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Wool is a block derived from sheep that can be dyed in any of the 16 different colors, which are white, orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime green, pink, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, and black.
Obtaining
Wool can be broken using any tool, but shears are the fastest tool to use.
| Block | Wool | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.8 | |
| Breaking time (secs) | ||
| Default | 1.2 | |
| Shears | 0.25 | |
Sheep
1 to 3 wool is harvested by using shears on an adult sheep. If unshorn, sheep will drop 1 wool upon death. The wool dropped will be the same color as the sheep's wool. The drop rates are not affected by the Fortune or Looting enchantments.
White, light gray, gray, black, brown, and pink wool can be found naturally on sheep. The rest of the colors require dyeing sheep.
Natural generation
Naturally occurring black wool with torch es on them.
Black wool can also be found naturally in villages as part of a streetlight-like structure where they lie on top of three fence posts, surrounded by 4 torches. All wool colors except for magenta, pink, and purple generate naturally as part of structures within woodland mansions.
White and Yellow wool generate in shepherd houses in plains villages.[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).]
White wool generate as woolen tents in pillager outposts.[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).]
Trading
Shepherd villagers sell each separate color of wool for a price of 1 to 2 emeralds for one wool as part of their tier 2 trades.
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Wool | String | ||
| Dyed Wool | White Wool + Matching Colored Dye |
[Java and Legacy Console editions only] | |
| Wool | Any Wool + Matching Dye |
[Bedrock Edition only] | |
| White Wool | Any Dyed Wool + Bleach |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] |
Usage
Wool blocks are weak, highly flammable, and offer little resistance against explosions. Their primary usage is as a decorative block.
Trading
Shepherd villagers buy 16 to 22 white wool for 1 emerald as part of their tier 1 trades.
Crafting ingredient
Any color of wool or wood can be used for paintings but it has no effect on the product's final appearance.
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner | Matching Wool + Stick |
Once the banner is crafted, its base color cannot be changed.[Java Edition only] | |
| Bed | Matching Wool + Any Planks |
The wool color must match. The planks can be different. | |
| Carpet | Matching Wool | ||
| Painting | Stick + Any Wool |
Fuel
Wool can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per wool block.[Computer and Legacy Console editions only]
Data values
ID
Wool/ID
Block data
In Bedrock Edition, wool uses the following data values:
| Data value | Description | Color Code[note 1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec | Hex | old | new | ||
| 0 | 0x0 | White wool | #DDDDDD |
#E9ECEC | |
| 1 | 0x1 | Orange wool | #DB7D3E |
#F07613 | |
| 2 | 0x2 | Magenta wool | #B350BC |
#BD44B3 | |
| 3 | 0x3 | Light blue wool | #6B8AC9 |
#3AAFD9 | |
| 4 | 0x4 | Yellow wool | #B1A627 |
#F8C627 | |
| 5 | 0x5 | Lime wool | #41AE38 |
#70B919 | |
| 6 | 0x6 | Pink wool | #D08499 |
#ED8DAC | |
| 7 | 0x7 | Gray wool | #404040 |
#3E4447 | |
| 8 | 0x8 | Light gray wool | #9AA1A1 |
#8E8E86 | |
| 9 | 0x9 | Cyan wool | #2E6E89 |
#158991 | |
| 10 | 0xA | Purple wool | #7E3DB5 |
#792AAC | |
| 11 | 0xB | Blue wool | #2E388D |
#35399D | |
| 12 | 0xC | Brown wool | #4F321F |
#724728 | |
| 13 | 0xD | Green wool | #35461B |
#546D1B | |
| 14 | 0xE | Red wool | #963430 |
#A12722 | |
| 15 | 0xF | Black wool | #191616 |
#141519 | |
- ↑ Wool has a mottled pattern. These are the average RGB color values for the default texture.
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Rainbow Collection | Gather all 16 colors of wool. | All the colors of wool do not have to be in the inventory at the same time, but must have been picked up by the player at least once. | 30G | Silver | ||
Video
- Note: This video was made before the carpet and the banner were implemented in version 1.6 and 1.8, as it states wool has two crafting recipes instead of four in the recent updates. Also, the wool texture has been changed in 1.12.
Wool/video
History
| classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2009 | Notch shows interest in adding multiple colors of cloth. | ||||
| 0.0.20a | |||||
| 0.27 SURVIVAL TEST | Added sheep, which will drop white cloth. | ||||
| indev | |||||
| 0.31 (January 30, 2010) | Cloth can now be crafted using four string. | ||||
| February 12, 2010, 1 | Sheep will now drop white, gray and light gray cloth. | ||||
| February 18, 2010 | Cloth can now be used to craft armor. | ||||
| February 23, 2010 | Cloth is now used to craft paintings. | ||||
| Sheep will only drop gray cloth. | |||||
| infdev | |||||
| June 27, 2010 | Removed all cloth colors except white. | ||||
| Sheep will now drop white cloth instead of gray. | |||||
| alpha | |||||
| v1.0.8 | Changed the recipe of cloth/leather armor from cloth to leather. | ||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.2 | |||||
| Renamed cloth to wool. | |||||
| Added 15 dyes; white sheep can now be dyed by using on them while holding any dye. | |||||
| Light gray, gray, and black sheep will now rarely spawn, dropping the corresponding colored wool. | |||||
| 1.3 | Wool is now used to craft beds. | ||||
| 1.4 | Brown and pink sheep will now rarely spawn, dropping the corresponding colored wool. | ||||
| 1.6.6 | Changed the crafting recipe of wool, reducing the amount of string required from 9 to 4 pieces. | ||||
| 1.7 | Added shears to shear sheep without hurting them, dropping 2-4 wool. | ||||
| Sheep will no longer drop wool when hit, albeit they drop one wool when being killed when they are unsheared. | |||||
| 1.8 | ? | Villages will now generate with lamp posts containing black wool. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | ? | Sheep will now graze grass blocks and eat grass to regain their wool, keeping the color they had before shearing. | |||
| As a counterbalance, shearing sheep will now yield 1-3 wool instead of 2-4. | |||||
| 1.2.4 | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | 54 orange wool and 1 blue wool will now naturally generate as part of desert temples. | |||
| Wool of any color can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 14–21 wool for 1 emerald. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w16a | Wool is now used to craft carpets. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Trading changed: shepherd villagers now buy 16–22 white wool for 1 emerald. They also sell 1 wool for 1–2 emeralds, 1 offer for each color. Farmer villagers no longer trade wool. | |||
| 14w03a | Desert temples will now generate with stained clay instead of wool. | ||||
| 14w30a | Wool is now used to craft banners. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w33a | Wool can now be used to fuel furnaces. | |||
| 16w39a | Various wool colors will now generate within structures inside woodland mansions. | ||||
| 16w44a | White wool is now called "White Wool" rather than just "Wool". | ||||
| 1.12 | January 23, 2017 | Jeb tweets a preview of changes to the wool color palette, adding that "the texture itself may need work." | |||
| January 27, 2017 | Jeb tweets another screenshot of further changes to the wool colors, alongside the new concrete blocks. "The noise needs some tweaking," he adds. | ||||
| 17w06a | 1.12 wool color spectrum. The color spectrum has been changed for a second time, resulting in new textures for all wool and wool-related items. | ||||
| 17w17a | Wool can now be used to play the guitar, if they are under note blocks. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different block states for the wool ID have been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 35. | |||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Wool is no longer used to craft carpets. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added wool (all 16 colors, not all are obtainable). | ||||
| 0.2.0 | Added the ability to shear sheep. | ||||
| 0.4.0 | Added a crafting recipe for wool. | ||||
| Wool is now used to craft beds. | |||||
| 0.5.0 | Wool is now used to craft paintings. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Red wool can now be used to craft red carpet. | |||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Black wool now naturally spawns in villages. | |||
| The remaining carpet colors can now be crafted using wool. | |||||
| 0.9.3 | Wool now has smooth lighting. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | shepherd villagers now buy 16–22 white wool for 1 emerald. They also sell 1 wool for 1–2 emeralds, 1 offer for each color. | |||
| 1.1 | January 27, 2017 | Jeb tweets a picture of new wool textures beside the concrete blocks mentioning that they are a work in progress for Pocket Edition 1.1. | |||
| alpha 1.1.0.0 | 1.12 wool color spectrum. The color spectrum has been changed, resulting in new textures for all wool and wool-related items. | ||||
| Added beds in 16 colors. As a result, the wool has to match in order for the bed to be crafted. | |||||
| Various wool colors will now generate within structures inside woodland mansions. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Wool can now used to craft banners. | |||
| beta 1.2.0.7 | Any color of wool can now be dyed. | ||||
| 1.4 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Bleach can now be used to make colored wool turn into white wool. | |||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.9 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Regular "Wool" has now been renamed to "White Wool". | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Patch s1 | Added wool (all 16 colors). |
| TU9 | Sheep can now regrow their wool by eating grass or tall grass. | ||||
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | Patch s3 | 1.12 wool color spectrum. The color spectrum has been changed, resulting in new textures for all wool and wool-related items. |
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added Wool. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Wool" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- The damage 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.
- White wool can be crafted together with bone meal, but this simply wastes the bone meal.
- On the Legacy Console Edition tutorial world, the Minecraft Logo seen in the sky is made of stone bricks and black wool.
Gallery
The four iterations of the wool block.
References
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Wool" – Minecraft.net, November 17, 2017
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/240381873480687616
![A zombie holding a piece of wool.[2]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/c/ce/Zombie_wool.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/120?cb=20220604154223)