The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Tools Guide | Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe, Shears, Flint & Steel

Tools are definitely the most important items in Minecraft but they’re also quite complicated and using them correctly is vital so I’ll show you everything about them in this tool guide so there are seven different items that I’m going to be talking about today the shovel the pickaxe the flint and steel

The sword the ax the hoe as well as the shears technically as well as these items things like compasses and fishing rods are counted as tools however for the sake of covering this all in one video I’m going to just be talking about these items and of course with something

Like the sword it’ll only be the tool use of the sword not the combat use and so we’re gonna start with the pickaxe now of course to make a pickaxe as well as two sticks you need three items of whatever type you’re making it out of so

It’s good to remember for example that one diamond pickaxe is the same price as three Diamond shovels every single tool including of course the pickaxe comes in six varieties wooden stone gold iron turn diamond and netherrite and they more or less get better in that order if

You don’t feel like crafting all of your materials into a pickaxe well you can get them another way and that is by trading with the tool Smith villager you can buy stone tools for one Emerald you can then buy better and better things from the tool Smith upgrading to

Enchanted iron tools and these can have basically any enchantment on them at a low level now what makes these the best is that once you get to a certain level you can actually buy diamond tools from these and then once you get to the final level then you can buy diamond pickaxes

From it now what enchantments can be on the pickaxe well there are five different enchantments they are efficiency five there is also in Breaking three and mending now efficiency 5 basically makes you mine faster so for instance we can mine a lot faster here than we could without

Efficiency 5. if you look there you can see the durability on my tool and by the way if you want to know the durability on a tool so you can see right now there’s nothing but if we go F3 plus h then it Advanced tool tips are shown and

You can see that’s the exact amount of durability that we have every tool made out of the same material also has the same durability for instance this netherrite pickaxe shovel and docks they all have 231 total durability one of the big reasons why of course you want to

Get better and better pickaxes is because of the durability also what’s your favorite tool in Minecraft be sure to tell me in the comments below although pickaxes of course are the most useful tool certain ones like the hose or the shears can also have some great uses but back to Unbreaking what does

That have to do with the durability will a diamond pickaxe with Unbreaking one will last to about 3 000 uses or approximately double what it is without Unbreaking one then breaking one is of course a very low level enchantment so enchanting your diamond pickaxe once you

Get it even if you only have a couple books around your enchanting table can still be a good idea but generally it’s about twice its durability on Unbreaking one three times its durability on Breaking 2 and and four times its durability on Unbreaking 3 with Unbreaking three lasting about an

Average of six thousand times but a good question would be what does mending do well if we have our pickaxe equipped in either hand and we gain some XP from any method then basically what happens is when we get that XP it will heal our pickaxe so this literally gives your

Pickaxe’s infinite durability which is of course a massive deal but now we get on to mutually exclusive enchantments that means we can pick one or the other we’ll start with silk touch and then the other one we’ll look at is Fortune so what Fortune basically does is when

Mining literally any ore in the game it will give you more of that percentage more that it gives you does depend on what it is but for a lot of Horrors with fortune 3 it gives you about 2.2 times more material and this works on basically anything that has a random

Chance of giving you more of it so for instance when breaking leaves you have a higher chance of saplings or when breaking your crops you’ll get more of that crop but what does silk touch do instead of breaking an item even more effectively it preserves that item let’s

See if we break this mushroom we’ll get either nothing or we’ll get some small mushrooms from it but if we want the mushroom blocks or the mushroom stem we need something with silk touch and it works the same with ores let’s say you want to grab a diamond or an iron ore

And of course it’s perfect for things like coral reefs but a good question is what is the specific use of the pickaxe of course its specialty is breaking stone type blocks as you would assume that would be things like Stone tough deep slate and a sight diorite granite

And other similar materials but this does not just apply to the base Stone materials in the Overworld also Netherrack in the nether as well as End Stone in the end Black Stone in the nether also and basalt also something very important to note is that once you

Get to a certain braking speed you can do what’s known as insta mining or basically no matter where you look you can instantly mine a material but also it’s the best tool for miscellaneous sort of blocks so things like let’s say the concrete here and also things like

Purple blocks are the fastest with this or even something like an enchantment table where we really couldn’t tell which thing would be fastest with that normally basically every single player when they’re first starting out the game have to make one wooden pickaxe to get their first stone to then make a furnace

And other materials but as soon as you get your stone pickaxe that wooden pickaxe is basically useless however one last use you can have for it before you throw it out is to use it as furnace fuel you see any single wooden tool can be used as an effective furnace fuel but

Now onto the ax axes are made with the exact same number of materials as a pickaxe exact same recipe as the pickaxe too just one material is moved to this side or you can craft them on this side if you want and if you don’t want to

Craft it just like the pickaxe you can actually get the ax from two different villagers you can get them from the tool Smith at Stone iron or diamond levels for instance right here we can buy this efficiency Three diamond docks the weaponsmith villager can also sell you

Axes so they can sell iron axes that are unenchanted but once they’ve been leveled up enough they can also sell you enchanted diamond axes and you can always disenchant these in the grindstone and enchant them later because here are the enchantments that you want to have on the ax now the

Enchantments are the exact same as on the pickaxe except for there is one big difference now first of all of course efficiency 5 makes you mine things faster then there is Unbreaking 3 which increases the durability and there is mending which lets you repair that durability for an infinite tool and then

Of course you can decide between silk touch or Fortune now there’s actually very few blocks that either of these work on with the aux but I would say generally silk touch because then it allows you to mine the giant mushrooms with that but now the big difference

Comes with the fact that you can add a PVP enchantment to here so you can add sharpness 5 being of Earth or pods 5 or Smite 5. you can of course also add these at lower levels but I’m not going to go into exactly which one of these

You want to use in each scenario as it doesn’t affect their tool use whatsoever but if you do want to know what the perfect enchantments are on literally every single item in the game then I do have a guide on that and I’ll have an i

Card on the screen right now so you can learn more about your perfect tools and get yourself the best tool set there is because the ax is a weapon as well it can be a perfect thing to have as one of your first tools because it doubles with

Two uses but what can the ax break outside of just straight up logs and log based items well in a new Mangrove swamp it can also break this block which is known as The Mangrove roots and you’ll notice that with efficiency 5 on a diamond ax we can instantly Mine The

Roots on these mangrove trees but something you may also notice is that compared to the breaking speed of just punching with your fist the ax also can instantly mine these Vines that’s right axes are one of the best tools to use for breaking Vines also axes are the

Most efficient tool to break pumpkins and melons so if you ever find pumpkins or melons you certainly want that also although it’s not the most efficient tool for it you definitely can use the ax to break bamboo although of course there’s a lot of different things you

Can break with the ax another major use you can do with it is breaking mushroom blocks you can see this is definitely the fastest way to break mushroom blocks however unlike the pickaxe this ax has three special uses to it the first one is stripping logs this was added in 1.13

If you right click on a log you’ll remove the bark from it if we’re going through a jungle we can occasionally strip some of the logs to remind ourselves that we’ve been to a certain area but there’s two other right-click uses to the ax well the first one is you

Can right click on copper blocks to remove their oxidation so for instance right here we can make this go down every single level of the oxidation from the most oxidized copper all the way to the least the third use is if you’ve waxed your copper by right clicking on

It with wax then right clicking on that again with the ax will remove that wax if you want to unwax your waxed copper so that’s everything about the ax and mine craft onto the shovel shovels are certainly the cheapest tool in Minecraft the reason why is that they only take

One material outside of the sticks so right here we can make a shovel with one material and two sticks comparing this to let’s see the ax or the pickaxe that both use three pieces of material you could technically make three shovels for the same price as you could make one

Pickaxe and of course if you do not want to craft the shovel you can always get it from the toolsmith Villager as its second to top trade tier but now of course let’s take a look at the enchantments that are on the shovel so the enchantments on the shovel are the

Same as the other tools we’ve looked at first there’s efficiency five and this basically enables every single block that can be broken with the shovel could now be instantly broken then in Breaking three gives us that better durability mending lets this be an infinite tool by repairing its durability and finally

Fortune or silk touch well in my opinion there’s literally only one use to a 4G shovel so silk touch is almost always the better option as the main use of a silk touch shovel is getting yourself grass blocks but I did say that there is

One main use of the fortune 3 shovel and that is if you have a lot of villagers that will give you emeralds for Flint and you happen to like the emerald for Flint trade well then upon finding a Gravelly biome if you do have efficiency 5 on your shovel every single piece of

Gravel will drop Flint the shovel’s use is breaking any shovelable block and so that’s things like sand dirt pods or grass blocks something like Soul Sand in the nether also snow so you can for instance see right here we’re able to shovel the snow really quickly but I

Would also say there’s two great secret uses of the shovel the first one is that you can extinguish a campfire by right clicking on it with a shovel the other thing is is that a lot of players think the best tool for breaking glass is the pickaxe or the ax whereas in reality

There is actually no tool to break glass you can use the shovel just as efficiently as anything else but there’s one more more main tool and that is the hoe to craft the hoe you of course need two diamonds or whatever other material you’re making it out of and two sticks

You can also get an enchanted hose from Tool Smith’s interestingly enough you can never buy an enchanted Hoe from a toolsmith and what are the enchantments for the diamond hoe well believe it or not they’re the exact same enchantments as for every single other item that is a

Tool and so we’re going to start off with efficiency 5 so we can break things faster there’s also in Breaking three as well soak touch or fortune and of course mending no matter what I would generally suggest a silk touch hoe but Fortune hose can also be good if you’re doubling

Them up for your crops now the only real use of the hoe is to right click on the ground and till that dirt right something really great that Mojang has done recently is given the Hoe much more use and I’m going to go over the block

Breaking uses that the ho has well for starters one of the reasons why silk touch hoe can be great although Fortune is good also is that you can bring break leaves instantly with an efficiency hoe as you can see right here however because you can get fortune on this item

What’s awesome about that is that then with your fortune hoe you can quickly get rid of a massive amount of leaves and instantly Harvest tons of saplings so let’s say you go to a forest and you just want a bunch of saplings from it simply go there with your fortune hoe

But there’s even more uses of the hoe and they are in the nether in fact when mojing decided to add all these uses to the hoe was in the nether update and so basically whether you have fortune or silk touch it doesn’t matter you can instantly mine the nether blocks also

Known as the nether tree leaves and the shroom lights with that absolutely if you’re doing anything in the Crimson or warped Forest so who is a must so if you want to steal a lot of hay bales from villagers the hoe is the fastest tool to

Break the hay bales with also an amazing use of the hoe is it is the fastest thing to break the Moss as well as the Moss carpets out of and this is sort of a Cool Secret use that you can often find ores underneath the slate or

Underneath the Moss blocks so if you’re ever in one of these caves and you want to get some diamonds or other materials just break them all with your hoe and you can often find things hiding beneath but if you think that was enough uses for the hoe well there’s one more major

Use that just came out in 1.19 so those are the tool that you need to use to efficiently break skulk blocks as well as that the skulk sensors catalysts and shriekers are also all most efficiently mined with the hook things like smoke veins as well are also mined with

Thought and these are even perfect for getting rid of shriekers as you can more or less instantly mine them which can make getting rid of these pesky Warden makers to be fairly easy so certainly make sure to always have a hoe with you now those are all the main tools but I’m

Going to briefly go over three other items that can be used like a tool the first one is a sword now the sword is mainly for PVP it’s crafted out of two items and one stick so both the same price as a whole but it does have one

Less stick and more or less its big use is breaking bamboo the sword is a tool that no matter what material it’s made out of it’ll still be able to break bamboo instantly in terms of enchantments there is only two that are applicable to its tool uses that you can

Put on the sword the first one is Unbreaking three and the second one is mending so literally only things that increase the durability there are a couple other uses that the sword has it’s the fastest thing to break cobwebs with if you’re just trying to get string

From them lets you get stuck in one you can use that sword to navigate through them much better also although it’s not the most efficient tool for this either the sword does give you slight speed increases when breaking pumpkins melons cocoa beans hay bales leaves as well as jack-o-lanterns and Vines versus just

Breaking them with your fists so if you have nothing else to use you could certainly use the sword in that situation but now on to the actual best tool for half these things and that is shears so unlike everything else there’s only one type of sugars that you can

Make which as you saw right there are made out of two iron ingots now believe it or not you can actually enchant shears and there are three things that you can enchant them with and they are efficiency 5 as well as Unbreaking three and mending now the actual uses for

Shears are somewhat similar to the uses for the hoe and the sword so basically sures are the original best tool for breaking leaves you can notice you were instantly mining it but as well as that they’re all Breaking as Leaf items and these shears do not have silk touch on

Them shears are also the best tool to break cobwebs out of and because the cobwebs are not instantly mined the efficiency Enchantment on the shears does technically make that be more efficient also if you want you can have the strange glow lichen block by breaking it with shears you can also use

Shears to break and obtain grass and Tall Grass that’s really cool actually how sure is enable you to get a massive amount of different items without silk touch they would usually require it also if you’re doing a lot of builds with wool efficiency 5 shears can actually

Instantly mind wool making them the only tool in the game that can mine wool faster than just breaking it with your fist also the shears enable you to break nether plants and get them every time whereas normally with this kind of thing it’s a chance whether you’d have it or

Not see grass and Tall seagrass that it can instantly mine and also give you these silk touch versions of as well as a couple other more minor things it can also instantly break and then give you the dead Bush so if you want to collect

A bunch of dead bushes from maybe a Mesa biome or a desert biome you can do that with a pair of shears although trip wires are one of the least used items in the entire game if you are in a situation where you need to deactivate

Them the shears are the best tool to break the trip wires and on to the final Tool flint and steel so believe it or not flint and steel is crafted with well lint and steel not exactly steel of course but an iron ingot and this flint and steel item basically has the ability

To light things on fire now there’s actually two enchantments that you can put on flint and steel if you want there is Unbreaking three as well as mending now its use is more or less are of lighting Nether Portals as well as that you can relate campfires with flint and

Steel just like I’m doing here and you can also set things on fire by Lighting on fire something that can burn so basically anything that would burn in real life can also burn in Minecraft so maybe Forest also if you’re feeling destructive you can right click on TNT

To light a TNT before it explodes what’s something interesting that some people do not know is if your crouching or right clicking on that TNT you can actually have a lit TNT that does not go off in fact all you’re doing is simply putting a fire on there now you’ll

Notice that TNT’s now gone off and that’s because the fire is spread to it but initially that can just sit on top of there until the fire does eventually spread giving you a bit more of a timed TNT reaction as you can see but there’s a couple other interesting uses to the

Flint and steel also the first one is the fact that you can force a creeper to detonate by right clicking on it with the flint and steel but as well as that you can actually light candles and cakes with this but as well as that you can

Make candle cakes like this sort of like a birthday cake really then we can right click on the top of them to light those as well if you want anyway that’s everything you need to know about all the tools in Minecraft I hope you enjoyed this video and have a good day goodbye