Hemp Materials

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Hemp is a fibre crop first, and the mod treats it that way. This page follows the stalk from the field to cloth — retting, fibre, canvas, hemp wool and carpet — and covers the two storage blocks and the two raw building materials, hempcrete and hemp brick: what each costs, what it stands in for, and how it burns and composts.

On this page: The chain at a glance · Hemp Stem · Retting · Hemp Fiber · Hemp Canvas · Hemp Wool and Hemp Carpet · Hemp wool is not sheep's wool · Going back a step · Storage blocks · Hempcrete and Hemp Brick · Fire, fuel and compost · For pack makers

The chain at a glance

Hemp Stem ──── crafting grid ─────────────────────────────► 4 Hemp Fiber
    │
    └── water cauldron ──► Retted Hemp Stem ── crafting grid ──► 6 Hemp Fiber
                                            └─ Hemp Press ─────► 8 Hemp Fiber

4 Hemp Fiber  (2×2) ──► 1 Hemp Canvas      ◄── and back: 1 canvas → 4 fibre
4 Hemp Canvas (2×2) ──► 2 Hemp Wool        ◄── and back: 1 wool → 2 canvas
2 Hemp Wool   (side by side) ──► 3 Hemp Carpet

Item	Made from	You get	Stems each (dry route)
Hemp Fiber	1 Hemp Stem, anywhere in the grid	4	¼
Hemp Canvas	4 Hemp Fiber in a 2×2 square	1	1
Hemp Wool	4 Hemp Canvas in a 2×2 square	2	2
Hemp Carpet	2 Hemp Wool side by side	3	1⅓

Retting the stems first brings every cost down by a third; the Hemp Press halves it. JEI or REI (and EMI on Minecraft 1.21.1) show every recipe in game, and their cauldron page shows retting, which is not a recipe.

Hemp Stem

Hemp Stem is what a harvested plant gives you besides buds and leaves; Lemon Haze, the tall strain, pays out more of them. See Growing Hemp and Strains.

What a stem does on its own:

Use	How	Result
Fibre	1 stem in the grid	4 Hemp Fiber
Retting	use it on a water cauldron	1 Retted Hemp Stem each (below)
Hempcrete	4 stems in a 2×2 square	2 Hempcrete (below)
Storage	9 stems, 3×3	1 Hemp Bale
Sticks	2 stems, one above the other	1 Stick
Dye	smelt it in a furnace	1 Green Dye (10 s, 1 XP — cactus's rate)

Retting

The short answer: hold a stack of Hemp Stems and use it on a cauldron of water. The stems turn into Retted Hemp Stem on the spot, and a retted stem gives 6 fibre in the grid instead of 4.

Retting is the soak that loosens the fibre from the woody core of the stalk. In game:

• One level of water rets 16 stems, so a full cauldron (one water bucket) rets 48. A click converts as much of the held stack as the water covers; anything left over stays in your hand, and the retted stems go into your inventory.
• There is no wait. The water is used up level by level, as when you wash things in a cauldron.
• It is hand work only: a hopper cannot feed a cauldron.
• A retted stem burns and composts exactly like a dry one, but it is used for nothing else — ret only what you mean to turn into fibre.

Route	Fibre per stem	What it costs you
Dry: stem in the grid	4	nothing
Retted: cauldron, then the grid	6	a cauldron, water, one extra step
Pressed: cauldron, then the Hemp Press	8	the Hemp Press and its heat (Hash and Concentrates)

Tip: the same water cauldron also rinses decarboxylated hemp for cannabutter — see Cannabutter.

Hemp Fiber

Hemp Fiber is the mod's string-grade material.

Use	Recipe	Result
String	1 fibre, anywhere in the grid	1 String
Paper	3 fibre in a row	2 Paper
Canvas	4 fibre in a 2×2 square	1 Hemp Canvas
The hemp outfit	24 fibre for all four pieces	Hemp Outfit
Repair	on an anvil	mends the hemp outfit

Hemp fibre also turns up in shipwreck supply chests and, now and then, on a fishing line as junk — see Finding Hemp.

Hemp Canvas

Hemp Canvas is woven hemp cloth — and the word canvas comes from cannabis. Canvas stands in for leather where vanilla uses leather, one recipe at a time; the vanilla recipe always still works.

Vanilla item	Vanilla recipe	With canvas
Book	3 Paper + Leather	3 Paper + Hemp Canvas, any arrangement
Item Frame	8 Sticks around Leather	8 Sticks around Hemp Canvas (glow item frames follow as usual)
Bundle	String over Leather	String over Hemp Canvas (new in 2.1)

Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.x only: the canvas bundle. On 1.21.1 the bundle is still behind a vanilla experiment, so there is no recipe for it.

With fibre making the paper, a book can be hemp all the way through — so can the bookshelves for an enchanting table, without a cow.

Canvas does not replace leather in leather armour (hemp has its own outfit), the saddle, horse armour or the harness. It is also the screen of the Sifting Box (Hash and Concentrates), and since 2.1 shipwreck supply chests sometimes hold a little of it beside the hemp fibre, as sailcloth.

Hemp Wool and Hemp Carpet

Hemp Wool is the bale of cloth: a soft block in undyed hemp, with wool's hardness, wool's sound, and a guitar under a note block. Hemp wool stands in for wool where vanilla uses wool:

Vanilla item	Vanilla recipe	With hemp wool
Painting	8 Sticks around any wool	8 Sticks around Hemp Wool
Bed	3 White Wool over 3 planks	3 Hemp Wool over 3 planks makes the Hemp Bed (new in 2.1) — dye it for any vanilla bed
Harness	3 Leather, 2 Glass and a wool	Hemp Harness (new in 2.1, Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.x only)
Carpet	2 wool side by side → 3	2 Hemp Wool → 3 Hemp Carpet

The bed and the harness are on Furniture and Decoration.

Hemp Carpet is a carpet like any other: it muffles footsteps for sculk sensors, and a tamed llama or a trader llama wears it as a hemp-cloth blanket (a dispenser puts it on too).

Hemp wool is not sheep's wool

Hemp Wool is deliberately not in the game's "any wool" tag (#minecraft:wool). For a player that means:

• It cannot be dyed. Vanilla's dyeing recipes, banners, vanilla beds and vanilla carpets all ask for a particular colour of sheep's wool, so none of them take it. The Hemp Bed, the Hemp Harness and the Hemp Carpet are its own uses.
• Another mod's recipe that asks for "any wool" will not take it.
• It keeps what wool is good for: it blocks and muffles vibrations for sculk sensors exactly as wool does, and it burns in a furnace for as long as wool (half an item).

The one vanilla recipe that reads "any wool" is the painting, and hemp wool has its own painting recipe — joining the tag would have given it nothing it does not already have.

Tip: sheep's wool without a sheep. Every Hemp Fiber crafts into a String, and four String make White Wool in vanilla's 2×2 square. One Hemp Stem is therefore one White Wool, ready to dye — for banners, coloured beds and carpets.

Going back a step

Two steps of the cloth chain undo, one step at a time and losing nothing:

Recipe	Result
1 Hemp Canvas, anywhere in the grid	4 Hemp Fiber
1 Hemp Wool, anywhere in the grid	2 Hemp Canvas

Nothing else goes back: fibre does not become stems, a retted stem stays retted, and carpet stays carpet (as in vanilla). There is no shortcut from wool straight to fibre — go through canvas.

Storage blocks

Two plain storage blocks: nine in, nine back out, with nothing lost either way.

Block	Recipe	Back	Notes
Hemp Bale	9 Hemp Stems, 3×3	9 Hemp Stems	Placed like hay, upright or on its side; a hoe breaks it fastest
Block of Hemp Leaves	9 Hemp Leaves, 3×3	9 Hemp Leaves	Behaves like leaves: shears, a hoe or a sword break it fast; a piston breaks it

The Hemp Bale is not a hay bale. It is nine whole stalks, not straw: it does not soften a fall, a campfire on it is not a signal fire, and animals do not eat it. It burns, a little less eagerly than hay.

Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3: a large sulfur cube that swallows a hemp bale becomes a footbag. How it plays.

The Block of Hemp Leaves never decays (it is crafted, not grown), keeps hemp's own green in every biome, and drops itself with any tool. Like any leaves, a sapling or a huge mushroom that grows into it takes its place.

Both compost a tier above what they are made of, as vanilla's compacted plant blocks do — but nine loose stems or leaves still fill a composter faster than one block.

Note: Hemp Flour comes from hemp seeds, not stems: one seed in the grid makes one flour. It belongs to the kitchen — see Hemp Food.

Hempcrete and Hemp Brick

The two raw materials of hemp building. The blocks they make are on Building Blocks.

Hempcrete — 4 Hemp Stems in a 2×2 square make 2.

Hempcrete makes	Recipe	Result
Block of Hemp Planks	6 Hempcrete, two rows of three	1
Hemp Brick	4 Hempcrete in a 2×2 square	1
Block of Hempcrete Powder	9 Hempcrete, 3×3	4
Concrete Powder, any colour	8 Hempcrete + 1 dye, any arrangement	4 vanilla Concrete Powder of that colour

Hemp Brick — 4 Hempcrete in a 2×2 square make 1 (eight stems' worth). Crafting your first one earns the Hemp Builder advancement.

Hemp Brick makes	Recipe	Result
Block of Hemp Bricks	9 Hemp Bricks, 3×3	1
Flower Pot	3 Hemp Bricks in vanilla's V	1
Grow Pot	5 Hemp Bricks around any dirt	1 — see Indoor Growing

Fire, fuel and compost

Hemp cloth burns better than sheep's wool. Wool is the odd one out among natural fibres — it smoulders and puts itself out — while plant fibres like hemp, flax and cotton keep a flame going. So in the mod, everything made of hemp cloth or loose plant burns, and everything built of hemp (the plank set, hemp bricks, hempcrete) does not — see Building Blocks.

Block	Catches fire	Burns away	Vanilla for comparison
Hemp Wool	60	60	wool 30 / 60 — hemp catches twice as readily
Hemp Carpet	60	20	every carpet 60 / 20
Hemp Bed	60	60	no vanilla bed burns at all
Hemp Bale	50	10	hay 60 / 20
Block of Hemp Leaves	30	60	leaves 30 / 60

(These are the game's own fire numbers: higher means fire spreads to it more readily, or eats it faster. Planks are 5 / 20.)

Fuel and compost, for everything on this page:

Item	Composter	Furnace fuel
Hemp Stem, Retted Hemp Stem	50%	¼ item each
Hemp Fiber	30%	—
Hemp Canvas	50%	—
Hemp Wool	—	½ item
Hemp Carpet	—	⅓ item
Hemp Bale	85%	2¼ items
Block of Hemp Leaves	50%	—
Hempcrete	30%	¼ item
Hemp Brick	5%	—
Block of Hempcrete Powder	85%	—

(One item = 10 seconds of furnace time. A dash means it does not go in.)

For pack makers

• Hemp Fiber is in #c:strings and Hemp Canvas in #c:leathers, so another mod's recipe that asks for any string or any leather takes them. Vanilla's own recipes name their items, so they are reached only through the mod's own second recipes above.
• Hemp Wool is in #minecraft:dampens_vibrations and #minecraft:occludes_vibration_signals but not #minecraft:wool; Hemp Carpet is in #minecraft:wool_carpets.
• Hemp Bale is #c:storage_blocks/hemp, Hemp Brick #c:bricks/hemp; the Block of Hemp Leaves is in #minecraft:leaves (block tag only).
• On NeoForge the compost and fuel values above are the neoforge:compostables and neoforge:furnace_fuels data maps, so a datapack can change them.

Every tag: Tags. Every id: Items and Blocks.

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See also: Building Blocks · Furniture and Decoration · Hemp Outfit · Growing Hemp