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Best Hoe Enchantments: Minecraft (2025)

If you are new to Minecraft, you have probably noticed that the hoe is a versatile but often overlooked tool. While it is primarily designed for tilling dirt and preparing the ground for farming, the latest versions have expanded its usefulness for breaking blocks like leaves and certain organic structures.

Because the hoe now plays a larger role in gathering, especially with the introduction of new structures and resources, maximizing its potential with the right hoe enchantments is a must. Knowing which enchantments to prioritize will save you time, materials, and plenty of headaches when your hoe breaks unexpectedly.

This blog will guide beginners through everything you need to know about getting the best possible hoe for the 1.21 update. We will cover the essential enchantments and explain why your diamond hoes or netherite hoes are capable of more than just turning regular dirt into farmland.

Can You Even Enchant A Hoe In Minecraft?

Yes, you absolutely can enchant a hoe in Minecraft. Like other tools, such as pickaxes and axes, hoes are fully compatible with the enchanting table and can accept various enchanted books.

Historically, the hoe was seen as one of the least useful tools in the game, mainly because its unique function was to till soil, turning normal dirt or coarse dirt into farmland. This meant that hoes were rarely enchanted, as their durability did not matter much. However, recent updates have significantly expanded the hoe's usefulness, making it the appropriate tool for quickly breaking blocks like leaves, hay bales, and sponges. This added hoes to the priority list for many players. You can start small, as even iron hoes can be enchanted, and many players craft wooden hoes just to try out the enchanting process.

All Hoe Enchantments Listed

There are six hoe enchantments available in the Java Edition of Minecraft. The enchantments are the same as those found on many other tools, making it easy to transfer knowledge. You can find these enhancements on the enchanting table or within enchanted books acquired from chest loot, like ruined portal chests or from trading.

Efficiency

The Efficiency enchantment increases your mining speed when using the hoe to break blocks for which it is the appropriate tool. When you have a hoe with high Efficiency, blocks like leaves and hay bales will break quickly.

Unbreaking

Unbreaking increases your hoe's durability, meaning it will last longer before the hoe breaks. This is essential for tools made of weaker materials, like stone tools or gold tools. The maximum level is Unbreaking III.

Mending

The Mending enchantment uses Experience Points (XP) you collect to automatically repair your hoe's durability. This is the best way to keep your netherite hoes or one diamond hoe lasting forever.

Fortune

Fortune increases the amount of items dropped when you break a block that drops multiple items. On a hoe, Fortune is highly valuable when harvesting certain organic blocks, increasing the yield of items like seeds and saplings.

Silk Touch

Silk Touch causes a block to drop itself instead of its normal item drop. For example, you can use a hoe with Silk Touch to collect blocks like coarse dirt or snow layers in their actual block form. Silk Touch is mutually exclusive with Fortune.

Curse of Vanishing

This is a detrimental enchantment that causes your hoe to vanish upon death. It is usually found on a hoe that has been randomly enchanted in ruined portal chests or other loot sources.

Best Hoe Enchantments

When choosing the best hoe enchantments, most players prioritize durability and speed. The ultimate hoe will include Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, and Mending. Depending on what you are doing, you will also need a separate hoe for Fortune or Silk Touch.

Efficiency

Efficiency is the most important enchantment for speed, especially if you are using your hoe for collecting many blocks like leaves or hay bales.

At level III (or V if available), it greatly increases your mining speed. The hoe's attack speed is not affected by this, only how fast the targeted blocks are broken. In some cases, you can break a block instantly.

Unbreaking

The Unbreaking enchantment is critical because even your best tools will suffer from use.

Unbreaking III dramatically increases your hoe's durability, effectively giving it a much higher hoe's maximum durability. This enchantment is highly recommended for all your hoes, from **iron or diamond hoes to gold hoes.

Mending

Mending is what turns a good tool into a near-permanent one.

By automatically using XP to repair your hoe, you can avoid the need for a separate repair material like netherite or the same material. This is especially useful for expensive tools like netherite hoes or diamond hoes that you do not want to risk losing with a tool-breaking animation.

Fortune

The Fortune enchantment is essential if you are harvesting anything that drops seeds or saplings.

Since Fortune is mutually exclusive with Silk Touch, you will need a separate hoe for each. Fortune works great on your farming hoe and can significantly increase the yield from grass blocks.

How To Enchant A Hoe

You have two primary ways to apply hoe enchantments: using an enchanting table or combining the hoe with enchanted books on an Anvil.

The enchanting table is the simplest method and is ideal for getting your first set of enchants on iron and diamond hoes.

However, the enchants are random, and it is impossible to get Mending directly from the table. For beginners, selling stone hoes to villagers or breaking down wooden hoes is a good way to practice the enchanting process. For example, you could practice making diamond hoes and other tools just to try the enchanting table.

The Anvil is the most reliable way to achieve the ultimate hoe.

This is how you apply Mending and combine multiple enchantments onto the same hoe. You can also use the Anvil to combine two hoes of the same material (like iron and golden hoes) to repair them or to merge enchants.

Key facts about hoe materials:

  • Gold Tools (like gold hoes) have the highest enchantability but the lowest durability. Golden Hoes' durability is very low.

  • Netherite Tools (like netherite hoes) have the highest durability and do not burn in lava. They require one netherite ingot to upgrade.

  • Stone tools and wooden hoes are best used early game or for trading with villagers, where you can no longer trade iron hoes.

Conclusion

Maximizing your hoe's potential with the right hoe enchantments is crucial for efficient farming and resource gathering in Minecraft 2025. Your ultimate tool should feature Unbreaking III, Mending, and Efficiency V.

Since Fortune and Silk Touch are mutually exclusive, you should prepare two separate hoes: one for harvesting extra yield (Fortune) and one for collecting blocks in their original form (Silk Touch). Remember that materials matter: golden and netherite hoes are the top-tier choices for high-level enchanting and longevity. Use the Anvil to combine enchanted books and create a powerful tool that will last for years of Minecraft updates.