Talk:Wool

[edit] Boat padding

According to this thread (http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=37062) cloth can be used as padding for boats. SMA11784 15:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Ill check it out.Toadbert

I dont think it works.Toadbert

It most certainly does! Try building a "shore" of cloth, then ramming it. Sterfried

[edit] Multiple wool colours

Discussion should commence on what to do about multiple wool colors since there seems to be editors that continously attempt to create multiple wool pages for the now re-included wool spectrum. As of now I'm keeping an eye across the site for links to multiple colors and redirecting them here. Unless I'm in the minority I'll continue to do this. St. Fenix 05:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

You're right to do so. The only difference between the blocks themselves is colour; in terms of flammability, ease of mining etc, they are very much one and the same. Dyes themselves are a different story due to differing methods of acquirement, but one wool block is the same as another. Everything else should redirect here. SteveZombie 20:21, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

That's right, there's no need for a whole page for each color. Niklink 21:52, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Remove the tutorial video

The guy who made and put the video on the page might have felt that it was necessary to explain how to dye, but that's what we have the Wool Dyes and the Crafting page for, right? I think we should remove it, but I want to know the general opinion on this. Niklink 21:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

agreed, I'll throw my vote in for a remove. I see no sense in teaching someone how to craft on "every" page. -St. Fenix (User•Talk) 22:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Wool Damage Counts Inaccurate

The table under the trivia section appears to be incorrect. It seems that the colors need to be moved over one cell to the right to be correct. Can someone confirm this? IKaleb 02:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

This is true i tried to get the "blank purple wool" and when i went into my inventory in MC it was black wool the one in the block before. I did most of the colors and it seems to be true the whole way through. although i CAN see why there would be confusion with the numbers since While Wool DOES show as 0 damage when you look at it in an inventory editor. ToraOkami303 8:05 1/26/2011 Eastern Time

Purple was missing, is it better now ? – Scaler (t) 13:16, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah i just noticed that too, I wasn't looking carefully enough before to notice ToraOkami303 8:29 1/26/2011 Eastern Time

[edit] GIF animation

We should have one showing the different colors (as seen in classic and beta) as the symbol for it. Arcticwolf15 04:37, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Brown Wool

I think this is because someone tried to add brown, but then they were all like "Hey we don't take kindly to brown things round here" and removed it. Kookas 19:04, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Animation

I think we should use an animation for the wool dying recipes, instead of a giant list. JesusChrist666 00:47, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, I'll work on that now. Alphap 02:18, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

That'll look much too messy, plus they use different ingredients so the ingredient list would be massive anyway. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 02:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Well okay, but I don't see how it will look messy - the list of tables as it is now is longer than the list of ingredients that we'd use otherwise. I think it also wouldn't hurt to just replace it with "Wool + Any dye", and/or just have a prose list of the dyes after the table. Alphap 07:12, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

A long list of ingredients will stretch the cell vertically, which will look rather awful. The other idea is completely inconsistent with every other crafting recipe on the wiki. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 08:40, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

ok i didnt know where to write this but i think this should be put on the page as a glitch or somthing... i died a sheep blue and then died it green then when i hit it i did not get any blue idk or any mixing of colors not that im sure that those two can. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Redblud9 ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 14:27, 25 March 2011. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

Wait, are you saying that you DYED a sheep blue, then green, and then you punched it and didn't get any blue wool? Dyeing a sheep REPLACES the current wool color, instead of mixing it. It's not a bug.--SpyroCraft007 was here 01:42, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Pink Sheep

This article currently states "There are also pink sheep, although they are quite rare.[citation needed]". Is citation required for the existence of pink sheep, or their rarity? If it's the former, I've spotted one in the wild and have the screenshots, are they of any use to this article? Zoe 10:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

No, I think it has to be an actual video since screenshots can show suspicion that it's a sheep dyed in pink. Shock394 18:25, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Here's some code from EntitySheep:

public static int func_21070_a(Random random)
   {
       int i = random.nextInt(100);
       if(i < 5){return 15;}
       if(i < 10){return 7;}
       if(i < 15){return 8;}
       if(i < 18){return 12;}
       return random.nextInt(500) != 0 ? 0 : 6;
   }

There's a list of RGB values, right after this snippet, in which 15, 7, 8 and 12 all refer to black, dark gray, gray and brown. That 6 at the end is pink. Specifically this means there is a 5% chance of black, dark gray and gray, a 3% chance of brown and a 1% chance of pink. -Alphap^T~C 22:33, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

You've got the percentages a bit wrong. Of the 87% that aren't caught by the grey/dark grey/brown/black cases, only 0.2% will be pink, so it's actually a 0.174% chance of getting a pink sheep while the rest are white. (That is, according to the above code; I don't know if it's true or not... Edit: Updated the numbers in the article since they were already there). Agrona 19:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Hostile Mobs Spwning on Wool

Can i get some confirmation on Hostile Mobs Spawning on wool? Using TooManyItems, i made a house with carpet flooring(Light Gray Wool). Placed a Bed in it and slept. Regardless of how much light i have in there (torches, glowstone, jackolanturns) They always spawn next to my bed and wake me up. So does these Hostile Mob spawn on Wool Regardless of light level?--Teoh 23:24, 19 May 2011 (UTC) Is your bed next to a wall? Timberdoodle 01:18, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

No the bed was not next to a wall. it was a 8x8 room which make up i think a 6x6 wool flooring. the bed is in the middle. i used an Xray texturepack to check for anything under my room but there was nothing there. If it would be any help, it was a snow biome. This (bug?)has stopped happening recently. However im still curious as to what happened.--Teoh 20:13, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Break and replace bed. Hostile mobs only spawn on opaque block. Wool is an opaque block. Calinou - talk × contribs » 20:37, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Wool Block Recipe Layout

The recipe for wool blocks changed in 1.6.6. I noticed that other 2x2 recipes on other pages tended to put the ingredients on the bottom left. Is that the preferred style? This page has the string items on the top left.--Zeta0134 13:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

whoever puts the recipe down on the page pretty much decides, which makes it kind of inconsistent in times yeah.Toadbert

Try to at least keep it the same as on crafting, personally I prefer going from the bottom-centre, then to the left; so something that takes 2 horizontal slots would be on the bottom-left and bottom-centre squares. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 10:44, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Number of wool blocks dropped when using shears

The article still said 1 - 3, but I've consistently been getting between 2 and 4, and never once have gotten 1, so I changed the article. Can someone confirm this, though? Swenson 19:37, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

[edit] The tool for wool

Shears dig wool faster than any other tool,However I couldnt edit this.Could someone change it?Im sure that they do,If you dont believe me,Try it yourself.grantcop2

[edit] Any way to make wool inflammable?

i'm trying to make a lava pool and lining the outside with black and yellow wool, but the lava burns it. Any ideas?

Add a transparent block to all 6 applicable sides of the wool - torches would probably be best. Hope it helps. Shellface 18:43, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

External modifications can also prevent lava creating fire, such as WorldGuard. Or, you could use a texture pack to swap the textures with non-flammable blocks. Calinou - talk × contribs » 20:59, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

thanks, i'll look into that

Inflammable means flammable. 128.61.118.34 16:37, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Regrow Wool

I'm searching for a mod that enables sheep to regrow their wool. Does anyone know of such a mod?

  Since 1.1 sheep will naturally regrow their wool by eating grass (NOT tall grass).
Keeping the last color they had, including if you painted them, making it a lot easier
to make colored wool structures on survival by keeping a sheep farm.
200.201.189.103 19:54, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

[edit] ok...

Wool with damage value 16 is actually the texture for empty places in the terrain.png file... Is it real or just someone who thought "Wow, it would be cool if this weird pink texture was in game!"?213.112.57.71 14:13, 4 April 2012 (UTC)hurpDurp

[edit] A little question about renewablility of wool...

Well, so it says in the article that Magenta, Light Blue, Cyan, Purple and Blue Wool are not renewable. Basically that's correct, as all of these five colors contain non-renewable Lapis Lazuli. As of the Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 though, sheep can be breeded and the lambs will be colored the same way as their parents, and as of 1.1.0, sheep also regrow wool by eating grass and tall grass and keep their color with that, which theoretically would only require one or two uses of the Magenta, Light Blue, Cyan, Purple, Blue or any other dye to produce an endless amount of all 16 wool colors, as long as Wheat and/or Grass are available. Shouldn't all wool types have the Renewable status then? I mean, the five dyes itself are not renewable, but the wool is. smwforever45 01:16, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Seconding this point. Shearing wool is renewable since Iron Golems made Iron, and therefore shears, renewable; but even before that, you could get 16 different colored sheep, and breed them selectively until you had 2 of each color, then create pens for each color. Then by breeding and killing whichever color of sheep you wanted wool for, you could get infinite wool.

Also, if renewability of wool depends on renewability of the dye, then brown wool should be marked as nonrenewable, because cocoa beans are. --ThranMaru 16:44, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Ummmm, no. Brown sheep occur naturally as of Beta 1.3, so you don't even need the dye for that type of wool.

Anyway, I'm gonna change it now. Let's see what happens. smwforever45 18:06, 15 April 2012 (UTC)