Why put silk touch on a hoe?

You put Silk Touch on a Minecraft hoe primarily to collect special blocks like leaves, glowing lichen, or Sculk Sensors as they appear, rather than their usual drops (or nothing at all), saving effort compared to shears or gathering them differently, and allowing for decoration or unique farming setups like collecting whole melon blocks for farmer trades. It's great for getting decorative blocks, obtaining items that normally require specific tools (like glass or sea lanterns), or getting blocks like Nether Gold Ore in their original form.
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What's the point of silk touch on a shovel?

In Minecraft, a Silk Touch enchanted shovel allows you to mine and collect blocks in their original form, like grass blocks, mycelium, podzol, and ice, instead of their usual drops (dirt, clay balls). It's useful for collecting decorative blocks, preventing flint from dropping when mining gravel, and gathering materials for specific builds, though it's often less versatile than a Silk Touch pickaxe for things like ores. 
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Can a silk touch hoe break a sea lantern?

Breaking. A sea lantern can be obtained only when mined with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.
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What's the point of fortune on a hoe?

In Minecraft, applying the Fortune enchantment to a hoe increases the yield of certain crop drops, giving you more potatoes, carrots, beetroot, and wheat seeds from a single harvest; it's excellent for maximizing food and seed resources, especially for items like carrots, potatoes, and Nether wart, though for wheat/beetroot, it only boosts seeds, not the crop itself. 
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What is silk touch useful for?

Minecraft Wiki is useful for collecting blocks in their original form, like ores, glass, ice, and bookshelves, instead of their drops, allowing for decoration, easier transport (ore blocks take up less space than raw drops), and efficient building (getting stone directly instead of smelting cobblestone). It's crucial for obtaining specific items like Ender Chests and grass blocks and is often paired with a separate Fortune tool for maximum efficiency.
 
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Fortune vs Silk Touch: How to Choose Tool Enchantments

What does silk touch do on a hoe?

Silk Touch is an enchantment applied to tools that causes certain blocks to drop themselves instead of their normal drops.
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What is the purpose of a diamond hoe?

This hoe is designed to slice weeds just below the surface using a smooth push and pull action, making garden work faster and easier. 4 Razor-Sharp Forged Edges – The diamond-shaped head features four ultra-sharp edges, ideal for cutting in all directions.
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Does fortune on a hoe increase crop yield?

Yes, using a Fortune-enchanted hoe in Minecraft does give you more crops, specifically extra potatoes, carrots, beetroot, wheat seeds, and melon slices, by increasing the chance of extra drops when harvested; it functions similarly to how Fortune works on ores, but for certain farmable items, making your farms much more efficient. 
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Why would you put fortune on an axe?

You put Fortune on an axe in Minecraft to get more drops from certain blocks when harvesting with it, like extra apples, saplings, sticks from leaves, or more melon slices from melons, and even guaranteed flint from gravel (Fortune III), making resource gathering more efficient for farming or specific materials, even though it doesn't affect wood logs themselves. It's great for farming crops like potatoes and carrots for more seeds/produce, and it can even work on Nether Wart.
 
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Can a silk touch hoe pick up a bee hive?

Added bee nests, which require Silk Touch to be collected. Bees remain in bee nests and beehives mined with Silk Touch.
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What is the rarest enchantment in Minecraft?

The rarest enchantment in Minecraft is currently Wind Burst (Level 3) for the Mace, found exclusively in Ominous Vaults with a tiny chance via Ominous Trial Keys, making it harder to get than older "treasure" enchants like Mending or Soul Speed. While curses (Binding, Vanishing) and Soul Speed/Frost Walker are rare "treasure" enchants, Wind Burst's restricted source and low odds in the new 1.21 update make it the current top contender for rarity.
 
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Can I break a beehive with a silk touch shovel?

If a bee nest or beehive is broken using a tool not enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops nothing, and any bees inside emerge angry at the player. If a Silk Touch tool is used, the bee nest or beehive drops itself and any bees inside remain inside. The bees will not become angry when the block is placed.
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Is it worth putting fortune on a hoe?

Yes, applying the Fortune enchantment to a hoe in Minecraft is good, especially for getting more drops like seeds, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, and even apples/sticks from leaves, making farming more efficient and beneficial for getting extra food and resources. While some players debate if it's better than Silk Touch, Fortune significantly boosts crop yields and sapling/stick collection for tree farms, making it a popular choice for dedicated farming tools. 
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What generates the most XP in Minecraft?

The Ender Dragon gives the most XP (12,000) for a single kill, but for continuous farming, Enderman farms in The End, Blaze farms, or efficient Villager Trading halls (especially for emeralds) are top-tier methods for consistent, high-volume XP in Minecraft, alongside exploiting specific ores like Nether Quartz for mining XP. 
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What crop yields the most profit per acre?

The most profitable crops per acre include saffron (yielding up to $60,000/acre), exotic mushrooms, and medicinal herbs like ashwagandha and stevia. Profitability depends on climate, market, and the technology used for cultivation.
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Is it better to pull weeds or hoe them?

Surface Weed Control Options

(Hoeing is faster for weeds between rows.) Finger- and-thumb pulling of weeds is not appropriate if pulling out the weeds would disturb the crop roots. Once annual weeds reach that size, they are cut off at the soil line with a serrated knife instead.
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What is the best digging hoe for beginners?

Dutch hoe: This is the most common garden hoe and is often the easiest to use. Used standing upright, a Dutch hoe has a sharp, wide and open blade that skims just below the surface of the soil to sever weeds from their roots.
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What's the difference between a wooden hoe and a Diamond Hoe?

Due to the fact that all hoes have the same work output, prior to update 1.16, a wooden hoe had the same effect as the diamond hoe rendering the diamond hoe useless, other than that the diamond hoe has more durability.
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What does silk touch not go with?

In Minecraft, Silk Touch is incompatible with the Fortune enchantment on the same tool, as they have opposing functions (getting the block vs. getting more drops). It also can't go on swords or fishing rods, but can be combined with others like Efficiency, Unbreaking, and Mending on pickaxes, shovels, axes, and shears.
 
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