Shears

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

Trading
Novice-level Shepherd villagers have a 40% chance to sell shears for 2 emeralds in Java Edition, and the trade is always offered in Bedrock Edition.

Usage
Despite using iron in its crafting recipe, it cannot be smelted into iron nuggets.

Shearing
Shears are the most efficient way to get wool from a sheep, producing 1–3 wool blocks. The same sheep can be sheared again after it eats from a grass block to regenerate its wool. In contrast, killing the sheep yields only 1 non-renewable wool block.

Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 mushrooms of the same color and turns it into a normal cow.

Shearing a pumpkin turns it into a carved pumpkin after dropping 4 pumpkin seeds $$ or 1-3 pumpkin seeds $$.

Shearing a snow golem removes its pumpkin, dropping it in Java Edition.

Shearing either a beehive or bee nest at honey level 5 drops 3 honeycombs.

In Minecraft Earth, Shears can be used to get Buttercups from Mooblooms and Wool from Wooly Cows and variant Sheep.

Breaking Blocks
Shears can also be used to harvest cobweb, leaves, tall grass, seagrass, ferns (both normal and 2-high), dead bushes, nether sprouts and vines. They can also be used to break Tripwire connected to a Tripwire Hook without activating it.

The following table shows information about blocks that can be broken with shears. Colors indicate what gets 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.

Enchantments
Shears can receive the following enchantments via an anvil.


 * Unbreaking
 * Efficiency
 * Mending
 * Curse of Vanishing
 * Silk Touch