✂️ Runics Useful Shears — Summary

🔗 Links
Discord
https://discord.gg/pH2pU2UCqf

Runics Useful Shears upgrades vanilla shears into a precision, area-based utility tool for clearing, harvesting, and managing soft world elements.

🎯 Core Purpose

Turn shears from single-target use into a controlled multi-target cleanup and harvesting tool, while staying fully survival-balanced.

🔧 Main Systems

🌿 1. Ground Shearing

Clears grass, flowers, and small foliage in an area
Does not break terrain blocks
Drops items normally (seeds, flowers, etc.)

🍃 2. Foliage / Tree Shearing

Breaks leaves, vines, and soft plant blocks
Uses a chain system (like Timber)
Does not affect logs or wood

🐑 3. Animal Proxy Shearing

Shearing one animal shears nearby valid animals
Works on sheep and other valid shearable entities
Respects vanilla conditions

🐝 4. Beehive Proxy

Shearing one full hive harvests nearby full hives
Respects:
- honey level requirements
- bee anger mechanics
- campfire rules

❄️ 5. Snow Clearing

Clears snow layers in an area
Does not break full snow blocks

🕸️ 6. Cobweb Clearing

Breaks connected cobwebs in a chain
Smooth, controlled, no lag spikes

⚙️ Core Design Rules

Only affects soft materials
Uses player inventory + durability
Respects vanilla mechanics
No terrain breaking
No overlap with:
- Mining (ores)
- Timber (logs)

🎮 UI / System Integration

Full Runics App integration
Timber-style settings page
Bottom buttons:
- Themes
- Reset (with confirmation popup)
- Done
Includes:
- highlight system
- color picker
- popout preview
- UI visibility toggle

🧠 Identity

“A multi-target utility tool for clearing, harvesting, and managing soft world elements.”

🔥 Ecosystem Fit

Completes your tool lineup:

Timber → logs
Mining → ores
Farming → crops
Shears → foliage, animals, and soft materials