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Swinging every 0.7 seconds, Shears clears a boar carcass with 100 health in about 8 seconds.
What one batch takes.
The same recipe expanded until every line is something you gather, smelt or loot.
Metal Fragments
Scrap
Metal Blade
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
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"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 2,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metalblade"
}
]
Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
Every player starts with this blueprint. Researching it anyway costs 10 scrap at a Research Table.
Keeps is the share of what the tool breaks off that reaches your inventory. The rest is destroyed with the swing.
What the Shears brings back from each animal
| Animal | You get | Swings | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crocodile | 19 Raw Crocodile Meat, 170 Bone Fragments, 120 Animal Fat, 170 Leather, 30 Cloth | 13 | 8.4s |
| Polar bear | 22 Raw Bear Meat, 170 Bone Fragments, 120 Animal Fat, 125 Leather, 50 Cloth | 13 | 8.4s |
| Bear | 20 Raw Bear Meat, 150 Bone Fragments, 100 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 50 Cloth | 13 | 8.4s |
| Panther | 19 Raw Big Cat Meat, 150 Bone Fragments, 100 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 50 Cloth | 13 | 8.4s |
| Tiger | 19 Raw Big Cat Meat, 150 Bone Fragments, 100 Animal Fat, 70 Leather, 70 Cloth | 12 | 7.7s |
| Bull | 20 Raw Beef, 100 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 30 Cloth | 13 | 8.4s |
| Cow | 20 Raw Beef, 100 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 30 Cloth | 13 | 8.4s |
| Shark | 40 Leather, 50 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 20 Cloth, 18 Raw Fish | 13 | 8.4s |
| Wolf | 5 Raw Wolf Meat, 40 Bone Fragments, 10 Animal Fat, 75 Leather, 35 Cloth, 1 Wolf Skull | 14 | 9.1s |
| Horse | 5 Raw Horse Meat, 50 Bone Fragments, 10 Animal Fat, 50 Leather, 25 Cloth | 12 | 7.7s |
| Stag | 4 Raw Deer Meat, 50 Bone Fragments, 10 Animal Fat, 50 Leather, 25 Cloth | 12 | 7.7s |
| Boar | 8 Raw Pork, 50 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 20 Leather, 10 Cloth | 12 | 7.7s |
| Sheep | 12 Raw Mutton, 50 Bone Fragments, 20 Animal Fat, 20 Leather, 10 Cloth | 12 | 7.7s |
| Seagullgroup | 1 Raw Chicken Breast, 10 Bone Fragments, 5 Cloth, 6 Animal Fat | 8 | 4.9s |
| Chicken | 2 Raw Chicken Breast, 12 Bone Fragments, 6 Cloth | 10 | 6.3s |
| Snake | 4 Snake Venom, 10 Animal Fat | 14 | 9.1s |
Swings are counted once the animal is down.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn. A component in the recipe is charged as the first ingredient of its own recipe instead, or not at all when it has no recipe.
What Shears give back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 1 + 50% Metal Blade |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 1 + 20% Metal Blade |
| Green recycler | 50% | 1 Metal Blade |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 80% Metal Blade |
Shears break down into Metal Blade.
A recycler takes one at a time.
Recycling a whole pile? Run it through the Recycling Calculator
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “1 + 50%” means 1 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Shears is a gathering tool in the Tools category (item ID #-1953695556, console shortname shears). When harvesting, they clear a crocodile node in 13 swings while keeping 100% of the yield. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
Used to shear wool from sheep. More effective than other weapons and will never hurt a sheep.
Crafting Shears in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
When comparing Shears against related tools in Rust, craft copies once the blueprint is unlocked (15 seconds per craft) and recycle surplus spares at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base efficiency) rather than a safe-zone yellow recycler (forty percent efficiency) to maximize recovered materials.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shears | Tools | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Salvaged Axe | Tools | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 2 Blueprint Pages (tree) | Not recyclable |
| Chainsaw | Tools | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 10 Blueprint Pages (tree) | Not recyclable |
| Salvaged Icepick | Tools | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 3 Blueprint Pages (tree) | Not recyclable |
Compare Shears with closely related gathering tool sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Shears against every item in its inventory category, browse All 37 items in Tools.
Shears clear a crocodile carcass in 13 swings, about 8.4 seconds, and keep 100% of the yield in Rust. They belong to the Tools category under numeric ID -1953695556 across 37 tools, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -1953695556 1 across 37 published Tools entries.
Shears are crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 2 Metal Blade in Rust. They sit in the Tools catalog with item ID -1953695556 alongside 36 related tools, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -1953695556 1 across 37 published Tools entries (29 with crafting blueprints).
Shears recycle in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 1 Metal Blade. They are indexed under the Tools category alongside 36 other tools in Rust (item ID -1953695556) and despawn after 5 minutes (300 seconds) when left on the ground on default servers.
Shears take 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 3 in Rust. They belong to the Tools category under numeric ID -1953695556 across 37 tools and despawn after 5 minutes (300 seconds) when left on the ground on default servers.
A repair bench fixes Shears from broken for 12 Metal Fragments in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint or rare component body, scaling material cost to missing durability while permanently capping maximum condition by 20% across a full repair.
Every player starts with the Shears blueprint, so it never needs researching; a Research Table would still charge 10 scrap for it in Rust. They belong to the Tools category under numeric ID -1953695556 across 37 tools, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -1953695556 1.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, Shears despawn after 5 minutes by default. Moving them into a storage box, locker, or player inventory immediately cancels the ground despawn countdown, which the server assigns by item rarity tier to prevent dropped loot from lagging active worlds.
Shears have 32-bit signed item ID -1953695556 and shortname shears in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Tools category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn Shears in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give shears 1 or inventory.giveid -1953695556 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.