Shears

Shears

Type	Tools
Durability	238
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
Sounds	Shearing
Data value	dec: 359 hex: 167 bin: 101100111
Name	shears

Shears are a tool used primarily to shear sheep and mine a few types of blocks.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Iron Ingot
Damaged Shears		The durability of the two shears is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.[until 1.14]

Trading

Shepherd villagers sell shears for 3–4 emeralds as part of their initial tier trades.

Usage

Shearing

Shears are the most efficient way to get wool from sheep, producing 1–3 wool blocks (as opposed to killing a sheep which produces only 1 wool block).

Shears can also be used to harvest cobweb, leaves, tall grass, seagrass, ferns (both normal and 2-high), dead bushes and vines. Also, leaves harvested by shears do not decay when placed.

Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 red mushrooms and turns it into a normal cow.

Shearing a tripwire connected to tripwire hooks doesn't trigger them.

Shearing a pumpkin will turn it into a carved pumpkin after dropping 4 pumpkin seeds.

Shearing a snow golem will remove its pumpkin, without dropping the pumpkin.

In Bedrock Edition, shearing a melon block will drop all 9 melon pieces.

Speed and durability

The following table shows various things about shears. Colors indicate what will be dropped when the block is broken:

• White: The original block.
• Blue: The Block's normal drop (i.e. string, sticks, seeds, sapling, apple).
• Red: Nothing.

	No shears breaking time	Shears breaking time	Right click with shears
Cobweb	20 s	0.4 s	—
Dead Bush	0 s	0 s	—
Fern	0 s	0 s	—
Grass	0 s	0 s	—
Leaves	0.3 s	0.05 s	—
Tripwire	0 s	0 s	—
Vines	0.3 s	0.35 s	—
Wool	1.2 s	0.25 s	—
Mooshroom	—	—	5 Red Mushroom
Seagrass	0 s	0 s
Sheep	—	—	1–3 Wool

Enchantments

Shears can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil.

• Efficiency
• Unbreaking
• Mending
• Curse of Vanishing

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Have a Shearful Day	Use Shears to obtain wool from a sheep.		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze

History

Java Edition Beta
June 3, 2011					Shears were first mentioned by Jeb on Twitter. The tweet revealing Jeb's work on shears was written in Swedish (Jag jobbar på shears nu), which translates to "I'm working on shears now".
June 7, 2011					Jeb tweets about how shears were originally planned as a way to defuse TNT, but he dropped this shortly after deciding TNT would only detonate with redstone or fire.
1.7					Shears have been introduced into the game.
					Before Beta 1.7, sheep would drop 1-3 wool blocks at most when hit, but shears can harvest up to 4 wool blocks per sheep.
1.8			Pre-release		Shears can now be used to harvest a fern, vines and grass.
Java Edition
1.0.0			?		Shears will now harvest red mushrooms from a mooshroom and turn it back into a normal cow.
1.1			11w49a		Sheep will now drop only 1-3 wool blocks when sheared, but they can also regrow their wool by eating grass, which is part of a plan to have animals stay in the game longer.
1.2.1			12w06a		Shears can now be used to harvest dead bushes.
1.3.1			12w21a		Shears can now be bought from farmer villagers for 3 emeralds each.
			12w22a		Shears can now be used to break tripwire string and not set it off.
1.4.2			12w38a		Added a sound when using shears on sheep.
1.4.6			12w50a		Shears can now be enchanted.
1.8			14w02a		Trading has been changed: Shepherd villagers will now sell shears for 3–4 emeralds each.
					Farmers will now no longer trade shears.
			pre1		Shears will now lose durability when breaking wool blocks. In previous versions, shears would only take durability damage when they became destroyed or broke tall grass or leaves, the damage remaining the same for all other blocks.
1.9			15w34a		Shears may now be used in a crafting grid to zoom in maps.
			15w45a		Shears will now no longer zoom in maps.
			15w47b		Shears can now no longer be enchanted with Silk Touch.
					Shears will now lose durability when used to break any block (formerly only lost durability on leaves, web, grass, vines, tripwire and wool).
			15w47c		Shears will now harvest cobweb without requiring Silk Touch.
			15w49a		Snow golems' pumpkin can now be removed with shears.
1.13			17w47a		When an un-carved pumpkin is right-clicked with shears, it will now turn into a carved pumpkin and spit out 4 pumpkin seeds.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 359.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			18w43a		Shears placed in a dispenser can now shear sheep.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added shears to survival mode.
0.8.0			build 3		Added shears to creative mode.
0.9.0			build 1		Shears can now be used to transform mooshroom into cow.
0.12.1			build 3		Shearing a snow golem will now remove its pumpkin.
					Shears can now be enchanted in an anvil.
0.13.0			build 1		Shears can now be used to break tripwire string without triggering it.
0.15.0			build 1		Shears will now lose durability when used to break any block.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0		Shears can now be bought from shepherd villagers.
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		Breaking a melon block with shears will now always yield 9 melons.
Bedrock Edition
1.4			beta 1.2.13.8		Shears can now be used to turn un-carved pumpkins into carved pumpkin and spit out 4 pumpkin seeds.
Legacy Console Edition
TU3	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added shears.
TU69		1.76			Shears can now be used to turn regular pumpkins into carved pumpkins. It will spit out only one piece of pumpkin seeds, unlike Java and Bedrock Editions.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Shears.

Issues

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References

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