Uses for Wool: Thread spinning, bone needles, wool sweaters

[Johnny_Madhouse 28]

Currently, it's possible to run about naked in the freezing taiga all winter long without any problems. If dying of exposure is a planned feature, why not also implement woolen protective layers?

After shearing a sheep, the wool could be carded with bone tools and spun into thread to be knitted with bone needles. This would give a use to bones, which currently are only good for taming dogs. When skeletons are relegated to fantastical areas, the butchery of animals could result in bones as well.

Other things to consider:

Before knitting the thread into clothes, it could be possible to dye it.

With advancements in textiles (looms, anyone?) it could be possible to make nicer, sleeker-looking clothing to be worn as a status symbol for farmers on MP servers. Why should the forgemasters have all the good stuff?

Instead of real life silk worms, spiders could drop silk that could be turned into clothing as well. I, for one, would happily wear a purple silk cloak while yelling at peasants to make more charcoal. I would be equally happy slaving away making charcoal while wearing a crappy yellow sweater while someone in a purple cloak yells at me!

[Enzer 60]

Would be totally for this, colored clothes of different qualities would be a really good addition to multiplayer to help differentiate jobs. It would also give sheep a better use as for right now all they drop is wool and it isn't the most useful of materials outside of a one time bed. It would also give a better reason for shears to still require two ingots when you can make a full sized sword with a single ingot.

Lots of potential with textiles. It would also give us something to wear outside of leather armor (we don't have a competent enough metal smith to risk using so many resources on metal armors right now), it also seems funny to be wearing armor all day and all night even if your job is that of lowly farmer.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

It would also give a better reason for shears to still require two ingots when you can make a full sized sword with a single ingot.

you need a 2xingot for making a sword, which is basically the same you needed in vanilla minecraft :

But yeah, i'm on for this suggestion. +1

[Enzer 60]

you need a 2xingot for making a sword, which is basically the same you needed in vanilla minecraft :

But yeah, i'm on for this suggestion. +1

My bad, but my point still stands that shears are rather expensive (compared to most tools with greater importance) for a material that currently doesn't have much use, but has plenty of potential.

[EternalUndeath 1,208]

Already been a few threads for this, but yeah those bolts of cloth in the texture file need an item to associate with, and I'd like it sooner than later

[EstebanLB 183]

My bad, but my point still stands that shears are rather expensive (compared to most tools with greater importance) for a material that currently doesn't have much use, but has plenty of potential.

The shears recipe is temporary, it was not intented to remain that way forever

[Dunel 1]

It'll be good to have more uses for wool.

Good idea.

[Too-DAMN-Much 8]

i'll +1 this idea, but just mindlessly slaughtering spiders isn't even close to enough work for gathering silk, at least if there's a bit of processing between the spider and before the loom stage, also if this happens, it'd be awesome to get different qualities of cloth, cotton, wool, silk, etc.