Shears

Shears are a tool used primarily to shear sheep 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.

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 mushrooms of the same color, and turns it into a normal cow.

Shearing a tripwire connected to a tripwire hook does not trigger it.

Shearing a pumpkin turns it into a carved pumpkin after dropping 4 pumpkin seeds.

Shearing a snow golem removes its pumpkin, without dropping the pumpkin.

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

Speed and durability
The following table shows information about items on which shears can be used. 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.


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