Minecraft:Shears

Template:For Template:Infobox item Shears are a Minecraft:tool crafted from 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 durability when used to shear something.

Shearing either a Minecraft:beehive or 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 soul campfire below the hive or nest, all bees within exit and all nearby bees attack the offending player.

Minecraft:Dispensers can use shears in any of the above listed ways, interacting with any valid block or entity in front of the dispenser's face. This decreases the shears' durability. Durability is only consumed if the shearing action is successful. 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 a Minecraft:pumpkin turns it into a carved pumpkin, dropping 4 pumpkin seeds in Template:Editions and 1 in Template:Editions. If the pumpkin was attached to a pumpkin stem, the stem detaches. Shearing a correctly positioned pumpkin can summon a golem as if placing a carved pumpkin.

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

Shearing has a multitude of different effects on mobs for example:

Mob	What shearing does to the mob
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Drops 2 Minecraft:mushrooms, which can be 2 red mushrooms, 2 brown mushrooms or one of each. Can only be done once.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	If it has a Minecraft:poppy planted on it, it drops the flower.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:harness if it has it on.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:carpet if it has it on.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Drops 5 Minecraft:mushrooms of the corresponding color and irreversibly turns it into a normal cow.
REDIRECT 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 grass block or short grass to regenerate its coat.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Irreversibly removes its carved pumpkin, dropping the item and revealing its face.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Chaos Cubed }}{{#vardefine: $version2 | }}<upcoming: Template:Version link & Template:Version link></upcoming: Template:Version link & Template:Version link>
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Can remove the wolf armor if it has it on. Only the owner of the wolf can remove armor.<ref>Template:Bug.</ref>
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Can remove the Minecraft:saddle if it has it on.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Can remove the horse armor if it has it on.
REDIRECT Template:EntityLink REDIRECT Template:EntityLink	Can remove the nautilus armor if it has it on.

Note

It is not possible to remove equipment from a mob that is currently being ridden or to remove the saddle from a ravager.

Breaking blocks

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

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

When shears are used to break weeping vines or 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 tripwire connected to a 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
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice Template:Redr<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
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.15 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	REDIRECT Template:Table choice
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.05 s
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redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	REDIRECT Template:Table choice
redirect Template:blockLink	0.05 s	0.05 s
redirect Template:BlockSprite redirect Template: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>
redirect Template:blockLink	REDIRECT Template:Table choice	0.15 s
redirect Template:BlockSprite redirect Template:blockLink	0.05 s	0.05 s<ref name="nether vines" group="note"/>
redirect Template:blockLink	1.25 s	0.25 s

Repairing

Anvil repair

{{#vardefine:params|0 }}Template:Hatnote Template:Repairing Shears can be combined with another pair of shears in an Minecraft:anvil, preserving the enchantments of both.

Enchantments

Shears can receive the following enchantments:

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

Despite using iron in its crafting recipe, shears cannot be smelted into 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.

In other media

• Shears being used in a Lego set
  Shears being used in a Lego set
• Makena using shears on a giant sized leaf
  Makena using shears on a giant sized leaf

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