Wool

Wool is a placeable block added in Classic 0.0.20a, having one texture that is used on all sides of the block. It is a very weak, flammable block, and does not offer much resistance against explosions. Wool can be obtained from Sheep or by combining nine pieces of string together. A sword will speed up the mining of wool slightly, but it can easily be mined without the use of tools. Like Soul Sand, wool can be used to absorb some impact made from boats colliding into it at high speeds.

As of Beta 1.2, wool can be colored using various dyes. It can be dyed into 15 different colors, all of which are also available in in Creative mode.

Currently, wool's only crafting use is for making Paintings.

History


In Classic mode, wool was a set of 16 identical blocks with different colors, including three shades of gray. The wool was added for the creation of Pixel art, and to make colorful buildings and structures. Another common use is to make rainbows, sometimes in the form of towers or carpeting.

These colored wool, not including white, were left unobtainable in the game during Survival Test and Indev unless they were pre-placed into the map file. It was removed completely in Infdev. Placing these blocks on the map would cause the game client to crash, since the blocks no longer existed.

Since the Minecraft Beta 1.2 update, colored wool has been fixed and added once again. Colored wool can now be obtained when combined with colored Dye. Light Gray wool is dropped by light gray sheep. Black wool can also be obtained from black sheep. Dark gray sheep are also seen.

Sheep can also have their wool dyed by directly using dye (right clicking) on them. When a dyed Sheep is attacked, it will drop colored wool in the same way normal sheep drop their wool. This can be useful because you can obtain multiple colored wool blocks from a single Sheep, instead of getting just one block from the crafting process.

Trivia

 * Before actual Leather was added, wool was used to craft Leather Armor.
 * You can find sheep with light gray, gray and black wool.
 * If you use a colored wool block to mine, gray chunks will still fly out of it.
 * Hitting colored wool will still cause white bits to peal off, instead of its current color.

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