How to Craft & Use Colorful Carpet in Minecraft

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A simple how-to for creating carpets in Minecraft

Co-authored by Pixlriffs and Janice Tieperman

Last Updated: November 28, 2025

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How to Craft a Carpet

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How to Use Carpet

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Carpet is a great way to decorate your home, but it can also add plenty of utility to your gameplay experience, like making it possible to hop over fences. In this article, we’ll cover how to make lots of colorful carpet, as well as all the different ways you can use it in your game.

Things You Should Know

Craft carpet by placing 2 pieces of wool next to one another on a crafting table.
Make colored carpet by crafting carpet with dyed wool or by dyeing completed carpet tiles.
Create carpet with both the crafting table and the crafting grid in your inventory.

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How to Craft a Carpet in Minecraft

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Gather at least 2 blocks of wool. Use shears to harvest wool from sheep, or kill the sheep outright to collect it.^{[1]
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- Killing sheep will only get you 1 block of wool, while shearing a sheep can get you up to 3 blocks.
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Dye the wool if you’d like your carpet to be a different color. Place the wool on the crafting table next to dye of your choice. You can also dye carpet after you’ve crafted it by pairing it with your desired dye color on a crafting table.^{[2]
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- For an endless supply of colored wool, use dye to recolor a sheep. Each time you shear it, you’ll get colored wool.
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Place 2 wool blocks next to each other on a crafting table. Go to your crafting table and place wool blocks in the bottom-left and bottom-center slots. Then, transfer the carpet to your inventory.
- You can also make carpet using the 2x2 crafting grid in your inventory.

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How to Use Carpet in Minecraft

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Place it on the floor of your home. Right-click to put carpet down on the ground if you’re playing on PC or Mac.
- Xbox: LT
- PlayStation: L2
- Nintendo Switch: ZL
- Mobile: Tap
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Put it on top of fence posts. Placing carpet on your fence posts allows you to jump over fences (instead of relying on gates).
- Veteran Minecraft players attest that animals can’t escape via carpet-covered posts.
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Use it to calm the bees (Java Edition only). In Java Edition, it’s possible to place a campfire beneath a beehive to help the bees chill out. Sticking a carpet square between the hive and fire helps protect the bees from damage while still allowing the calming effect of the smoke.^{[3]
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- Placing a carpet above the campfire in Bedrock cancels out the effect of the smoke.
Place a carpet on top of the one you placed on the ground. It’ll look like there’s a block of air between the carpet tiles, but this actually acts a barrier for mobs (including hostile ones).
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Jazz up your llama with colorful carpet. Tame a llama by attempting to ride it multiple times. Mount it and open up the llama’s inventory (no saddle is needed). Then, mount the llama and open up its inventory—there will be a slot to place a carpet, which will decorate your llama in a cool new outfit.
- You’ll see hearts once you’ve successfully tamed a llama.
Put carpet tiles down directly on top of any pesky flora, like tall grass—it’ll automatically destroy the plant there, but you likely won’t get any drops from it.