Minecraft

How to Craft Wool in Minecraft

To craft wool in Minecraft you need four string. Fill the four squares of the inventory 2×2, and one white wool comes out. Below are the items, the recipe, and where that string comes from.

Inventory (2×2)
String
String
String
String
Wool
Materials
Item Qty Where to get it
String 4 Kill spiders or cave spiders (0–2). Break cobwebs with a sword. Cats can drop string too.

Wool specs

Difficulty
Early game
Where it lives
Overworld pastures. White sheep are the common spawn.
Where to get it
Shear an adult sheep for 1–3 wool, or kill one for a single block. Four string also craft one white wool.
Item ID
minecraft:white_wool
Legacy item ID
minecraft:wool
Numerical ID
35
Stackable
Yes
Max stack
64
Renewable
Yes
Hardness
0.8
Blast resistance
0.8
Material
Wool
Diggable
Yes
Give command
/give @p minecraft:white_wool 1
Time to break
ItemTime to break
Hand 1.2s

Ingredient specs

String

Early game
Where to get it
Kill spiders or cave spiders (0–2). Break cobwebs with a sword. Cats can drop string too.
Where it lives
Overworld night spawns, mineshaft cobwebs, spider spawners.
Item ID
minecraft:string
Numerical ID
287
Stackable
Yes
Max stack
64
Renewable
Yes
Material
Item
Diggable
No

Four string

Kill spiders or cave spiders until four string drop. A sword on cobwebs also cuts string. Cats sometimes drop a piece. Keep four for one block. Shears on an adult sheep still give wool in the field if you already found a flock.

Fill the 2×2

Open the inventory. Put string in every square of the 2×2 crafting grid. One white wool appears on the right; take it. The same square works on a Crafting Table. Dye later if you want another color; this craft is the white block.

A bed, then a floor

Three matching wool over three planks make a bed. Two wool in a row make three carpets. Place the block anywhere; any tool breaks it and the wool drops. It burns if fire or lava touches it.

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