Shears

Shears are tools 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. 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 and revealing its true face. The snow golem cannot get the pumpkin back, even through commands.

Shearing either a beehive or bee nest at honey level 5 drops 3 honeycombs. This does not break the hive or nest.

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 blocks of wool, cobweb, leaves, tall grass, seagrass, ferns (both normal and 2-high), dead bushes, nether sprouts, vines, weeping vines, twisting vines and glow lichen. They can also be used to break tripwire connected to a tripwire hook without activating it.

When used to break weeping vines and twisting vines, the block always drops as an item, instead of a 33% chance by normal means.

The shears use 1 durability when it is used to break any block, even if it breaks instantly by hand.

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.

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Video
This video is outdated, since snow golems drop carved pumpkins when sheared, and cobwebs drop itself when broken with shears