I accidentally created the same topic too, by mistake (I removed the info and flagged it).
Anyways, shears could cost around 15 gold ingots or 5 diamonds (Diamonds don’t have a wide variety of uses in shop, compared to the others (armor, bridge builders, iron axe and pickaxe, deepslate and that’s all.) Even emeralds seem to have more uses (or is it my idea?)).
WHY NOT???
Even though the only tool that affects wool breaking speed in this time in BedWars were swords, it still isn’t fast enough compared to shears.
I don’t know how many people know this but there was a thing in the sweat community called shear pvp, it was basically block pvp, but much more advanced and you used shears in order to break blocks for movement purposes, or to quickly damage someone and replace the block to avoid them damaging you as well, shears were also used to trap people and that was always fun. They should 100% make a return, tbh them removing shears probably upsets me the most more than any other item they removed.
I like the idea of Shears being added back, but 16 or 18 gold? I’d rather get some arrows or save up for a golden apple at that point.
Early in the game? Most people would already have deepslate by the point where you can get shears, so they would be useless there. Besides, if you don’t already have iron armor, it’s better to just save up for that. A more appropriate price for shears would be around 8 or 10 gold. Having them cost twice as much as arrows is ludicrous.