Overview#
The Wooden Shears mod is designed to streamline the early-game experience by providing players with a functional alternative to iron shears. Created for players who prefer to stay on the surface or focus on building and decoration before diving into deep mining, this mod allows for the collection of essential organic materials using only wood.
While they function identically to their iron counterparts in terms of harvesting capabilities, Wooden Shears are balanced by a significantly lower base durability. This makes them a perfect bridge tool for survivalists, skyblock players, and those looking to decorate their world with wool and foliage during the first days of a new save.
Items#
The mod adds a single primary item to the game's toolset.
Wooden Shears
Wooden Shears are the wooden-tier equivalent of the vanilla iron shears. They are used for shearing mobs and harvesting blocks that require a delicate touch.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Durability | 50 (Default) |
| Stackable | No |
| Repairable | Yes (using Wooden Planks) |
| Enchantable | Yes (Efficiency, Silk Touch, Unbreaking, Mending) |
By default, the tool has 50 uses, which is roughly 1/5th the durability of iron shears (238). This durability can be modified or disabled entirely through the server configuration file.
Recipes#
Crafting Wooden Shears is straightforward and requires only basic materials available from the start of the game. They can be crafted using any type of wooden plank, including Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Mangrove, Cherry, Bamboo, Crimson, or Warped planks.
Crafting Table Recipe
To craft Wooden Shears, place two planks of the same type diagonally in the crafting grid.
| Result | Ingredients | Pattern |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden Shears | 2x Any Wooden Planks | Diagonal (Top-Right and Bottom-Left or vice versa) |
Note: The recipe is shapeless in some versions, but typically follows the diagonal pattern of standard shears.
Mechanics and Usage#
Wooden Shears support all behaviors associated with vanilla shears. They allow players to interact with the environment and mobs in specific ways that are otherwise impossible or inefficient.
Mob Interactions
- Sheep: Right-clicking a sheep will shear its wool, dropping 1–3 wool blocks of the sheep's color. This does not harm the sheep.
- Mooshrooms: Shearing a Mooshroom (Red or Brown) will drop 5 mushrooms of the corresponding type and transform the Mooshroom into a standard Cow.
- Snow Golems: Right-clicking a Snow Golem will remove its pumpkin head, revealing its true face underneath.
Block Harvesting
Wooden Shears allow for the "Silk Touch" style harvesting of specific organic blocks that would otherwise break or drop different items:
- Leaves: Harvests any leaf block (Oak, Spruce, etc.) for use in decoration.
- Cobwebs: Instantly harvests cobwebs as an item instead of dropping string.
- Plants: Harvests Tall Grass, Seagrass, Ferns, Large Ferns, Dead Bushes, and Vines.
- Glow Lichen: Allows for the collection of Glow Lichen blocks.
Specialty Mechanics
- Pumpkins: Used to carve a face into a placed Pumpkin, turning it into a Carved Pumpkin (required for making Jack o' Lanterns or Golems).
- Beehives and Bee Nests: When a hive or nest reaches honey level 5, using Wooden Shears will harvest 3 Honeycombs. (Caution: This will anger the bees unless a campfire is placed underneath).
- Tripwires: Shearing a tripwire connected to a tripwire hook will break the wire without triggering the redstone signal, allowing for safe passage through traps.
Configuration#
The mod includes a server-side configuration file that allows administrators and players to customize the tool's balance.
Configuration File Location
The config file is located within each savegame's directory at:
[world_save]/serverconfig/woodenshears-server.toml
Note: If you wish to apply changes to all new worlds, modify the file in the defaultconfig folder of your Minecraft instance.
Configurable Options
| Option | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| durability | 50 | Defines the maximum number of uses for Wooden Shears. |
Special Values:
- 50: The default number of shearing interactions.
- 0: Setting the value to 0 deactivates durability, making the Wooden Shears infinite.
Technical Requirements#
To ensure the mod functions correctly, the following dependencies must be installed based on the chosen mod loader:
Fabric and Quilt Requirements
- Fabric API: Required for core functionality on Fabric-based loaders.
- Cloth Config API: Required for the configuration menu and server-side settings.
- WSMLMB: Specifically required for versions 1.20.4 and higher to handle multi-loader compatibility.
Forge and NeoForge Requirements
- No additional dependencies are required beyond the respective mod loader itself for version 1.20.1.
