Shovels

• Create a shovel by placing two sticks and another block within three vertically adjacent spaces in a crafting bench, with two sticks on the bottom and the other block on top. The last block can be a wood plank, stone block, iron ingot, gold ingot or diamond. A shovel will increase your digging speed when you are digging through sand, clay, grass, gravel, dirt and snow. Digging through snow with a shovel will allow you to collect snowballs, while doing so by hand will remove the snow, but yield no items.