Copper Hoe

Copper Hoe

Rarity tier	Common
Mining efficiency	5
Attack damage	JE: 1HP BE: 4HP
Attack speed‌[JE only]	2 (0.5 seconds)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Durability	JE: 190 BE: 191
Enchantability	13
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A copper hoe is a variant of hoe that is crafted from copper ingots. It is used to till dirt-related blocks into farmland, and to break leaves, haybales, and sculk-related blocks faster. It is the fourth-highest tier of hoe, having higher mining efficiency, durability, and enchantability than a stone hoe.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Copper Ingot + Stick

Usage

Harvesting

A copper hoe can be used to harvest various plant blocks, Nether fungi, and sculk blocks more quickly. Breaking one of these blocks takes 1 durability.

Breaking any other block takes 0 durability if the block breaks instantly when broken by hand, or 1 otherwise.

Tilling

A copper hoe can be used to turn dirt, grass blocks, and dirt paths into farmland. To till, press use on a grass or dirt block while holding a hoe. This does not work on mycelium or podzol, nor does it work if there are other blocks on top of the targeted blocks, including snow layers or torches. However, mycelium and podzol can be first converted to dirt paths with a shovel, then tilled into farmland with a hoe.

A copper hoe can be used to convert coarse dirt into regular dirt by pressing use on the coarse dirt. Similar to tilling dirt, the space above the coarse dirt must be empty for it to be tilled.

A copper hoe can also be used on rooted dirt, which turns it into normal dirt, and yields a hanging roots item.

Tilling is effectively instantaneous, regardless of material, and uses 1 durability. Breaking blocks with a copper hoe uses 0 or 1 durability, depending on the block.

A copper hoe is unable to work on blocks with a plant on top, even if that plant could normally be placed on top of farmland without reverting it to dirt.

Weapon

Bedrock Edition

A copper hoe always attacks instantly.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Damaged Copper Hoe		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
2x Damaged Copper Hoe		The durability of the two hoes is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Copper Hoe + Copper Ingot	Copper Hoe

A copper hoe can be repaired in an anvil by adding copper ingots, with each ingot restoring 47 durability (25% of its maximum durability, rounded down). Two copper hoes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the copper hoe's enchantments.

Enchantments

A copper hoe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting Table or Anvil	10
Fortune	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table or Anvil	2
Silk Touch	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table or Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table or Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the hoe when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The hoe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Copper Nugget	Copper Hoe + Any fuel

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Hoe tills	Blocks	When a block is tilled into farmland	item.hoe.till	subtitles.item.hoe.till​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Item breaks	Players	When a hoe's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8–1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Hoe tills	Blocks	When a block is tilled into farmland	use.gravel	subtitles.item.hoe.till​	1.0	0.8
	​Item breaks	Players	When a hoe's durability is exhausted	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Copper Hoe	copper_hoe	Item	item.minecraft.copper_hoe

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Copper Hoe	copper_hoe	773	Item	item.copper_hoe.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool.	Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.	15	Bronze

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.9			25w31a				Added copper hoe.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.100 Experiment Drop 3 2025			Preview 1.21.100.23				Added copper hoe.

Issues

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