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Red Carpet

Red Carpet is a thin red decorative floor covering crafted from Red Wool. Mobs cannot spawn on carpet, and it can be placed on llamas as decoration.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.6

Item ID

red_carpet

Red Carpet at a glance

Red Carpet comes from crafting, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. A slot of Red Carpet holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest. 3 Red Carpet buy one smelt, a backup fuel at best, 21 items per stack.

Red Carpet owes its colour to red dye. A beetroot, a poppy or a red tulip each give one, and a rose bush gives two. Breaking Red Carpet works against a hardness of 0.1. Explosives face the same figure, which is why Red Carpet is not a wall you rely on. It sits between Red Bed and Red Concrete Powder in Utility Blocks, number 265 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Red WoolRed Wool
Red WoolRed Wool
Red CarpetRed Carpet3

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Red Carpet burns for 3.35 seconds (67 ticks), so 3 Red Carpet smelt one item

Notes

Two matching-color wool yield three carpet. White carpet can also be made from white wool and re-dyed.

Frequently asked questions about Red Carpet

  1. Red Wool going into Red Carpet, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Red Carpet in Minecraft?

    Red Carpet is crafted from Red Wool at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 3.

  2. Red Carpet beside a furnace, which is where its 3.35 seconds of burning go

    Can Red Carpet be used as fuel?

    Red Carpet is a small fuel: 3.35 seconds apiece, against the 10 seconds a furnace spends on one item, so 3 of them cover a single smelt. Leftover time is not lost, so 3 Red Carpet really do add up to one full smelt.

  3. Red Carpet on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Red Carpet used for?

    Red Carpet is a thin red decorative floor covering crafted from Red Wool. Mobs cannot spawn on carpet, and it can be placed on llamas as decoration.

  4. The red dye that goes into Red Carpet, beside Red Carpet itself

    What dye does Red Carpet need?

    Red dye is what Red Carpet needs. A beetroot, a poppy or a red tulip each give one, and a rose bush gives two for Red Carpet.

  5. How long does Red Carpet take to break?

    0.1 hardness is one number on Red Carpet, and 0.1 blast resistance is the other number on it. When the two numbers on Red Carpet match, it offers nothing extra against TNT. No tool tag applies to Red Carpet, and no tool is needed to collect it either. Java 26.2 spells Red Carpet out this way, so nothing on it was guessed.

  6. 64 Red Carpet drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Red Carpet can you stack?

    64 Red Carpet fills a slot, and that slot costs 44 Red Wool, since each one returns 3, which is 22 crafts at the crafting table.

Building with it

Red Carpet is the one every player thinks of first: a runner up a staircase or down a hall. Poppies, beetroot and rose bushes all give red dye, so the wool is easy to keep coming, and two wool give three carpets, which covers more floor than a full block ever would.