How to Make Shears in Minecraft

One of the most useful tools in Minecraft that you will need frequently is shears. They are necessary for getting some blocks like beehives and items like wool from sheep. They can also help automate a bunch of actions if placed indispensers. Shears don’t have much durability, but you can easily make lots of them due to their cheap crafting recipe. So, in this guide, let’s see how you can make shears in Minecraft right now.

What You Need to Make Shears

What You Need to Make Shears

To make shears, you only needtwo iron ingots. You may find them inside loot chests of various in-game structures, or you can make them yourself by smelting raw iron or iron ore in afurnace in Minecraft. This crafting recipe does not require acrafting table, as your 2 x 2 crafting grid is more than enough.

How to Craft Shears in Minecraft

How to Craft Shears in Minecraft

When you get the required iron, follow the simple steps below to craft shears.

Note:Alternatively, in this crafting recipe, you can place the first ingot in the upper left corner and the second one in the bottom right corner. What matters here is that they are on a diagonal from each other.

Where Can You Get Shears in Minecraft

You can obtain shears in a few more ways inside your world. One of them is throughtradingwithvillagers. Novice-level shepherds have a 40% chance to sell shears for 2 emeralds each on the Java edition. In the Bedrock edition, shepherds always sell shears.

The second way to get shears is toloot chestsin the shepherd villagers’ house insidevillages. You will have about a 12% chance of finding shears in them.

As you can see, crafting shears is very easy but don’t let that make you think they’re not useful. We have covered all theuses of shears in Minecraftin a dedicated article, which will make it clear why you need them. With that said, go and make shears right away!

The shears crafting recipe is not shapeless, which means you need to place the two iron ingots in one of the two exact configurations to make them.

No, there is only one type of shear in Minecraft, and they are made of iron.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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