How to Get Wool in Minecraft (4 Ways)
There are numerous blocks and items in Minecraft, and they are sorted in their own categories. Some are functional blocks, colored blocks, building blocks, wile others are mob drops, redstone components, etc. It’s rare that one block can be included in multiple categories. One of those is definitely wool. It has many uses and is regularly needed in your blocky world. So, in this guide, let’s look at all the ways you can get wool in Minecraft.
Wool is quite an important block in Minecraft. You can use it in building, crafting other wool blocks, or even preventing sculk sensors from detecting certain vibrations. You can also dye the wool block in 16 different colors. Wool is a common block and easy to get in Minecraft.
There are various different ways you can get wool in Minecraft, so let’s go over all of them and you can choose which one suits you most.
1. Get Wool from Sheep in Minecraft
The fastest and most obvious method to get wool in Minecraft is through sheep. In the early game, when you don’t have access to many precious resources, you can obtain wool by killing sheep. You will only get one piece of wool, and it will have the same color as the sheep, so it can be either white, light gray, gray, black, brown or pink.
Once you get some iron, you can also make a shear and use it on sheeps. They willdrop 1-3 woolthis way. This is the recommended way, since you don’t kill the sheep so you can continue breeding them and get a lot more wool. Baby sheep don’t drop anything when killed and cannot be sheared.
2. Craft Wool in Minecraft
If you have built perhaps a general mob farm in Minecraft and need wool in large quantities, you can also craft it using strings. Place four string in yourcrafting tableor 2×2 crafting grid to make one white wool block.
3. Trade with Shepherd Villagers
Shepherds as novices buy wool from the player, but at the apprentice level they have a chance to sell it to them. This way, you can buy every single color wool for an emerald.
4. Find Wool in Minecraft
Surprisingly, there are plenty of places where you can just find wool blocks in your Minecraft world. It generates as part of a couple of structures and in a particular chest. If you want to gather a bunch of wool, remember that the preferred tool isshears.
If you explore a woodland mansion, you will find a fewstrange statues of a cat, chicken, and an illagermade out of wool. Besides those, there are also rooms with piles of blue wool, beds made out of white wool, and a room that represents thestronghold in Minecraft. There are carpets of multiple colors throughout this entire building too.
In plains villages, you will come across white and yellow wool in the shepherd’s and Fletcher’s houses, as well as some overhangs covering meeting points made out of them. Moreover, one type of house in a snowy village generates a block of light gray wool. You are likely to find some wool of naturally spawned sheep’s colors in the shepherd’s chest.
Apart from their big outpost, pillagers have tents surrounding it made out of white wool. You can break the wool blocks and collect them for use in your adventures.
Wool has some very useful and interesting properties when it comes to sculk sensors. That’s why it’s present inancient cities in Minecraft. You will find gray wool on some walls and as part of the floor in long corridors. Furthermore, there is a smaller piece of this structure that generates with cyan, light blue, and blue wool. Carpets of a couple different colors are also generated in this structure.
Frequently Asked Questions
No, this is not possible. You can use the string to craft wool, but not vice versa.
Radojka Travar
I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.
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