How do you get White Wool in Minecraft?

White Wool is crafted from String at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from shearing white sheep, White Wool from crafting from string, and White Wool from killing white sheep, not just the recipe above.

Can White Wool be used as fuel?

Burning White Wool works: 5 seconds each, though not one item at a time, since it takes 2 of them to finish a single smelt. Leftover time is not lost, so 2 White Wool really do add up to one full smelt.

Where do you find White Wool in chests?

White Wool is chest loot in one place and one only: village shepherd chests (about 56%, 1 to 8 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.

How many White Wool can you stack?

64 White Wool fill one slot, and filling it costs 256 String: 64 crafts. A double chest of White Wool comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

How long does White Wool take to break?

Hardness 0.8 is what the game stores for White Wool, next to blast resistance 0.8 on it. That is the default pairing for White Wool, and it means it has no special toughness either way. Nothing in the block data ties White Wool to a tool tier, and it breaks the same regardless. Java 26.2 records White Wool with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

What is White Wool used for?

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

Utility BlocksCraftable

White Wool

White Wool is the base wool block, obtained by shearing white sheep or crafted from four string. It can be dyed any of the 16 colors and is used in beds, banners and carpets.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

White Wool at a glance

White Wool, a block out of shearing white sheep, crafting from string, and killing white sheep, sits under Utility Blocks. A single slot takes 64 White Wool, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest. A furnace accepts White Wool, though 2 go into one smelt, 32 items to a stack.

White 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. The game rates White Wool at 0.8 hardness. An explosion meets the same 0.8, so White Wool is no safer against TNT than against a tool. Generated chests only ever hold White Wool in one place: village shepherd chests (about 56%, 1 to 8 at a time). It sits between White Tulip and Wither Rose in Utility Blocks, number 332 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
String
String
String
String
White Wool
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where White Wool has the grid for White Wool

Used to craft

Follow White Wool forward and you land on 3 recipes: 3 in Utility Blocks, the rest spread over that one category, White Banner through White Carpet. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with White Wool in it.

How to obtain

Shearing white sheep
Crafting from string
Killing white sheep

Mobs that drop it

Killing a White leaves 1 behind.

Fuel value

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

Notes

The only wool color craftable from string. Dye it to produce any other color.

Frequently asked questions about White Wool

How do you get White Wool in Minecraft?
White Wool is crafted from String at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from shearing white sheep, White Wool from crafting from string, and White Wool from killing white sheep, not just the recipe above.
Which mobs drop White Wool?
Killing a White leaves 1 behind.
Can White Wool be used as fuel?
Burning White Wool works: 5 seconds each, though not one item at a time, since it takes 2 of them to finish a single smelt. Leftover time is not lost, so 2 White Wool really do add up to one full smelt.
Where do you find White Wool in chests?
White Wool is chest loot in one place and one only: village shepherd chests (about 56%, 1 to 8 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.
How many White Wool can you stack?
64 White Wool fill one slot, and filling it costs 256 String: 64 crafts. A double chest of White Wool comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
How long does White Wool take to break?
Hardness 0.8 is what the game stores for White Wool, next to blast resistance 0.8 on it. That is the default pairing for White Wool, and it means it has no special toughness either way. Nothing in the block data ties White Wool to a tool tier, and it breaks the same regardless. Java 26.2 records White Wool with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.
What is White Wool used for?
White Wool is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into White Banner, White Bed, and White Carpet.

Building with it

White Wool is the wool the game gives you for free: sheep grow it, shears take it, and the sheep grows it back after eating grass. That makes it the only block in the colour set that is genuinely renewable without a dye, and it is the base every other wool colour starts from.

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