Minecraft Shovel Name Generator

Funny anvil names for the least loved tool

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Generate Minecraft shovel names to type into the anvil: puns like Scoop Dreams and Spade Runner, block jokes like Dirt Cheap and Snow Day, flint gambles like Gravel Gambler, self-mocking names like Third Favorite Tool and epics such as Worldshaper.

About Minecraft shovel names

The shovel is the tool most players craft third and enchant last. It digs dirt, sand, gravel, clay, snow, soul sand and mud far faster than a bare hand, turns grass and dirt into path blocks when you use it on them, and puts out a campfire. That is the whole job, which is why so many players rename theirs as a joke: a tool with no glory is a fine place for a pun.

Renaming happens at an anvil and costs experience levels. Most of this list is funny. There are dig, scoop and spade puns (Scoop Dreams, Spade Runner), block jokes (Dirt Cheap, Snow Day, Clear as Mud), flint gambles for the one-in-ten drop from gravel (Gravel Gambler, Still No Flint), path and landscaping names (Path of Least Resistance, Lawn and Order) and enchantment wordplay such as Touch Grass for a Silk Touch shovel.

Mega-builders get terraforming names (Used to Be a Mountain, Are We Flat Yet), every material from wood to netherite has its jokes (Netherite for Dirt), and the tool mocks itself in names like Third Favorite Tool. A serious share in the manner of Worldshaper and Earthrender is there for the shovel that really did move a hill. All are ideas for your own anvil, not item names from the game.

How to choose Minecraft shovel names

Name it for the job. A sand shovel for a desert build can be Beach Thief, a gravel one Gravel Gambler, and the one in your building kit Path of Least Resistance.
Let the enchantment pick the joke. Silk Touch is what lets a shovel pick up grass blocks, so Touch Grass fits it, and Fortune raises the chance of flint from gravel, which is what Always Flint and Fortune Favors the Flint are about.
Rename early. The anvil charges more for a tool that has been worked on it several times, so add the name in the same job as an enchanted book when you can.
Keep it short enough to read above the hotbar. The anvil's text box has a character limit, and one to four words is plenty for a joke.
On a shared server a label is a fair name. Hands Off My Shovel and Shared Shovel Please Return do real work in a community chest.

Frequently asked questions

What are funny names for a shovel in Minecraft?

Puns on digging are the classic choice: Scoop Dreams, Spade Runner, Dig Deal and Shovelry Is Not Dead are all in this list. Block jokes such as Dirt Cheap and Snow Problem work too, and so do names that mock the tool itself, like Third Favorite Tool or Should Have Been a Pickaxe.

How do I rename a shovel in Minecraft?

Place the shovel in the left slot of an anvil, type the new name in the text box and take the shovel from the output slot. It costs experience levels, and the price goes up with the number of times the tool has been through an anvil before.

What does a shovel do in Minecraft?

It digs soft blocks quickly: dirt, sand, gravel, clay, snow, soul sand and mud among them. Used on grass or dirt it makes a path block, and used on a lit campfire it puts the fire out. It is not the tool for archaeology: suspicious sand and gravel need a brush, and a shovel just breaks them.

What enchantments can a shovel have?

Efficiency, Unbreaking, Mending and either Silk Touch or Fortune, plus Curse of Vanishing. Fortune on a shovel raises the odds of flint from gravel, and Silk Touch lets it collect grass blocks, snow blocks and whole clay blocks. Names such as Efficiency Five Alive, Touch Grass and Mending Fences are written for those builds.

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All 500 Minecraft shovel names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 15 names

A Shovel's Best Friend
Against the Odds
Age of Shovelry
Alex's Least Favorite
All That Glints
All Work No Glory
All You Need Is Shovel
Almost Level
Always Flint
Ancient Debris for This
Anvil Says No
Are We Flat Yet
Arena Floor Remover
Arrow Maker's Friend
Arrowhead

B: 26 names

B-Team Captain
Backhoe
Backup Dancer
Bane of Beaches
Barrowkeeper
Basement Maker
Beach Be Gone
Beach Bum
Beach Flattener
Beach Thief
Beaten Path
Bedtime for Campfires
Best Supporting Tool
Biome Remodel
Black Tie Spade
Blink and It's Gone
Bookshelf Approved
Borrowed Not Returned
Bottom of the Chest
Breaking Ground
Breaks Anyway
Brick Maker's Friend
Buried Treasure Hunter
Burn After Digging
Burrowking
Butter Shovel

C: 32 names

Call a Spade a Spade
Camp Closer
Camp Counselor
Campfire Curfew
Campfire Snuffer
Canal Digger
Career Path
Cave Ceiling Surprise
Chest Filler
Chunk by Chunk
Chunk Eraser
Chunk Nine Nine
City Planner
Civil Engineer
Clay Day
Claycutter
Clear as Mud
Cliff Shaver
Clodcrusher
Coarse Language
Coastline Editor
Cobble Wobble
Cobblestone Classic
Common Ground
Continental Drift
Cost a Fortune
Cross My Path
Curb Appeal
Curb Your Dirt
Curse of Vanishing Point
Curses Foiled Again
Custom Spade

D: 27 names

Desert Deleter
Detour
Diamonds Are for Digging
Dig Bang Theory
Dig Deal
Dig Here
Dig Shot
Dirt Alert
Dirt Baron
Dirt Cheap
Dirt Duty
Dirt Hut Deluxe
Dirt Whisperer
Dirtbender
Dish the Dirt
Do Not Bring to PvP
Doom of Dunes
Double Chest of Dirt
Double or Nothing
Double Scoop
Down to Earth
Drifthewer
Driveway Duty
Dump Truck
Dune Buggy
Duneshifter
Durability Bar Blues

E: 14 names

Earthrender
Earthwake
Earthworm Express
Eater of Hills
Edge of the World
Efficiency Apartment
Efficiency Five Alive
Efficient Enough
Eight Layers
Elytra Runway
Embers Out
Erosion
Excavation Station
Extreme Makeover

F: 43 names

Faith Moves Mountains
Fame and Fortune
Faster Than Falling Sand
Faster Than Fists
Fault Line
Feat of Clay
Feed Me Orbs
Feeling Lucky
Fifteen Sixteenths
Fifty-Nine Uses
Fine Grading
Fireproof and Pointless
First Night Scoop
Flat Earth Society
Fletcher's Favorite
Fletching Fund
Flint Condition
Flint Finder
Flint Knapper
Flint Lottery
Flint or Bust
Flint Please
Flint Roulette
Floor Is Gone
Flower Bed Maker
Flower Pot Fund
Follow Me Home
Follows the Snow Golem
Fool's Gold
Forgot I Had This
Fortune Favors the Flint
Fortune Five Hundred
Fortune Hunter
Fortune Teller
Foundation Day
Foundation of Empires
Four Balls of Clay
Four Scraps for a Shovel
Fourth Favorite Tool
Fuel Efficient
Furnace Fuel
Furrowmaker
Future Glass

G: 25 names

Garden Party
Garden Path
Gilded Spade
Gold Standard
Gold Star
Golden Shovel Award
Golem Trail Cleaner
Good as Gold
Good Spleef
Gopher It
Got the Glint
Grass Stain
Gravel Driveway
Gravel Gambler
Gravel Pit Boss
Gravel Stays Gravel
Gravel Unraveler
Gravelbane
Gravelly Speaking
Gravity Works
Greenskeeper
Gritreaver
Ground Control
Groundswell
Groundwork

H: 15 names

Hands Off My Shovel
Happy Trails
Head in the Sand
Heart of the Sea Seeker
Heavy Equipment
Here Be Chests
Hill Leveler
Hillbane
Hillrazer
Hillside Sculptor
Hit the Dirt
Honorable Mention
Hot Diggity
Hotbar Benchwarmer
Hourglass

I: 14 names

I Dig It
I Have Feelings Too
Ice Cream Scoop
Igloo Architect
In Spades
Inefficiency One
Infinite Snowballs
Inside Scoop
Insta-Dig
Inventory Full of Dirt
Iron Age Digger
Island Shaper
It's Fine I'm Fine
Item Frame Material

J: 3 names

Jack of Spades
Jackpot
Just Use Your Hand

K: 2 names

Keeper of the Path
Keeps the Clay Whole

L: 24 names

Labor of Shovel
Lake Maker
Land Escape
Landcarver
Landfall
Landfill
Landscape Architect
Landslide
Lava Proof Scoop
Lawn and Order
Lawn Ranger
Least Loved Tool
Left in the Chest
Let It Snow
Level Best
Librarian's Gift
Lights Out
Line in the Sand
Loamcleaver
Loamlord
Lost My Touch
Low Durability High Hopes
Luck of the Dig
Lucky Dip

M: 31 names

Main Street
Maker of Valleys
Mangrove Mud Mucker
Manual Labor
Manual World Edit
Maxed for No Reason
Mega Base Mover
Mending Fences
Mending Never Ends
Midas Touch
Middle Child
Mint Condition
Mirecleaver
Misfortune
Moat Maker
Moat Point
Moatwright
Mole King's Scepter
Mole Patrol
Molehill Maker
Mostly Decorative
Mountain Eraser
Mover of Mountains
Mr. Sandman
Mud Bud
Mud Pie
Muddy Buddy
Mudslide
Mudwarden
Museum Piece
My First Shovel

N: 11 names

Name Is Mud
Nether Regrets
Netherite for Dirt
Netherite Overkill
Never Enchanted First
Never Seen Combat
Nine Gravel No Flint
No Cheats Needed
No Diggity
No More S'mores
Not an Axe

O: 17 names

Occasionally Needed
Off the Beaten Path
Oh Right the Shovel
Old Soul
Older Than Dirt
On the Level
On the Mend
One Careful Owner
One Diamond Wasted
One Flint Wonder
One in Ten
One Ingot Wonder
One Use Left
Only for Gravel
Operation Flat Beach
Overqualified
Overworld Sculptor

P: 20 names

Paper Trail
Participation Trophy
Path of Least Resistance
Path-etic
Pathwright
Pay Dirt
Perimeter Digger
Pickaxe's Little Brother
Picked Last
Piglin Distraction
Pirate's Pal
Pitfall Planner
Plan C
Plank on a Stick
Play Clay
Please Use Me
Pond Planner
Powder Puff
Primrose Path
Push Comes to Shovel

Q: 1 name

Queen of Spades

R: 17 names

Rabbit Hole
Recom-Mended
Red Sand Bandit
Remember Me
Reshaper of Realms
Right Click Road
River Rerouter
Riverbed Raider
Road Crew
Road Work Ahead
Roadwright
Rock Solid
Roll of the Dice
Roll the Gravel
Room for a Castle
Rough Cut
Rug Puller

S: 99 names

Sand Dollar
Sand Trap
Sand Witch
Sandcastle Supervisor
Sandparter
Sands of Time
Scenic Route
Scoop Dreams
Scoop of the Day
Scoop There It Is
Scoop Troop
Scoopendous
Scooper Trooper
Scourge of the Gravel Pit
Scratch Ticket
Scroll Past Me
Sculptor of Shores
See You Below
Seismic Shift
Set in Stone
Shared Shovel Please Return
Sharp Find
Shine Bright
Shiny and Short-Lived
Shorebreaker
Shortcut
Should Have Been a Pickaxe
Shovel Actually
Shovel and Tell
Shovel at First Sight
Shovel of Approval
Shovel Ready
Shovel Trouble
Shovelry Is Not Dead
Shulker of Sand
Silk Pajamas
Silky Smooth
Site Prep
Sixteen by Sixteen
Sixty-Four Dirt
Skinflint
Slain by a Shovel
Slightly Better Than Hands
Slightly Shorter Block
Slot Nine
Small Fortune
Smithing Table Flex
Smoke Break Over
Smoke Signal Stopper

S, continued

Snow Block Saver
Snow Day
Snow Golem Farmhand
Snow Joke
Snow Mercy
Snow Problem
Snow Way
Snow Worries
Snowball Farm Foreman
Snowcleaver
Snowman's Janitor
Sod Buster
Soft Touch
Soilreaver
Sold My Soul Sand
Solid Gold Mistake
Sometimes Useful
Soul Proprietor
Soul Searcher
Soul Soil Toil
Soul Survivor
Soulsifter
Spade Brigade
Spade Crusader
Spade Invader
Spade My Day
Spade Parade
Spade Runner
Spade to Last
Spade to Order
Spare Sticks
Spark Starter
Spawn Day Special
Speed Scoop
Spleef Champion
Spleef It to Me
Spleef Legend
Spleef Season
Splinter Scoop
Starter Shovel
Steam Shovel
Stick in the Mud
Still No Flint
Stone Age Souvenir
Stone Age Spade
Stone Cold Scooper
Super Scooper
Superflat by Hand
Surf and Turf
Survival Mode Bulldozer

T: 34 names

Take a Chance
Takes the Grass With It
Technically a Tool
Ten Percent Flint
Ten Thousand Blocks
Terraward
Terror of Topsoil
Thankless Job
The Dig Leagues
The Great Leveler
The Last Furrow
The Other Tool
The Unearther
There Was a Hill Here
There's Snow Business
Third Favorite Tool
Thirty Levels Wasted
Thirty-Two Uses
This Way to Base
Throw in the Trowel
Tool of Last Resort
Toolsmith Special
Top Dig
Topsoil Tuesday
Touch Grass
Trail Mix
Treasure Map Follower
Trenchwarden
Trowel and Error
Turf War
Twenty-Four Karat
Two and a Half Damage
Two Sticks and a Plank
Two Weeks Later

U: 7 names

Unbreakable
Underrated
Understudy
Unearthed
Unpaved
Unsung Hero
Used to Be a Mountain

V: 3 names

Valleymaker
Village Chest Find
Village Roadworks

W: 14 names

Walk This Way
Warden of the Dunes
Warpath
Wet Blanket
What's the Dig Idea
Where Did the Hill Go
Why Diamond Though
Why Is This Enchanted
Winter Chores
Wither Prep Work
Wooden It Be Nice
Worldshaper
Worth One Diamond
Wrong Tool Again

X: 1 name

X Marks the Spot

Y: 2 names

Yard Work
Yellow Brick Road

Z: 3 names

Zen Garden
Zero Kills
Zoning Permit