Shears

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Shears are a 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.

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{ "item": "Shears", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

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Shears lose 1 durability when used to shear something.

A 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' 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 either a beehive or bee nest that is full of honey makes it drop 3 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 campfire or soul campfire below the hive or nest, all bees within exit and all nearby bees attack the offending player.

Shearing a pumpkin turns it into a carved pumpkin, dropping 4 pumpkin seeds in Java Edition and 1 in Bedrock Edition. 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, 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:

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

Shears can be used to harvest cobwebs, leaves, short grass, short dry grass, tall dry grass, seagrass, ferns, bushes, dead bushes, nether sprouts, small dripleaves, 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 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.

Shears can be combined with another pair of shears in an anvil, preserving the enchantments of both.

Shears can receive the following enchantments:

Despite using iron in its crafting recipe, shears cannot be smelted into iron nuggets.^[2]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Shears" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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

• 👁 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
• 👁 Shears as seen in Minecraft Earth
  
  Shears as seen in Minecraft Earth

• "Taking Inventory: Shears" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, September 20, 2019.