Make Shears in Minecraft

Shears are used for shearing sheep, harvesting plants, gathering cobwebs and destroying wool blocks in Minecraft. They're very simple to craft.

Steps

Finding the materials

  1. Mine for iron. You'll need two iron ores.
  2. Smelt it. This is done by placing the two ores into a furnace. Place iron in the top slot, fuel (coal) in the bottom slot.
  3. Retrieve the two iron ingots that you have smelted.

Crafting the shears

  1. Place the two iron ingots into your crafting table.
  2. Arrange them as follows:
    • Place one iron ingot in the center left column
    • Place the other iron ingot in the center top row.
  3. Shift click or drag the shears to your inventory.

Using the shears

Shears can shear sheep, destroy wool faster or harvest tall grass, leaves, dead bushes, vines and ferns.

  1. Shear a sheep. With the shears in your hand, stand next to a sheep and right click. You will shear the sheep. To retrieve the wool, simply walk over it.
    • You will get from 1 to 3 blocks of wool from each sheep you shear.
    • Be careful in Minecraft Pocket Edition. If you're not careful, you can kill the sheep. To shear one properly, touch and hold down on the screen, in the way you'd break a block. Otherwise shearing the sheep can hurt the sheep and will kill it after 8 hits.
  2. Harvest plants. With the shears in your hands, left click on the plant.
    • Note that some plants can be harvested without shears but some plants are better harvested using shears, such as ferns, tall grass, vines, leaves and dead bushes.
  3. Destroy a cobweb. Use the shears to remove cobwebs almost instantly. Left click to begin the action. You'll get a piece of string for your efforts.
  4. Use shears on a mushroom. Right click and the effect will be to produce red mushrooms and restores the mushroom to a cow.
  5. Destroy wool faster. If you have misplaced the wool, you may need to destroy it. Without shears, doing this can take some time. To destroy, place the shears in your hands and left click.
    • The shears will not be damaged by destroying wool blocks.

Tips

  • If you want colored wool, a sheep can be dyed before shearing.
  • You find a lot more gold in water.
  • Leaves that are obtained with shears become place-able leaf blocks that won't deteriorate. The leaves will not drop saplings.

Things You'll Need

  • Minecraft installed
  • Iron ingots

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