Banner

Banner

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Rarity color	Colored Banners Common Ominous Banner Ominous‌[Java Edition only]
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (16)
Tool
Blast resistance	1
Hardness	1
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

Banners are tall decorative blocks, featuring a field that is highly customizable using dyes and patterns.

Obtaining

Breaking

Banners can be broken with or without a tool, but an axe is fastest.

Block	Banners
Hardness	1
Tool
Breaking time
Default	1.5
Wooden	0.75
Stone	0.4
Iron	0.25
Diamond	0.2
Netherite	0.2
Golden	0.15

A banner also breaks and drops itself as an item if the block the banner is attached to is moved, removed, or destroyed.

Natural generation

Name	Location	Appearance	Design
Magenta Banner	Outside of end cities.	50px	Magenta Banner Black Inverted Chevron Black Chevron
Gray Banner	In banner room in woodland mansions.	50px	Gray Banner
Light Gray Banner	In master bedroom in woodland mansions.	50px	Light Gray Banner White Flower Charge
Ominous Banner‌[JE only] Illager Banner‌[BE & EE only]	Carried by raid captains. Located in pillager outposts. In Java Edition, the Ominous banner cannot be crafted because the design uses 8 patterns. In Bedrock Edition, the Illager Banner is a separate type that cannot be placed in a loom.	50px50px	White Banner‌[JE only] Cyan Lozenge Light Gray Base Gray Pale Light Gray Bordure Black Fess Light Gray Per Fess Light Gray Roundel Black Bordure Separate type entirely‌[BE only]
Brown Banner	Outside of some houses, meeting points, and pillar fountains in savanna villages.	50px	Brown Banner
Black Banner	In altar room in woodland mansions.	50px	Black Banner

Crafting

Banners can be crafted from six wool and a stick in a pattern resembling a sign.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Banner	Matching Wool + Stick		Once the banner is crafted, its base color cannot be changed.‌[Java Edition only]
White Banner	Any Banner + Bleach		Bleach can be used to remove the color of a banner, resulting in a white banner. This includes removing patterns from a white banner.‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]

Trading

Expert-level cartographer villagers always offer to sell 1 or 2 blank banners of a random color for 3 emeralds. Expert-level shepherd villagers have a ²⁄₇ chance of offering the same trade.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

In Bedrock Edition, expert-level cartographer and shepherd villagers both offer to sell one of 16 blank banners for 3 emeralds as part of their trades.

Mob loot

Illagers that spawn carrying an ominous banner‌^{[JE only]} / illager banner‌^{[BE & EE only]} always drop it upon death.

Usage

File:Standing banner with block.png

Overlapping block on a banner.

File:Wall banner with block.png

Overlapping on a wall mounted banner.

There are 16 colored blank banners, and numerous patterns each available in each of the 16 colors. A banner can feature up to 6 different patterns. The top layer of a banner (or the last pattern added) can be washed off by using it on a cauldron containing water.

Banners, much like signs, can be placed both on the ground facing in any direction, or on a wall. They gently sway as if affected by a breeze, regardless of dimension or location.

Banners have no collision mask as they are completely non-solid, so items and mobs can move through them.

Other blocks (including other banners) can be placed on any edge of a banner's hitbox, which is only one block high despite the banner appearing as two blocks tall. This makes it possible to overlap another solid block on the top half of a banner for floor banners, or the bottom half of wall banners.

When a banner is placed on the side of a block, its position is set by the top block, and it is possible to place it so it appears half buried.

Banners can also be placed in item frames, where they simply appear as their item model.

Water and lava flow around banners. In Bedrock Edition, banners can be waterlogged.

• Wall banner with water below.png

  Water can be placed below wall banners

• Water flowing around banner.png

  Water flows around a banner on the ground

Lava can create fire in air blocks next to banners as if the banners were flammable, but the banners do not burn (and can't be burned by other methods, either). Banners also cannot be moved by pistons.

If a banner is renamed on an anvil, it retains its name when a pattern is added, but not when a pattern is removed.

Helmet

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While a banner cannot be equipped in the head slot in Survival mode, equipping it using commands causes it to appear on top of the player. This is how pillager captains wear banners.Template:Testingame

Copying

Banners can be copied with a blank banner to make multiple identical banners. Banners with more than 6 patterns applied using commands cannot be copied in this manner.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Banner		Copies pattern; both banners must have the same base color, and the one having a pattern copied onto it must have no preexisting pattern.

Crafting ingredient

Template:Exclusive Shields can have patterns applied to them using banners. The shield pattern has a smaller resolution than the banner pattern, causing them to look different or offset.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Shield	Shield + Matching Banner
Shield	Shield + Matching Banner		Applies the banner pattern to the shield. The banner is consumed. The shield must have no preexisting patterns. Does not change existing durability or enchantments on the shield.

Fuel

Banners can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per banner.

Renaming

In Java Edition, a banner can be given a custom name that remains as the banner is placed and retrieved. The player can use an anvil to rename the banner item, or may change the CustomName tag using the /data command on the banner block.

Map marker

Template:Exclusive In Java Edition, using on a banner with a map selected places a marker of the banner's position on the selected map, and using on the banner again removes the marker. The marker has the same color as the banner's base without decorations. The marker is removed if the banner is destroyed unless the map is locked using a cartography table. If the banner is renamed, the name appears below the marker.

Patterns

A banner may have up to six patterns, which are overlaid with the last-crafted on top. A banner can have up to 16 patterns with the use of commands. The total number of unique banners is approximately 2.3x10^16.

Any color banner can be used; the pattern overlays the color. In Java Edition, a loom is used to make patterns. However, in Bedrock Edition, the patterns can be made in a loom or a crafting table.

Loom recipes

Main page: Template:Banner pattern loom recipes

[edit]

Crafting recipes

Main article: Banner/Banner pattern crafting recipes

[edit]

Note Blocks

Banners can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sound.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Wood dig1.oggFile:Wood dig2.oggFile:Wood dig3.oggFile:Wood dig4.ogg	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
File:Wood hit1.oggFile:Wood hit2.oggFile:Wood hit3.oggFile:Wood hit4.oggFile:Wood hit5.oggFile:Wood hit6.ogg	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
File:Wood hit1.oggFile:Wood hit2.oggFile:Wood hit3.oggFile:Wood hit4.oggFile:Wood hit5.oggFile:Wood hit6.ogg	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
File:Wood dig1.oggFile:Wood dig2.oggFile:Wood dig3.oggFile:Wood dig4.ogg	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
File:Wood hit1.oggFile:Wood hit2.oggFile:Wood hit3.oggFile:Wood hit4.oggFile:Wood hit5.oggFile:Wood hit6.ogg	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.wood	1.0	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
White Banner	white_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.white_banner
Orange Banner	orange_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.orange_banner
Magenta Banner	magenta_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.magenta_banner
Light Blue Banner	light_blue_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.light_blue_banner
Yellow Banner	yellow_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.yellow_banner
Lime Banner	lime_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.lime_banner
Pink Banner	pink_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.pink_banner
Gray Banner	gray_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.gray_banner
Light Gray Banner	light_gray_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.light_gray_banner
Cyan Banner	cyan_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.cyan_banner
Purple Banner	purple_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.purple_banner
Blue Banner	blue_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.blue_banner
Brown Banner	brown_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.brown_banner
Green Banner	green_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.green_banner
Red Banner	red_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.red_banner
Black Banner	black_banner	banners wall_post_override	banners	Block & Item	block.minecraft.black_banner
White Wall Banner	white_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.white_banner
Orange Wall Banner	orange_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.orange_banner
Magenta Wall Banner	magenta_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.magenta_banner
Light Blue Wall Banner	light_blue_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.light_blue_banner
Yellow Wall Banner	yellow_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.yellow_banner
Lime Wall Banner	lime_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.lime_banner
Pink Wall Banner	pink_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.pink_banner
Gray Wall Banner	gray_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.gray_banner
Light Gray Wall Banner	light_gray_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.light_gray_banner
Cyan Wall Banner	cyan_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.cyan_banner
Purple Wall Banner	purple_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.purple_banner
Blue Wall Banner	blue_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.blue_banner
Brown Wall Banner	brown_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.brown_banner
Green Wall Banner	green_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.green_banner
Red Wall Banner	red_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.red_banner
Black Wall Banner	black_wall_banner	banners wall_post_override	—	Block	block.minecraft.black_banner

Name	Namespaced ID
Block entity	banner

Bedrock Edition:

Banner	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Standing	standing_banner	176	Block	tile.standing_banner.black.name tile.standing_banner.red.name tile.standing_banner.green.name tile.standing_banner.brown.name tile.standing_banner.blue.name tile.standing_banner.purple.name tile.standing_banner.cyan.name tile.standing_banner.silver.name tile.standing_banner.gray.name tile.standing_banner.pink.name tile.standing_banner.lime.name tile.standing_banner.yellow.name tile.standing_banner.lightBlue.name tile.standing_banner.magenta.name tile.standing_banner.orange.name tile.standing_banner.white.name
Wall	wall_banner	177	Block	tile.wall_banner.name
Item	banner	425	Item	item.banner.black.name item.banner.red.name item.banner.green.name item.banner.brown.name item.banner.blue.name item.banner.purple.name item.banner.cyan.name item.banner.silver.name item.banner.gray.name item.banner.pink.name item.banner.lime.name item.banner.yellow.name item.banner.lightBlue.name item.banner.magenta.name item.banner.orange.name item.banner.white.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Banner

Metadata

Block

See also: data values and Bedrock Edition data values

In Bedrock Edition, banner blocks use the following data values: Sign/DV

Item

In Bedrock Edition, banner items use the following data values:

DV	Banner color
0	black
1	red
2	green
3	brown
4	blue
5	purple
6	cyan
7	light gray
8	gray
9	pink
10	lime
11	yellow
12	light blue
13	magenta
14	orange
15	white

Block states

See also: Block states

Block data

See also: Block entity format

A banner has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

History

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Java Edition
1.8		July 21, 2014			Jeb posted a picture of banners, and stated that he is working on them.
		14w30a			32px Added banners.
		14w30c			Added four additional patterns: Cross (+), Border, Curly Border and Thing (Mojang logo).
		14w31a			Added two additional patterns: Inverted Halves and Base Gradient.
					The banner pattern terminology has been changed based on vexillology advice Jeb received from his Reddit post.
					Banners can now be used as a fuel in furnaces.
		?			22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22px22pxBanners have been changed to render the model as an item.
1.8.8		pre			The number of layers attainable by using commands is now limited to 16 per banner.
1.9		15w31a			17px Magenta banners with a black chevron and inverted chevron are now naturally generated on the outside walls of end cities.
		15w33c			Banners can be used to apply patterns to shields.
1.11		16w33a			Banners now require a dye when applying a pattern that uses a non-dye item, such as a creeper head or enchanted golden apple. Previously, the lack of a dye would have applied the black variant of the pattern.
		16w39a			Black and gray banners, and light gray banners with a white flower charge are now naturally generated in rooms of woodland mansions.
1.12		January 24, 2017			Jeb tweets a screenshot of the changes to the banner color palette.
		17w06a			17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px Changed banners' tints.
		pre6			"Chief fess" and "base fess" banners are now just "chief" and "base" banners.
1.13		17w47a			The colors for the banner, wall_banner and standing_banner ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 176 and 177, and the item's 425.
		18w10a			Using a map on a banner now mark the spot of the banner on the map.
1.14		18w43a			Looms have been added to help the player edit banners more easily.
					All recipes for banner patterns have been removed.
		18w45a			17px Added illager patrols, where the leader of an illager patrol carries an illager banner.
		18w46a			17px The pattern of illager banner now has a black border.
		Pre-Release 2			"Illager Banners" have been renamed to "Ominous Banners".
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		20w46a			The unused "base" pattern has been renamed to the "field" pattern and given proper translation strings (its ID is still "base").
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px 17px Added banners.
					17px Magenta banners with a black chevron and inverted chevron are now naturally generated on the outside walls of end cities.
					Black and gray banners, and light gray banners with a white flower charge are now naturally generated in rooms of woodland mansions.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			The white banner can now be crafted from a colored banner and bleach, which also removes all patterns, if used on a white banner.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Looms have been added to help the player edit banners more easily.
					Brown banners now generate in new savanna villages.
					Black banners now generate in pillager outpost watchtowers.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Gray banners now generate in pillager outpost watchtowers, instead of black banners.
					17px Added illager captains, which drop an illager banner upon death.
		beta 1.11.0.3			Illager banners now generate in pillager outpost watchtowers, instead of gray banners.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Banners can now be bought from cartographer and shepherd villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13	1.0.1	22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px 22px Added banners.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		17px Magenta banners with a black chevron and inverted chevron are now naturally generated on the outside walls of end cities.
		1.90			Looms have been added to help the player edit banners more easily.
		1.91			17px Added illager banners, which generate with pillager outposts and are dropped by illager captains upon death.

Issues

Issues relating to "Banner" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• With 16 blank banners, 38 patterns of 16 colors each (608 uniquely-colored patterns), and 0 to 6 patterns per banner, the number of uniquely crafted banners is 16 × (608⁰ + 608¹ + 608² + 608³ + 608⁴ + 608⁵ + 608⁶) ≈ 809 quadrillion (809,573,616,779,945,488). The number of visually distinct banners is smaller, because one or more patterns may completely cover other patterns, or the entire banner, or be duplicated due to the symmetric set of patterns (e.g. field or (yellow) + per pale azure (blue) = field azure + per pale or inverted).
• If a banner has over 6 patterns, only the six bottom-most patterns are displayed when hovered over in the inventory.
• The Mojang Logo is called "Thing" in-game, which could be considered an alternate translation for mojäng. If Google Translate is used, it translates to "thingys" or "contraption".
  • In the Swedish translation of the game, this pattern is, in fact, called mojäng.
• Banner textures are located in \assets\minecraft\textures\entity\banner.
  • There are 40 monochrome textures, each containing all 6 sides of the banner.
  • The texture of the back side is the mirrored texture of the front side.
  • Compared to the texture files, textures' colors are inverted in-game due to them acting as masks for the re-colored base texture, base.png. That means white is visible, while black is transparent.
• Banners that have the purple NBT+ line in the bottom (obtained by holding Ctrl and middle-clicking the banner, which also copies the NBT tag of anything that the player points their crosshair to) actually has no difference with the base banner obtained by middle click.

Gallery

• Banners Jeb.png

  The first image of banners, as tweeted by Jens Bergensten.

• The Bountiful Update.png

  Banners in the official 1.8 poster.

• BannersBeforeAndAfter.png

  An image, tweeted by Jeb, showcasing the changes he made to the banner color palette in the 1.12 update.

• Gradients Overlay.png

  The result of using gradient different numbers of times, each time increasing the level of gradient by 1.

• All positions and rotations of a banner.png

  All positions and rotations of a banner

• Item Frame with Banner.png

  A banner with the Mojang logo in an item frame.

• EndCityBanners.png

  Banners floating outside of an End city tower.

• Woodland mansion 1x2 d1.png

  Banners hanging above the doorway of a woodland mansion master bedroom.

• Spawned-in Banner.png

  Example of a banner with more than 6 patterns, a result of using the /give command.

• Replaceitembanner.png

  Banner put in the helmet slot by using the command /replaceitem.

Renders

• Ominous Banner.gif

  Ominous banner pattern in Java Edition.

• Ominous Banner BE.gif

  Illager banner pattern in Bedrock Edition.

• Ominous Banner Revision 1.gif

  Old Ominous banner pattern.

• Ominous Banner washing.gif

  Washing with cauldron shows how to apply the ominous banner pattern.