How are people selling blue wool 256 for one grass and in the same shop 16 lapis for one grass. I see multiple shops like this. Red is the same prices. I asked somebody how they can sell 256 blue wool (that takes 256 lapis to make) They told me it was a secret. ???? The server doesnt have the cornflower and lapis is the only source of blue dye. Can anybody clue me in on how to get so much blue dye?
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.
I tried stacking the sheep and hitting em with some lapis. It turned the sheep blue but then after 1 shear, the naked sheep separated leaving a stack of white sheep. I have also had a naked sheep sitting on grass for 12 hours now and it doesnt eat the grass. Can you do /spawner to make a blue sheep spawner? I tried without success but maybe i dont know the proper name for that spawner. I have made flower farms and changed biomes so producing large amounts of other colors is not a prob. Light blue with an ink sac doesn't make reg blue dye either.
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 have been next to this sheep almost the whole time. I tried enabling mob spawning too. maybe its the version Im using? Im on 1.12.2 I have no idea why your sheep eat and mine dont. Its driving me crazy
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.
I was checking out Habersons island because he was selling the blue wool and found his colored sheep stacked. Im not sure how he keeps them from despawning because mine did when server restarted. I wonder if 1 nametag would work on a stack or do you have to dye the sheep, name it the same and then it stacks without despawning? Thats a lot of nametags if so and lots of iron for the anvil.
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.
I believe you. I just cant figure out what pattern to put it in on the crafting grid. I keep getting 1 to 1
To my understanding, the conversion only works 1:1. We do not have any custom wool crafting recipes that would allow otherwise
Will do. Ill even do you a favor and let you keep the wool part and Ill just take the 384 pieces of lapis you used to make it for 1 grass.
