Useful Shears is a Vintage Story mod by Cheeki. Useful Shears increases tree seed drops when cutting leaves with shears, while leaving hand and other-tool drop rates unchanged.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod suits players who use shears for faster leaf clearing but find replanting trees too unreliable. It is especially useful for gathering Crimson Maple seeds.
What Useful Shears adds
Useful Shears changes only the seed-drop chance for leaves harvested with shears. Breaking leaves by hand or using other tools keeps the original game behavior.
For Crimson Maple, the seed chance rises from 3.25% to 10%. The description notes that modded tree species may not be affected, so the change is primarily intended for the specified vanilla tree.
Where to download Useful Shears
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.