How To Make Shears In Minecraft

Ever want to cut grass or wool from sheep? Or collect a large number of leaves to decorate? Today, we will show you how to craft a Shears in Minecraft!

Updated on Nov 09, 2023
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How To Make Shears In Minecraft

Everything you need to make Shears

Despite the fact Shears is easy to make in Minecraft, it has many useful usages like helping you collect leaves and plants faster, collecting wool and mushroom from mobs, and creating Carved Pumpkin to spawn golems. You only need to mine for some Irons to make a Shears.

  • 1x Iron Ingot

How to craft Shears in Minecraft

#1 Collect 2x Iron Ingot

You can get 1x Iron Ingot by either smelting 1x Iron Ore/Deepslate Iron Ore/Raw Iron in the Furnace. And you can get those by mining underground.


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Iron Ingot can also be found in looted chests in most structures like Dungeons, Mineshafts, Temples, Bastion Remnants, Pillager Outposts, Shipwrecks, and more! They have a variety of chances to contain 1-9x Iron Ingot.


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Iron Ingot can also be crafted by using 1x Block of Iron or 9x Iron Nugget. They yield 9x or 1x Iron Ingot correspondingly.


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Alternatively, you can kill Iron Golems for 3-5x Iron Ingot. Zombies, Zombie Villagers, and Husks have a 0.8-3.83% chance to drop 1x Iron Ingot.


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#2 Finish off crafting a Shears

When you have 2x Iron Ingot, just press E to open your inventory and place them diagonally to craft 1x Shears.


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You can also get 1x Shears by trading with the Shepherd villagers for 2x Emerald. They need to at the Novice level to have this trade.


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Another way to get Shears is to look for looted chests in the Village. They have a 12.3% to contain 1x Shears.

What is the give command to get a Shears?

The command to give yourself a Shears is: /give @p shears 1

Now you have a Shears, remember to use it carefully since it can instantly destroy some blocks!

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