Minecraft:Shears

Template:For Template:Infobox item Shears are a Minecraft:tool crafted from Minecraft:iron ingots. They are required to obtain some organic blocks or otherwise mine them faster as well as to shear certain entities and blocks.

Obtaining

Usage

Shearing

Shears lose 1 Minecraft:durability when used to shear something.

A Minecraft:dispenser can use shears in many of the ways listed below, interacting with any valid block or entity in front of its face and decreasing the shears' Minecraft:durability. Dispensers cannot use shears to carve pumpkins or trim vines or kelp, or to remove equipment from mobs. Failed attempts, such as when a sheep has no wool, do not damage the shears, which can be useful for automated wool farms. A dispenser shearing a beehive or bee nest does not anger bees or cause them to leave, even if there is not a campfire or soul campfire below it.

Shearing blocks

Shearing either a Minecraft:beehive or Minecraft:bee nest that is full of honey makes it drop 3 Minecraft:honeycombs and resets it to honey level 0. The same beehive or bee nest can be sheared again if it is able to reach full honey again. If sheared by hand without a Minecraft:campfire or Minecraft:soul campfire below the hive or nest, all bees within exit and all nearby bees attack the offending player.

Shearing a Minecraft:pumpkin turns it into a Minecraft:carved pumpkin, dropping 4 Minecraft:pumpkin seeds Template:In and 1 Template:In. If the pumpkin was attached to a Minecraft:pumpkin stem, the stem detaches. Shearing a correctly positioned pumpkin can summon a golem as if placing a carved pumpkin.

Shearing the tip of Minecraft:cave vines, Minecraft:kelp, Minecraft:weeping vines, or Minecraft:twisting vines stops further growth by setting its age value to 25.

Shearing mobs

Shearing has a multitude of different effects on mobs:

Mob	Result of shearing	Can be done by dispensers?
Template:EntityLink or any Template:ItemLink entity	Removes all the connected leads.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Drops 2 Minecraft:mushrooms, which can be 2 red mushrooms, 2 brown mushrooms or one of each. Can only be done once.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	If it has a Minecraft:poppy planted on it, it drops the flower.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Drops 5 Minecraft:mushrooms of the corresponding color and irreversibly turns it into a normal Minecraft:cow.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Removes its coat and drop 1–3 Minecraft:wool of the corresponding color. The same sheep can be sheared again after it eats from a Minecraft:grass block or Minecraft:short grass to regenerate its coat.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Irreversibly removes its carved pumpkin, dropping the item and revealing its face.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	If it has absorbed a block it drops the absorbed block.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:wolf armor if it has it on. Only the owner of the wolf can remove armor.<ref>Template:Bug.</ref>	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:saddle if it has it on. Cannot be done if the mob is currently being ridden.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:harness if it has it on. Cannot be done if the mob is currently being ridden.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:horse armor if it has it on. Cannot be done if the mob is currently being ridden.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:carpet if it has it on. Cannot be done if the mob is currently being ridden.	Template:Tc
Template:EntityLink Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:nautilus armor if it has it on. Cannot be done if the mob is currently being ridden.	Template:Tc

Breaking blocks

Shears use 1 Minecraft:durability when they are used to break any block (except Minecraft:fire and Minecraft:soul fire).

Shears can be used to harvest Minecraft:cobwebs, Minecraft:leaves, Minecraft:short grass, Minecraft:short dry grass, Minecraft:tall dry grass, Minecraft:seagrass, Minecraft:ferns, Minecraft:bushes, Minecraft:dead bushes, Minecraft:nether sprouts, Minecraft:small dripleaves, Minecraft:vines, Minecraft:glow lichen or Minecraft:hanging roots and obtain them in item form. If used to break Minecraft:tall grass, Minecraft:tall seagrass or Minecraft:large ferns, 2 units of the respective small plant are dropped instead.

When shears are used to break Minecraft:weeping vines or Minecraft:twisting vines they are guaranteed to drop in item form instead of the usual 33% chance. This applies to vines directly broken by shears and not vines that are broken due to the destruction of their supporting vines.

Shears can also be used to break Minecraft:tripwire connected to a Minecraft:tripwire hook without activating it. Additionally, shears can be used to break Minecraft:wool faster than other tools.

The following table shows information about blocks that can be broken with shears. Colors indicate what gets dropped when the block is broken:

• White on light mode, gray on dark mode: The original block.
• Blue: The block's normal drop (i.e. string, sticks, seeds, saplings, apples).
• Yellow: two units of the corresponding small plant (short grass, seagrass, or ferns)
• Red: Nothing.

	No shears breaking time	Shears breaking time
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc<ref group="note">Breaking cobwebs with a sword is as fast as breaking with shears, and yields string. This costs double durability.</ref>	0.4 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.15 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.05 s
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Template:BlockLink	0.05 s	0.05 s
Template:BlockSpriteTemplate:BlockLink	0.05 s	0.05 s<ref name="nether vines" group="note">Using shears increases the chance of dropping from 1/3 to 100%.</ref>
Template:BlockLink	Template:Tc	0.15 s
Template:BlockSpriteTemplate:BlockLink	0.05 s	0.05 s<ref name="nether vines" group="note"/>
Template:BlockLink	1.25 s	0.25 s

Repairing

Anvil repair

Template:Main Template:Repairing Shears can be combined with another pair of shears in an Minecraft:anvil, preserving the Minecraft:enchantments of both.

Enchantments

Shears can receive the following Minecraft:enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Minecraft:Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Template:BlockLink	10
Minecraft:Silk TouchTemplate:Only	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Template:BlockLink	1
Minecraft:Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Mending	Repairs the shears when obtaining Minecraft:experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	The shears vanish on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Despite using iron in its crafting recipe, shears cannot be smelted into Minecraft:iron nuggets.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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History

Gallery

Renders

• An enchanted pair of shears.
  An enchanted pair of shears.
• A regular pair of shears.
  A regular pair of shears.

In other media

• Shears being used in a Lego set
  Shears being used in a Lego set
• Minecraft:Makena using shears on a giant sized leaf
  Minecraft:Makena using shears on a giant sized leaf
• Template:MCE as seen in Minecraft:Minecraft Earth
  Template:MCE as seen in Minecraft:Minecraft Earth

External links

• Template:Mcnet