Shears


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Crafting

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft 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 3⃢₀ₓ4 emeralds as part of their initial tier trades.

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 Grass Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Renewable Grass, Fern, Double variants: Yes Shrub: No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Seeds (0–1) Data values Grass, Fern or Shrub dec: 31 hex: 1F bin: 11111 Double minecraft , ferns Grass Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Renewable Grass, Fern, Double variants: Yes Shrub: No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Seeds (0–1) Data values Grass, Fern or Shrub dec: 31 hex: 1F bin: 11111 Double minecraft (both normal and 2-high), dead bushes Dead Bush Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable PC: Yes PE: No, but catches fire from lava Drops Stick (0–2) Data value dec: 32 hex: 20 bin: 100000 Name deadbush minecraft and vines. Also, leaves harvested by shears do not decay when placed.

Shearing a mooshroom drops 5 red mushrooms Mushroom Type Ingredient Block Restores None Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Luminance Yes, 1 (brown only) First appearances See History Data values See Data values Name See Data values See minecraft and turns it into a normal cow Cow Health points 10 () Size Adult: Height: 1.4 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks Spawn Opaque blocks with at least two blocks of space above them. After shearing a minecraft .

Shearing a tripwire String Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops String (1) Data values Block dec: 132 hex: 84 bin: 10000100 Item dec: 287 hex: 11F bin: 100011111 Name Block tripwire Item minecraft connected to tripwire hooks Tripwire Hook Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 131 hex: 83 bin: 10000011 Name tripwire_hook See the hooks. For minecraft doesn`t trigger them.

Shearing a snow golem Snow Golem Health points 4 () Attack strength 0 () (only pushes mobs back) 3 () to Blaze Size Height: 1.9 Blocks Width: 0.7 Blocks Spawn Where created by the player First appearances See History minecraft will remove its pumpkin, without dropping the pumpkin. Java Minecraft Author(s) Mojang AB (Credits) Markus "Notch" Persson (Creator) Jens "Jeb" Bergensten (Lead Developer) Jon "jonkagstrom" Kågström (AI Programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams Erik "Grum" Broes Michael "Searge" Stoyke Thomas "ProfMobius" Guimbretière Agnes "LadyAgnes" Larsson Maria minecraft and Pocket editions

Shearing a melon block Melon Transparency Partial (blocks light) Luminance No Blast resistance 5 Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Melon (3–7) (9 if broken with shears Pocket edition only]) Data value dec: 103 hex: 67 bin: 1100111 Name melon_block minecraft will drop the full 9 melon pieces. Pocketedition only Pocket Edition Author(s) Mojang AB Jens Bergensten Aron Nieminen Daniel Kaplan Tommaso Checchi Shoghi Cervantes Jason Major Daniel Wustenhoff Tomas Alaeus Mikael "Slicedlime" Hedberg @@@#@@@Microsoft(microsoft.com)###@### Studios 1] Platform(s) Written in C++ 2] Latest version 1.1.2 minecraft

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
  1. Breaking cobwebs with a sword is as fast as breaking with shears, and yields string. This costs double durability.
  2. Using shears won`t trigger a redstone pulse.

Enchantments

Shears can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item minecraft .

Achievements

Icon Achievement Pocket Edition & Console Edition only The popup that appears when an achievement is earned. "The End?" and "The End." redirect here. For the dimension, see The End. Certain names of achievements redirect here. For minecraft In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Availability Xbox points earned Trophy type (PS)
Xbox PS Pocket Wii U

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

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History

Beta Beta Starting version Beta 1.0 (Dec. 20, 2010) Latest version Beta 1.9-pre6 (Nov. 13, 2011) Paid Yes These versions are available to play in the launcher. Be that as it may, please note that these versions contain bugs. You ll minecraft
1.7 Beta 1.7 Release date Jun. 30, 2011 Download Client Server Other editions of 1.7 Java Edition ◄◄ Beta 1.6 ◄ Beta 1.6.6 Beta 1.7.1 ► Beta 1.8 ►► See the computer edition. minecraft Shears were introduced into the game. They were first mentioned by Jeb on @@@#@@@Twitter(twitter.com)###@### The tweet revealing Jeb`s work on shears was written in Swedish (Jag jobbar pℂℽ 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 Mushroom Type Ingredient Block Restores None Cookable No Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Luminance Yes, 1 (brown only) First appearances See History Data values See Data values Name See Data values See minecraft from a mooshroom and turn it back into a normal cow Cow Health points 10 () Size Adult: Height: 1.4 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks Spawn Opaque blocks with at least two blocks of space above them. After shearing a minecraft .
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 Dead Bush Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable PC: Yes PE: No, but catches fire from lava Drops Stick (0–2) Data value dec: 32 hex: 20 bin: 100000 Name deadbush minecraft .
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 Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops String (1) Data values Block dec: 132 hex: 84 bin: 10000100 Item dec: 287 hex: 11F bin: 100011111 Name Block tripwire Item minecraft 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 3⃢₀ₓ4 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 String Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops String (1) Data values Block dec: 132 hex: 84 bin: 10000100 Item dec: 287 hex: 11F bin: 100011111 Name Block tripwire Item minecraft , 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 Snow Golem Health points 4 () Attack strength 0 () (only pushes mobs back) 3 () to Blaze Size Height: 1.9 Blocks Width: 0.7 Blocks Spawn Where created by the player First appearances See History minecraft 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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Crafting

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Iron Ingot
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