How do you get Black Wool in Minecraft?

Black Wool is obtained through shearing black sheep, Black Wool from applying Black Dye to white wool, and Black Wool from killing black sheep. No crafting grid makes Black Wool, and 3 recipes take it as an ingredient.

How long does Black Wool take to break?

Black Wool has hardness 0.8, and it has blast resistance 0.8. Most blocks share the pattern on Black Wool, and it is not one of the exceptions. No tool tag applies to Black Wool, and no tool is needed to collect it either. Java 26.2 holds Black Wool at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.

Can Black Wool be used as fuel?

It burns, but thinly: 5 seconds per Black Wool against the 10 a furnace needs, so 2 Black Wool go into one smelted item. What is left of a Black Wool stays in the furnace, so no part of Black Wool goes to waste.

Where do you find Black Wool in chests?

Black Wool is chest loot in one place and one only: village shepherd chests (about 33%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

What is Black Wool used for?

Black Wool is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Black Banner, Black Bed, and Black Carpet.

How many Black Wool can you stack?

A slot of 64 Black Wool burns for 32 smelted items, and that is what the stack is worth as fuel. A double chest of Black Wool comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

Utility Blocks

Black Wool

Black Wool is a black dyeable block obtained by shearing black sheep or by dyeing white wool with Black Dye. It is used to craft beds, banners and carpets.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Black Wool at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Black Wool: a block out of shearing black sheep, applying Black Dye to white wool, and killing black sheep. A single slot takes 64 Black Wool, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest. It burns in a furnace, but a single smelt eats 2, so a stack of 64 covers 32 items.

Black Wool is also a hub ingredient, feeding 3 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. Breaking Black Wool works against a hardness of 0.8. It takes the same 0.8 from an explosion. Generated chests only ever hold Black Wool in one place: village shepherd chests (about 33%, 1 to 3 at a time). It sits between Black Stained Glass and Blackstone in Utility Blocks, number 41 of 340 there.

Used to craft

From Black Banner to Black Carpet, 3 recipes use Black Wool, and 3 of those sit in Utility Blocks. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Black Wool in it.

How to obtain

Shearing black sheep
Applying Black Dye to white wool
Killing black sheep

Mobs that drop it

Killing a Black leaves 1 behind.

Fuel value

Black Wool burns for 5 seconds (100 ticks), so 2 Black Wool smelt one item

Notes

Craft by combining a White Wool block with Black Dye (any wool color may be re-dyed). This dyeing recipe is not in the crafting data, so no recipe is listed here.

Frequently asked questions about Black Wool

How do you get Black Wool in Minecraft?
Black Wool is obtained through shearing black sheep, Black Wool from applying Black Dye to white wool, and Black Wool from killing black sheep. No crafting grid makes Black Wool, and 3 recipes take it as an ingredient.
How long does Black Wool take to break?
Black Wool has hardness 0.8, and it has blast resistance 0.8. Most blocks share the pattern on Black Wool, and it is not one of the exceptions. No tool tag applies to Black Wool, and no tool is needed to collect it either. Java 26.2 holds Black Wool at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.
Which mobs drop Black Wool?
Killing a Black leaves 1 behind.
Can Black Wool be used as fuel?
It burns, but thinly: 5 seconds per Black Wool against the 10 a furnace needs, so 2 Black Wool go into one smelted item. What is left of a Black Wool stays in the furnace, so no part of Black Wool goes to waste.
Where do you find Black Wool in chests?
Black Wool is chest loot in one place and one only: village shepherd chests (about 33%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.
What is Black Wool used for?
Black Wool is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Black Banner, Black Bed, and Black Carpet.
How many Black Wool can you stack?
A slot of 64 Black Wool burns for 32 smelted items, and that is what the stack is worth as fuel. A double chest of Black Wool comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

Building with it

Black Wool comes either from a black sheep, which spawns rarely, or from dyeing white wool with an ink sac or a wither rose. Breeding two black sheep keeps the colour running without dye at all, which is why players who need a lot of it start a small flock rather than a squid farm.

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