.name

Achievements

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IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
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MOAR ToolsConstruct one type of each tool.Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.15Bronze

Videos

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History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition Indev
0.3120091231-2147πŸ‘ Image
Added shovels. At this point, iron shovels are the only tier of shovel in the game. Shovels are located in the player's inventory.
Shovels cannot be crafted yet and are not functional in this version.
20100110Shovels are now functional and can now be used to gather materials like dirt, sand and gravel 400% faster than by hand.
20100124-2119A complete tool set is no longer given to the player on starting a new world. Instead, there are multiple chests in the later called "Indev House" containing a stack of most accessible blocks/items including tools.
20100128-2200Shovels now have tiers. The existing shovels are now known as iron shovels.
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The texture of iron shovels has been changed.
A shovel held by the player is now rendered to appear more 3D.
20100129-1447Iron shovels can now be crafted.
20100201-0025Iron shovels now have a durability of 129.
Java Edition Alpha
1.0.5_01Iron shovels are now used to get snowballs out of snow layers.
Java Edition Beta
1.2Iron shovels' durability has been increased from 129 to 251.
April 9, 2011πŸ‘ Image
Alternate iron shovel texture was shown in Mojang test video.
Java Edition
1.3.112w21aBlacksmith villagers now sell iron shovels for 4–5 emeralds.
1.6.113w21aInstead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
), iron shovels now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
more damage than before.
1.814w02aTool smith villagers now sell enchanted iron shovels for 5–7 emeralds.
Unenchanted iron shovels are no longer sold by villagers.
1.915w31aAn iron shovel can now be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks.
Enchanted iron shovels can now be found in end city chests.
15w34aShovels now use the "attack strength" combat mechanic meter. The time it takes for the meter to fill up for a shovel is 0.8 seconds.
15w34cIron shovels now do more damage and take longer to recover.
15w35aThe damage of iron shovels has been reduced.
15w50aThe sound item.shovel.flatten has been added to iron shovels.
1.11.116w50aIron shovels now smelt down into one iron nugget.
1.13.118w30bThe durability of iron shovels has been reduced from 251 to 250 due to the fixing of a bug.[1]
1.1418w43aπŸ‘ Image
The textures of iron shovels have been changed.
18w50aIron shovels can now be found in chests in village toolsmith houses.
1.1519w37aIron shovels can now be used to extinguish campfires.
1.1620w09aIron shovels now break soul soil quickly.
1.2023w14aIron shovels now break suspicious sand and suspicious gravel quickly.
Java Edition Combat Tests
1.14.3The attack speed for all shovels has been increased to 2.
The damage for iron shovels has been decreased by 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0πŸ‘ Image
Added iron shovels. They actually function as tools despite being unobtainable by normal means.
v0.3.2Iron shovels can now be crafted with iron ingots and sticks.
v0.11.0build 1Iron shovels are now available in the creative inventory.
An iron shovel can now be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks.
build 12Iron shovels have been removed from creative.
build 13Iron shovels have been re-added to creative mode.
v0.12.1build 1Iron shovels can now be enchanted.
Zombies now have a small chance to spawn holding an iron shovel.
v0.15.0build 1Added husks, which have a small chance to spawn holding an iron shovel.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Enchanted iron shovels can now be found inside end city chests.
1.0.4alpha 1.0.4.0Enchanted iron shovels are now sold by toolsmith villagers for 4-5 emeralds.
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Iron shovels are now smeltable.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3πŸ‘ Image
The textures of iron shovels have been changed.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Iron shovels can now be found in village toolsmith houses.
beta 1.11.0.4Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop iron shovels upon death.
Toolsmith villagers now have a 25% chance to sell enchanted iron shovels for 2 emeralds as part of their third tier trades.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1πŸ‘ Image
Added iron shovels.
TU141.04Blacksmith villagers now sell iron shovels for 4–5 emeralds.
TU19CU71.121.121.12Instead of replacing the barehanded damage (1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
), iron shovels now add their damage onto the barehanded damage, which results in them doing 1HPπŸ‘ πŸ’”
more damage than before.
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 3Tool smith villagers now sell enchanted iron shovels for 5–7 emeralds.
Unenchanted iron shovels are no longer sold by villagers.
TU36CU251.281.281.28Patch 7The attack damage of iron shovels is now shown above the hotbar when switching to it if the item has less than 3 enchantments.
TU43CU331.361.361.36Patch 13An iron shovel can now be used on a grass block to create grass path blocks.
TU46CU361.381.381.38Patch 15Enchanted iron shovels can now be found in end city chests.
TU53CU431.491.501.49Patch 231.0.3Iron shovels are now smeltable.
1.90 πŸ‘ Image
The textures of iron shovels have been changed.
1.91Vindicators and pillagers that spawn in raids can now drop iron shovels upon death.
Iron shovels can now be used to extinguish campfires.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0πŸ‘ Image
Added iron shovels.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, iron shovel's numeral ID was 256.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Iron Shovel" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

References

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  1. ↑ MC-120664 β€“ Tool durability is off by one β€“ resolved as "Fixed".

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