Shears

Shear
Type:	Item
Found naturally:	No
Renewable:	Yes
Identifier:	shear

Shears can be used to delicately obtain certain items, such as leaves, grass, and wool from sheep.

Obtaining

Shears are crafted using two iron ingots placed diagonally of each other. This recipe can be flipped.

Usage

Shears can be used to break things like grass, leaves, and shrubs, dropping them as items.

Sheep

Shears can also be used to obtain wool from sheep by shift-clicking. This makes the sheep naked, however it will grow back its wool when it next eats grass.

Pumpkins

Shears can be used to carve faces into pumpkins, by shift-clicking. Every time this is done, it will change to the next texture, eventually looping back to the uncarved texture. This does not use up the shears' durability.

History

Version	Date	Changes
1.19.4	Dec 11, 2011	Added shears Shears replace the broom item, which had almost the same functionalities as shears
1.24	Dec 22, 2012	Shears lose durability when used
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Fixed shears Shears can be used to carve pumpkin faces
1.28	Oct 08, 2016	Shears lose durability when used on sheep

Trivia

• Technically, Shears existed before version 1.19.4, though with a different name and texture. The item in question is the Broom, which was crafted using two Sticks and a pice of Cloth (Wool), in the same pattern as that of a shovel. It had almost the same functionalities as Shears, giving the ability to break leaves and plants to obtain their item forms.
  • The only functionality they didn't share with shears was obtaining wool from sheep, as the ability to shear sheep only got added when the Broom was replaced by Shears.

Gallery

• Broom crafting recipe MC textures.png

See also

• Tools
• Leaves
• Pumpkin