Closed Blue wool

As Frxxn mentioned, the most common approach is to just shear sheep yourself for the wool. Many wool farmers will create large stacks (100+ sheep) of all colors of sheep, then mass shear those sheep. This way you only have a small investment of lapis with a large return of wool.

Some players also do large scale wool operations through flower farming, though this does not apply to blue wool. If you change your biome to swamp and apply bonemeal to grass, it will spawn blue orchids which can be used for light blue dye. If you let a flower farm run for a couple hours with this, you can have DCs of light blue dye at the cost of bonemeal.

Same principal can be applied to other biome types, where players can set up multiple flower farms across various biome types to farm various types of flowers.

Two block tall flowers can also be easily farmed. If you apply bonemeal to a two tall flower, it will give you another one of that flower for every bonemeal you apply. People can easily farm all four flower types at once, resulted in significant amounts of dye.

There is most likely other forms of wool farming I'm unaware of, but those are the two most common methods for getting large sums of colored wool.

 

You must dye each individual sheep for the stack. When you dye a sheep in a stack of sheep, that newly dyed sheep should break off from the stack, and join a stack of any other sheep of the same color (if there are any). Sheared sheep will stack with sheared sheep of the same color, and all will regrow their wool at the same time.

Have you had those chunks with the sheep rendered and been within a decent distance of them? Sometimes sheep will only eat grass if they have a player with a certain proximity to them. My sheep seem to still be regaining their wool fine.

You cannot. Sheep spawners can only be a default type of "sheep", and the spawner will rotate through naturally occurring sheep colors at the same rate they appear in the wild. On classic you could spawn certain colors of sheep with /spawnmob, but here your best option is to use /spawnmob sheep 2 to spawn two sheep at once, with colors randomly chosen according to natural spawn behavior.

Unfortunately 1.12.2 does not have blue dye, so we are stuck dying all of our sheep with lapis, with no alternative method.

 

I can come check it out sometime soon. Not sure why the sheep wouldn't be eating... I play on 1.12.2 as well, but your client shouldn't affect the behavior of sheep. You also shouldn't need to enable mob spawning for anything to work.

 

The stacking number above the sheep counts as a nametag that prevents them from despawning. Your sheep should only despawn if they're the only member of their color type and not in a stack.

 

To my understanding, the conversion only works 1:1. We do not have any custom wool crafting recipes that would allow otherwise

 

Would you like to me to close this thread?