What to know
- You must first craft and place a standard Workbench and then a Farmer’s Workbench before you can craft a hoe.
- A standard Workbench requires four tree trunks and three stones.
- This intermediate station requires six tree trunks and 20 pieces of plant fiber.
- Once you have access to the Farmer’s Workbench, a hoe costs two tree trunks and one stone
Farming is a core mechanic in Hytale, and the hoe is the essential tool needed to prepare your soil for planting. Unlike basic tools that can be made in your pocket, crafting a hoe requires a specialized setup involving multiple crafting stations.
How to Craft a Hoe in Hytale
The process of crafting a hoe begins with setting up your infrastructure.
Craft a standard Workbench
First, open your pocket crafting menu with the Tab key and create a standard Workbench using four tree trunks and three stones.
After placing the workbench, interact with it by pressing F to open the advanced menu.
Craft a Farmer’s Workbench
From the standard Workbench menu, you must craft a Farmer’s Workbench, which requires six tree trunks and 20 pieces of plant fiber.
Craft a Crude Hoe
Once the Farmer’s Workbench is placed, interact with it to access the farming tool section.
Locate the hoe recipe, which requires:
- Any Tree Trunk: x2
- Any Stone: x1
Click craft to finish the tool.
By progressing through the necessary crafting stations, you can easily obtain a hoe to start your agricultural journey in Hytale.
All Hoes and Their New Unlock Tiers in Hytale Update 2
Hytale Update 2 reworks how farming tools progress by adjusting both recipe costs and unlock tiers for Hoes at the Farming Bench. Instead of unlocking very late, Hoes are now spread more logically across early-to-mid progression, making farming viable much sooner in a playthrough.
Here’s how the Hoe tiers are now structured:
- Basic Hoe (Starter) – Available early for initial soil tilling before metal tools
- Copper Hoe — Tier 2 (previously Tier 4)
- Iron Hoe — Tier 4 (previously Tier 8)
- Thorium Hoe — Tier 6 (new addition)
These changes mean players no longer need to reach late-game metal progression just to improve their farming efficiency. Copper tools now arrive early enough to support proper crop setups, Iron becomes a solid mid-game upgrade, and Thorium introduces a higher-tier farming option for advanced setups.
Combined with the longer soil lifetime and Eternal Crop improvements introduced in the same update, these tier adjustments make farming smoother, faster, and far more accessible throughout the game.
