Shears

Shears are tools required to obtain some organic blocks or otherwise mine them faster, or to shear certain entities and blocks.

Crafting
Despite using iron in its crafting recipe, shears cannot be smelted into iron nuggets.

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.

Shearing
Shears can be on a sheep to remove its coat and drop 1–3 wool of the corresponding color. The same sheep can be sheared again after it eats from a grass block to regenerate its coat.

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

Shearing a snow golem removes its pumpkin, dropping it and revealing its face. The snow golem cannot get its pumpkin back.

Shearing either a beehive or bee nest at honey level 5 drops 3 honeycombs and resets it to honey level 0. The same beehive or bee nest can be sheared again if it is able to reach honey level 5 again. If sheared by hand without a campfire below the hive or nest all bees within will exit and all nearby bees will attack the player that sheared their hive or nest.

Dispensers can use shears in any of the above listed ways, interacting with any valid block or entity in front of the dispenser's face. This decreases the shears' durability. A dispenser shearing a beehive or bee nest will not anger bees or cause them to leave.

Shearing a pumpkin turns it into a carved pumpkin, dropping 4 pumpkin seeds $$ or 1-3 pumpkin seeds $$. Shearing the tip of cave vines, kelp, weeping vines, or twisting vines sets its age value to 25 and stops further growth.

Shears lose 1 durability when used to shear something.

Breaking blocks
Shears can also be used to harvest wool, cobwebs, leaves, grass, tall grass, seagrass, tall seagrass, ferns, large ferns, dead bushes, nether sprouts, vines, weeping vines, twisting vines, glow lichen and hanging roots. 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:

Sounds


Pumpkins do not have carve sounds.

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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