
Efficient Shears
A small quality-of-life mod that removes the randomness from shearing. Vanilla sheep drop a random 1-3 wool per shear. Efficient Shears guarantees a flat 3 wool every time, no more, no less.
What it changes
- Shearing a sheep with shears always yields 3 wool.
- Wool color, shear sound, durability cost, and regrowth behavior are all untouched — this mod only affects the drop count.
What it doesn't change
- Killing sheep (still drops wool the vanilla way if unsheared, mutton as normal).
- Any other shearable mob or block (mooshrooms, snow golems, pumpkins, etc.), this only touches sheep.
Compatibility
- Server-side only, no client installation required for multiplayer.
- Works in Singleplayer too
- Should be broadly compatible with other mods/datapacks that touch the sheep shearing loot table, since Efficient Shears normalizes the final drop count after loot generation rather than overwriting the loot table outright.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as efficient-shears-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 14 KB
- Download link checked 11 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.