Shears

Shears

Type	Tools
Durability	238
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
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.

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, 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 snow golem will remove its pumpkin, without dropping the pumpkin.^{[Java and Pocket editions only]}

Shearing a melon block will drop the full 9 melon pieces.^{[Pocket Edition only]}

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
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	Pocket	Nintendo
	Have a Shearful Day	Use Shears to obtain wool from a sheep.		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze

History

Beta
1.7					Shears were introduced into the game. They 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". Shears were originally planned as a way to defuse TNT, but Jeb dropped this shortly after deciding TNT would only detonate with redstone or fire.
					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					They can be used to harvest fern, vines and grass.
Official release
1.0.0			?		They can harvest red mushrooms from a mooshroom and turn it back into a normal cow.
1.1			11w49a		Sheep 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 villager for 3 emeralds each.
			12w22a		Shears can 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 changed: Shepherd villagers now sell shears for 3–4 emeralds each. Farmers no longer trade shears.
			1.8-pre1		Shears now lose durability when breaking wool blocks. In previous versions shears only took durability damage when they destroyed or broke tall grass or leaves, the damage remaining the same for all other blocks.
1.9			15w34a		Shears may be used in a crafting grid to zoom in maps.
			15w45a		Shears no longer zoom in maps.
			15w47b		Shears can no longer be enchanted with Silk Touch.
					Shears now lose durability when used to break any block (formerly only lost durability on leaves, web, grass, vines, tripwire, and wool).
			15w47c		Shears now harvest cobweb without requiring Silk Touch.
			15w49a		Snow golems' pumpkin can now be removed with shears.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added shears to survival mode.
0.8.0			build 3		Added shears to creative mode.
0.12.1			build 3		Shearing a snow golem will remove its pumpkin (version exclusive).
0.15.0			build 1		Shears now lose durability when used to break any block.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 3		Breaking a melon block with shears now always yields 9 melons.
Console Edition
TU3	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added shears.

Issues

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References

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