Overview
Red 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.
Red Wool counts as a coloured block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Red Wool. Its hardness of 0.8 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
You can break it by hand without losing the drop. It drops as the same block you mined. With a blast resistance of only 0.8 it will not survive an explosion.
Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. The recipe calls for Red Dye and White Wool. It is an ingredient in 4 recipes, among them Painting, Red Banner, Red Bed and 1 more.
About the red set
Properties
Red Wool has a blast resistance of 0.8, so any explosion nearby destroys it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. It is renewable, so one world can supply as much of it as you want. Fire takes to it quickly — encouragement 30, burn 60 — which makes it a poor neighbour for lava or a lit campfire. The block is tagged for shears, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate. 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
Red Wool
Drops
Mined with any, Red Wool drops itself.
Used to craft
Red Wool is an ingredient in 4 recipes, producing Painting, Red Banner, Red Bed, and Red Carpet.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Red Wool in Minecraft?
Red Wool is crafted from Red Dye and White Wool.
What tool do you need to break Red Wool?
No specific tool is required — Red Wool can be broken by hand.
Is Red Wool blast resistant?
Red Wool has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Red Wool fit in one stack?
Red Wool stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
Is Red Wool renewable?
It is. Red Wool can be made again in the same world, so there is no need to ration it.
The rest of the set
Red Wool is one of 16. Every other member behaves the same way:
