Wool

Wool is a block obtained from sheep that can be dyed in any of the sixteen different colors. It can be used as a crafting material and to block vibrations.

Breaking
Wool can be broken using any tool, but shears are the fastest tool to use.

Natural generation
All wool colors (except magenta, light blue, pink, and purple) generate naturally as part of structures within woodland mansions.
 * Woodland Mansion

White and yellow wool generate in shepherd houses, fletcher houses, and meeting points in plains villages.
 * Village

A block of light gray wool generates under the door in one type of small house in snowy tundra villages.

White wool generates as tents outside pillager outposts.
 * Pillager outpost

Gray wool appears on some walls and on the floors of long corridors at the corners of an ancient city. The wool damps vibrations, preventing activation of nearby sculk blocks. Ancient cities can also generate blue, cyan, and light blue wool.
 * Ancient city

Mob loot
shears on an adult sheep yields 1-3 wool. If unshorn, sheep drop 1 wool upon death. The wool dropped is the same color as the sheep. The drop rates are not affected by the Fortune or Looting enchantments. Baby sheep cannot be sheared.

White, light gray, gray, black, brown, and (rarely) pink wool can be found naturally on sheep. Getting a sheep of a different color requires dyeing the sheep.

Trading
$$, apprentice-level shepherd villagers have a 50% chance to sell one colored wool for an emerald, giving each wool color a $1/32$ (3.125%) chance of being offered.

$$, apprentice-level shepherd villagers have a $2/7$ chance of selling one or two colored wool for an emerald, giving each wool color a $1/56$ (roughly 1.786%) chance of being offered.

Villager gifts
$$, a shepherd villager may throw a block of wool of random color at a player under the Hero of the Village effect.

Usage
Wool comes in sixteen colors, which are white, orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime, pink, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, and black. Unlike stained glass and terracotta, the white variant serves as the undyed block. Wool of any color can be re-dyed into any other color.

Wool is weak, highly flammable, and offers little resistance against explosions.

Trading
Novice-level Shepherd villagers offer to buy 18 wool for an emerald, with the color being sold chosen randomly from white, gray, brown, or black.

The villager has a $3/4$ chance of offering the trade again with a different color.

Vibration occlusion
Wool can be used to block vibrations from reaching nearby sculk sensors. If a wool block is placed between a sensor and a vibration source, the sensor is not able to detect vibrations behind it. Similarly, if a wool block is placed between a sensor and a sculk shrieker, the sensor is unable to alert the shrieker.

Sculk sensors are not able to detect the placing and breaking of wool, as well as entities walking, sprinting, or jumping on top of it. They are also unable to detect items dropped on wool, or wool itself dropped in item form.

Similar to sculk sensors, wardens are also unable to detect everything wool-related as listed above.

Note blocks
Wool blocks can be placed under note blocks to produce guitar sounds.‌

Crafting ingredient
Any color of wool or wood can be used for paintings but it has no effect on the product's final appearance.

Fuel
$$, wool can be used as fuel in furnaces and their variants, smelting 0.5 items per wool block.

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Trivia

 * $1/32$, the data values for wool and their respective dyes are the inverse of each other. This is also true for stained glass, terracotta, shulker boxes, beds, banners, concrete powder, and concrete.