# Electric Shears Inconsistent

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/electric-shears-inconsistent/23351>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/electric-shears-inconsistent/23351 "2020-04-21T21:13:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![WOGamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WOGamer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/WOGamer)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/electric-shears-inconsistent/23351/1 "2020-04-21T21:13:09Z")

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Found a farm with sheep and wanted to try shearing them so I made a pair of electric shears.  
The shears are weird, they have built in 100 unit battery that’s not unloadable but I modified it with a UPS conversion and now it says UPS (x/100) like a smartphone.

Maybe they missed an update pass when the newer battery system got implemented?  
The data for them appears to be in \data\json\items\tool\pets.json  
{  
“id”: “elec\_shears”,  
“type”: “TOOL”,  
“name”: { “str”: “electric\_shears”, “str\_pl”: “electric\_shears” },  
“description”: “These electric shears can be used to shear animals quicker.”,  
“weight”: “1200 g”,  
“volume”: “1200 ml”,  
“price”: 2400,  
“to\_hit”: -1,  
“bashing”: 2,  
“material”: [“plastic”, “steel”],  
“symbol”: “;”,  
“color”: “dark\_gray”,  
“qualities”: [[ “SHEAR”, 3] ],  
“ammo”: “battery”,  
“initial\_charges”: 100,  
“max\_charges”: 100,  
“charges\_per\_use”: 25  
}  
It doesn’t look quite like the entries for electronics.json for example.

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/electric-shears-inconsistent/23351/2 "2020-04-22T00:10:07Z")

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They were [added recently](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/38866) (after the battery system change). I guess it was just overlooked.

PS: Since that’s a base game feature, I’ve moved this topic over to the garage.

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**Author:** ![WOGamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WOGamer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/WOGamer)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/electric-shears-inconsistent/23351/3 "2020-04-22T10:46:33Z")

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There’s also an “\_” in the name instead of a space.  
And they don’t actually need any charge to shear sheep.

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/electric-shears-inconsistent/23351/4 "2020-04-22T18:34:38Z")

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> [@WOGamer](#):
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> There’s also an “\_” in the name instead of a space.

If I’ve seen right, this was [fixed](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/39680) four days ago.

> [@WOGamer](#):
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> And they don’t actually need any charge to shear sheep.

Not sure if that was fixed too. I’ll add it to my checklist.