Wool

Wool is a placeable block added in Classic 0.0.20a having one texture that is put onto 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 and by combining nine strings together. A sword will slightly speed up mining of wool but it can be easily be mined without using any Tools. Like Soul Sand, wool can be used to absorb some impact made from boats colliding with it at high speeds.

As of Beta 1.2, wool can be coloured using dye. It can be coloured into 15 different colours, all of which are availiable in in creative mode.

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

History


Back in Classic mode, wool was a set of 16 identical blocks with different of colours and having three shades of grey. 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 coloured wool except white were left unobtainable in the game in Survival Test and Indev unless they are pre-placed into the map file. It was removed completely in Infdev where the game client will crash as these blocks do not exist any more.

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 Grey wool is dropped by light grey coloured sheep. Black wool can also be obtained from black sheep.

Trivia

 * Before actual Leather was added, wool was used to craft Leather Armor.
 * Also you can find sheep with black wool.

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