Wool

Wool
Type:	Solid
Mine with:	Hands
Physics:	None
Found naturally:	No
Renewable:	Yes
Identifier:	wool

Wool is a block that is often used as a building block for its variety of colors.

Obtaining

Wool can be broken with anything, but shears are fastest.

Sheep

Since wool is obtained from a mob, it makes it renewable.

When sheep are sheared, they will drop one to three pieces of wool. They will regrow their wool after a while, when they eat grass.

The sheep will also drop wool upon death if it still has its coat.

Crafting

Wool can be crafted using four pieces of string.

Colored wool can be crafted using a dye and white wool. The rainbow colored wool can be obtained by placing seven different colors of wool into a crafting table.

Wool blocks can be crafted back from their respective backdrop.

Usage

Wool blocks are weak, highly flammable, and offer little resistance against explosions. Their primary usage is as a decorative block.

Crafting Ingredient

Three pieces of wool (any combination of colors) are required in the recipe for the bed.

The afro is crafted out of 8 pieces of wool (any color).

A santa hat can be crafted using 4 pieces of wool (any color).

The wool backdrop can be crafted with any one wool block.

Data Values

Data Tags

Wool has a type data tag, which determines the color. The default type if none is specified is white.

Type	Preview
red
green
blue
brown
cyan
lightblue
lightgreen
magenta
orange
pink
purple
white
yellow
lightgray
gray
black
rainbow

History

Version	Date	Changes
Prior to 1.4.34	Day 12	Green cloth Although it is not explicitly mentioned, this is when seaweed was added, and it was not mentioned later.
1.7(probably)	Day 29	Added white cloth
1.18.3	Nov 04, 2011	Added 3 cloth types Yellow Red Orange New cloth textures
1.19.4_6	Unknown release date	Added blue wool (crafted with lapis lazuli)
1.22	Jun 29, 2012	7 new cloth colors Light blue Light green Pink Magenta Purple Cyan Brown
1.23	Oct 31, 2012	Fixed white cloth and red dye making pink cloth
1.24	Dec 22, 2012	White cloth is only dropped by sheep when they are killed or sheared.
1.25	May 11, 2013	Fixed white cloth not being dropped by sheep upon death
1.26.4	May 31, 2014	Added rainbow wool (inspired by WeaselZone)
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Renamed (and updated identifiers for) all "cloth" blocks to "wool"
1.28	Oct 08, 2016	Added 3 wool colors Black Gray Light gray Wools are now one item "give wool_blue" is now "give wool 1 0 {type:'blue'}" Sheep now spawn with different wool colors, and so they drop whatever wool color they have.
1.29	Sep 27, 2019	Wool now has a default type when given with commands (white)

Trivia

• Wool used to be known as cloth, but it was renamed in the 1.27 update.
• Due to there being 17 types of wool, there are 4,913 different ways to craft a bed using different combinations of wool, 83,521 for crafting a santa hat, and 6,975,757,441 for crafting an afro.

Gallery

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  From left to right: white, yellow, orange, red, brown, purple, magenta, pink, green, light green, teal, light blue, blue.

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  Rainbow wool placed down

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  Three pieces of rainbow wool

See also

• Dyes