Where to Find Shears in Minecraft

Shears, a crafted item filed under Tools in Minecraft, comes from one place, and this page walks through all 2 methods that end with Shears in your inventory, fastest one first. All Overworld biomes is the address for Shears, and there you craft it from 2 Iron Ingots. Finding Shears is rated very easy (1/5): it is one of the first things a new survival world can supply, needing no special gear or travel. Practically speaking, no distant biome is involved in getting Shears: a Crafting Table makes it, so the rest of this guide is about lining up the ingredients and picking the moment to make one.

Biomes & Dimensions

• All Overworld biomes

All Methods

1. 1Craft using 2 Iron Ingots
2. 2Iron Ingots from smelting Iron Ore or looting chests

• Use on sheep to collect 1-3 wool without killing them
• Harvest cobwebs as string, leaves as leaf blocks, and vines as vine blocks
• Collect beehives with bees inside when used on a full beehive (requires campfire below to avoid angering bees)

Shearing a sheep yields 1-3 wool without killing it. Can harvest cobwebs as string.

Shears are two iron ingots, and they pay for themselves the first time you take wool from a sheep instead of killing it. They also collect leaves, cobwebs, vines and honeycomb without damage, which makes them the tool a decorator carries as often as a farmer does.

Two iron ingots is the whole cost, and shears pay for themselves the first time you shear a sheep instead of killing it, since the wool regrows. They also collect leaves, vines, cobwebs and seagrass, and cutting a cobweb with shears is far faster than cutting it with a sword.