Shears

Shears are a tool crafted from iron ingots. They are required to obtain some organic blocks or otherwise mine them faster as well as to shear certain entities and blocks.

Shears lose 1 durability when used to shear something.

A dispenser can use shears in many of the ways listed below, interacting with any valid block or entity in front of its face and decreasing the shears' durability. Dispensers cannot use shears to carve pumpkins or trim vines or kelp, or to remove equipment from mobs. Failed attempts, such as when a sheep has no wool, do not damage the shears, which can be useful for automated wool farms. A dispenser shearing a beehive or bee nest does not anger bees or cause them to leave, even if there is not a campfire or soul campfire below it.