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How to Craft White Wool in Minecraft

White Wool in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Building material. Minecraft has used the name White Wool since 1.11.

Feed a Crafting Table 4 String and White Wool comes back. The pattern to copy is four String in a 2x2 square. A single craft gives you 1 White Wool. It doubles as fuel at 100 ticks apiece, so 128 White Wool will smelt 64 items.

White Wool Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for White Wool is minecraft:white_wool. In commands the namespace may be left off, so white_wool works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p white_wool
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p white_wool 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve white_wool 1

Cheats have to be on for White Wool to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

White Wool can be crafted from string or obtained by shearing white sheep. It is used in many decorative recipes. White Wool uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name White Wool since 1.11, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with string (kill spiders or break cobwebs).

The Yield Per Stack

64 string is 16 crafts here, or 16 white wool once the grid stops. Craft 16 takes the last string, with nothing spare.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
StringStringString4xKill spiders or break cobwebs

Collect 4x String (kill spiders or break cobwebs) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    StringString4x String

  2. 2

    White Wool

Minecraft crafting recipe for White Wool: 4 x String in a crafting table, making 1 White Wool.

Tips & Notes

  • The whole pattern fits inside a 2x2 box, so you can make White Wool in the four crafting slots of your own inventory without placing a Crafting Table.
  • Shopping list: 4x String. Plan the String first: kill spiders or break cobwebs.

Uses for White Wool

  • Building material
  • Crafting beds, banners and paintings

What White Wool Goes Into

3 other recipes list White Wool as an ingredient.

White BannerCrafting TableWhite BedCrafting TableWhite CarpetCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for White Wool on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft White Wool in Minecraft?
4 String at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for White Wool. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one White Wool.
Where do you find the materials for White Wool?
White Wool draws its parts from several different places. String: kill spiders or break cobwebs.
How much White Wool do you get from one craft?
The White Wool recipe makes one White Wool per craft.
What is the item ID for White Wool in Minecraft?
White Wool is registered as minecraft:white_wool. Commands accept the short form white_wool as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for White Wool?
Use /give @p white_wool to put White Wool in your own inventory, or /give @p white_wool 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the White Wool recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on White Wool: both want 4 String at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added White Wool?
Minecraft 1.11 is the oldest release that calls the white wool by that name. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 String in, 1 White Wool out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.11 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 White Wool per craft against the stack size.

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