What is Stone Shovel in Minecraft?
A stone shovel is a simple and useful tool that you will craft very early in your Minecraft journey. It is made from just one piece of cobblestone and two sticks. Its main purpose is to help you dig soft blocks like dirt, sand, gravel, clay, and snow much faster than you could with your bare hands. This makes it incredibly useful for clearing out land to build your first house, gathering sand to make glass, or digging for gravel to find flint. It is a basic but essential tool that saves you a lot of time when you are just getting started.
How to get Stone Shovel in Minecraft
Crafting a stone shovel is extremely easy and cheap. You only need one piece of cobblestone and two sticks. You can get cobblestone by mining stone with a wooden pickaxe, and you can get sticks by crafting them from wood planks. Once you have your materials, open a crafting table. Place the single piece of cobblestone in the top middle slot. Then, place the two sticks in the center and bottom center slots directly below it, forming a straight line. This will give you one stone shovel. Because it is so easy to make, you can craft one whenever you need to do a lot of digging.
How to use Stone Shovel in Minecraft
The main way to use a stone shovel is to hold it and break soft blocks like dirt, grass, sand, gravel, and soul sand. It will break these blocks much faster than any other tool, which is great for landscaping or digging. A fun and useful trick is that you can right click on a grass block with a shovel to create a grass path block. This is a great way to make nice looking walkways around your base without needing any extra materials. A stone shovel is not a very good weapon, but it is better than using your fist if you have nothing else.
How to craft Stone Shovel in Minecraft
Crafting Table
What can Stone Shovel make in Minecraft
No items can be crafted.
Available Enchantments
Efficiency
Increases mining and digging speed
Fortune
Increases block drops from mining
Silk Touch
Mined blocks drop themselves instead of their usual drops
Unbreaking
Increases item durability
Mending
Repairs item using experience orbs
Curse of Vanishing
Item disappears when player dies
How to Enchant: Use an Enchanting Table, Anvil with Enchanted Books, or find enchanted items in loot chests. Higher levels require more experience and lapis lazuli.