Overview
Gray Wool is one of the 16 variants of White Wool: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the White Wool page.
Gray Wool counts as a coloured block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Gray Wool has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 0.8 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.
Any tool works, and so do bare hands. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A blast resistance of 0.8 means a single creeper will clear it away.
It stacks to 64. You make it with Gray Dye and White Wool. 4 recipes call for it, including Gray Banner, Gray Bed, Gray Carpet and 1 more.
About the gray set
Properties
Blast resistance on Gray Wool is 0.8, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. It renews, so a single world will never run out. It catches easily (encouragement 30, burn 60), so keep lava and open flame well away from it and from anything next to it. The fastest tool for it is shears; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 5 seconds — half of what a single smelting operation needs.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (30/60)
- Renewable
- Yes
- Fuel value
- 5 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Gray Wool
Drops
Mined with any, Gray Wool drops itself.
Used to craft
Gray Wool is an ingredient in 4 recipes, producing Gray Banner, Gray Bed, Gray Carpet, and Painting.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Gray Wool in Minecraft?
Gray Wool is crafted from Gray Dye and White Wool.
What tool do you need to break Gray Wool?
No specific tool is required — Gray Wool can be broken by hand.
Is Gray Wool blast resistant?
Gray Wool has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Gray Wool fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
Is Gray Wool renewable?
Yes — you can keep producing Gray Wool in one world, so building with it will not exhaust the supply.
The rest of the set
Gray Wool is one of 16. Every other member behaves the same way:
