Minecraft:Banner

Template:Infobox block A banner is a Minecraft:block that can be Minecraft:crafted in 16 different colors, customized in a Minecraft:loom using Minecraft:dyes and Minecraft:banner patterns, and applied to a Minecraft:shield. Template:IN, banners can also be used to add markers to Minecraft:maps.

Obtaining

Breaking

Banners can be broken with or without a Minecraft:tool, but an Minecraft:axe is fastest. Template:Breaking row

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

Crafting

Banners can be crafted from six Minecraft:wool and a Minecraft:stick in a pattern resembling a Minecraft:sign. Template:Crafting Template:Crafting

Trading

Banners sold by cartographers

Template:EntitySprite Desert	Template:EntitySprite Jungle	Template:EntitySprite Plains	Template:EntitySprite Savanna	Template:EntitySprite Snowy	Template:EntitySprite Swamp	Template:EntitySprite Taiga
Template:BlockSprite Cyan	Template:BlockSprite Brown	Template:BlockSprite Brown	Template:BlockSprite Green	Template:BlockSprite Blue	Template:BlockSprite Black	Template:BlockSprite Blue
Template:BlockSprite Gray	Template:BlockSprite Green	Template:BlockSprite Pink	Template:BlockSprite Magenta	Template:BlockSprite Cyan	Template:BlockSprite Light Blue	Template:BlockSprite Lime
Template:BlockSprite Green	Template:BlockSprite Yellow	Template:BlockSprite White	Template:BlockSprite Orange	Template:BlockSprite Light Blue	Template:BlockSprite Purple	Template:BlockSprite Pink
Template:BlockSprite Lime	–	Template:BlockSprite Yellow	Template:BlockSprite Red	Template:BlockSprite Red	–	Template:BlockSprite Purple
Template:BlockSprite Orange	–	–	–	Template:BlockSprite White	–	–

Natural generation

Name	Location	Appearance	Design
Magenta Banner	Outside of Minecraft:end cities.	File:End City Banner.png	Magenta Banner Black Inverted Chevron Black Chevron
Gray Banner	In banner room in Minecraft:woodland mansions.	File:Gray Banner.png	Gray Banner
Light Gray Banner	In master bedroom in Minecraft:woodland mansions.	File:Master Bedroom Banner.png	Light Gray Banner White Flower Charge
Brown Banner	Outside of some houses, meeting points, and pillar fountains in savanna Minecraft:villages.	File:Brown Banner.png	Brown Banner
Black Banner	In altar room in Minecraft:woodland mansions.	File:Black Banner.png	Black Banner
Minecraft:Ominous Banner	Carried by Minecraft:illagers and located in Minecraft:pillager outposts.	File:Ominous Banner BE.png	Illager face

Mob loot

Minecraft:Illagers that spawn carrying an Minecraft:ominous banner always drop it upon death, unaffected by Minecraft:looting.

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 16 colors. A banner can be customized with up to 6 layers of patterns. The top layer of a banner (or the last pattern added) can be washed off by Template:Control it on a Minecraft:cauldron containing water.

Banners, much like signs, can be placed either on the ground facing in 16 directions, or on a wall. They gently sway as if affected by a breeze, regardless of dimension or location.

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. When a banner is placed on the side of a block, its position is set by the top block. This makes it possible to overlap another solid block on the top half of a floor banner, or the bottom half of a wall banner.

Banners have no collision mask as they are completely non-solid, so Minecraft:entities can move through them.

Banners cannot be moved by Minecraft:pistons.

Minecraft:Water and Minecraft:lava flow around banners. Template:IN, banners can be Minecraft:waterlogged. Lava can create Minecraft:fire in air blocks next to banners as if the banners were flammable, but the banners do not burn (and cannot be burned by other methods).

• Water can be placed below wall banners
  Water can be placed below wall banners
• Water flows around a banner on the ground
  Water flows around a banner on the ground

Patterns

Template:See also A banner may have up to six layers of patterns, which are overlaid with the last-added on top. Patterns can be colored with any of the 16 Minecraft:dye colors.

A Minecraft:loom is used to add patterns. All patterns require a dye, but some of them also need a Minecraft:banner pattern item, which is not consumed in the process. Template:LoadPage

Template:IN, most patterns can also be added through Minecraft:crafting, although this generally requires more dye and may also consume valuable items such as Minecraft:enchanted golden apples. Designs that require uncraftable banner pattern items (e.g. globe or gust) are not available through crafting. Template:LoadPage

Custom banner and shield designs can be previewed using this tool:Template:Calculator

File:Spawned-in Banner.png

Example of a banner with more than 6 patterns, a result of using the Template:Cmd command.

Template:IN, a banner can have more than six layers of patterns if obtained through commands (such as Template:Cmd or Template:Cmd) or external editors. A banner can visually display up to 16 layers. The item tooltip of a banner with more than 6 patterns lists only the first 6 bottom-most layers. Here is an example of a command that gives the player a banner with eight different patterns:

/give @s white_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:half_horizontal,color:red},{pattern:stripe_top,color:blue},{pattern:stripe_middle,color:pink},{pattern:stripe_bottom,color:cyan},{pattern:stripe_downright,color:yellow},{pattern:stripe_downleft,color:lime},{pattern:rhombus,color:orange},{pattern:skull,color:black}]]

Template:IN, banners with more than 6 layers are unobtainable via commands. Banners can display only up to 6 layers, even if more layers are added using external editors. Tooltips of such banners list all the layers.

Crafting ingredient

Minecraft: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.

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.

Template:IN, the banner with the pattern must be to the left of or above the blank banner in the crafting table. Template:Crafting

Renaming

Like other items, banners can be renamed on an Minecraft:anvil. A banner retains its custom name when it is placed and retrieved, when a layer is added or removed, and when the banner is cloned; additionally, applying a renamed banner to a shield Template:In gives the shield the custom banner name.

Template:IN, a banner can also be given a custom name by using the Template:Cmd command on a banner block to change its CustomName NBT tag.

Map marker

All banners marked on a map, alongside a named banner.

How every banner appears Template:In on a map, including a named banner.

Template:Exclusive Template:IN, pressing the Template:Control control on a banner while holding a Minecraft:map places a marker of the banner's position on the selected map, and pressing Template:Control 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 Minecraft:cartography table. If the banner is renamed, the name appears below the marker.

Helmet

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

Chestplate

Template:Exclusive While a banner cannot be equipped in the Minecraft:chestplate slot in Survival mode, equipping it using NBT editors causes it to appear on top of the player. This is how Minecraft:raid captains wear banners.

• File:Steve wearing White Banner.png
• File:Alex wearing White Banner.png

Fuel

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

Sounds

Unique

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Template:Edition: Banner/Sounds

Data values

ID

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Metadata

Item

Template:IN, 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

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Floor Template:Bst Wall Template:Bst

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Standing

Wall

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Block data

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

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<section begin="block data"/>

• Template:Nbt Block entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/nameable
  • Template:Nbt: List of all patterns applied to the banner. Represents the minecraft:banner_patterns component.
    • Template:Nbt: An individual pattern.
      • Template:Nbt: Color of the section.
      • Template:NbtTemplate:Nbt: Template:Json ref — The banner pattern the color is applied to.
        • Template:Nbt inherit/banner pattern

Color	ID (Template:El)	Data value (Template:El)	Hex color
Template:Color	white	0	#F9FFFE
Template:Color	orange	1	#F9801D
Template:Color	magenta	2	#C74EBD
Template:Color	light_blue	3	#3AB3DA
Template:Color	yellow	4	#FED83D
Template:Color	lime	5	#80C71F
Template:Color	pink	6	#F38BAA
Template:Color	gray	7	#474F52
Template:Color	light_gray	8	#9D9D97
Template:Color	cyan	9	#169C9C
Template:Color	purple	10	#8932B8
Template:Color	blue	11	#3C44AA
Template:Color	brown	12	#835432
Template:Color	green	13	#5E7C16
Template:Color	red	14	#B02E26
Template:Color	black	15	#1D1D21

Template:LoadPage<section end="block data"/>

Template:El:

See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Item data

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• Template:Nbt: the item's components tag.

Data component format/banner patterns

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History

Trivia

• With 16 blank banners, 42 patterns of 16 colors each (672 uniquely-colored patterns), and 0 to 6 patterns per banner, the number of uniquely crafted banners is <math>16 \times \sum_{k=0}^6 (16 \times 42)^k = 1,475,646,641,940,097,552</math> or approximately 1.48 quintillion. The number of visually distinct banners is smaller, because one or more patterns may completely cover other patterns or be duplicated.
  • A banner can have up to 16 layers of patterns with the use of commands. The total number of unique banners with at most 16 banner patterns is approximately 2.77 × 10⁴⁶ (27 quattuordecillion), or exactly 27,712,461,604,001,911,162,527,386,403,537,046,036,140,157,456.
• The Mojang logo is called "Thing" in-game, which could be considered an alternate translation for mojäng.
  • 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.

Gallery

Renders

Banners

• File:White Banner.gif
• File:Light Gray Banner.gif
• File:Gray Banner.gif
• File:Black Banner.gif
• File:Brown Banner.gif
• File:Red Banner.gif
• File:Orange Banner.gif
• File:Yellow Banner.gif
• File:Lime Banner.gif
• File:Green Banner.gif
• File:Cyan Banner.gif
• File:Light Blue Banner.gif
• File:Blue Banner.gif
• File:Purple Banner.gif
• File:Magenta Banner.gif
• File:Pink Banner.gif

Wall banner

• File:White Wall Banner.png
• File:Light Gray Wall Banner.png
• File:Gray Wall Banner.png
• File:Black Wall Banner.png
• File:Brown Wall Banner.png
• File:Red Wall Banner.png
• File:Orange Wall Banner.png
• File:Yellow Wall Banner.png
• File:Lime Wall Banner.png
• File:Green Wall Banner.png
• File:Cyan Wall Banner.png
• File:Light Blue Wall Banner.png
• File:Blue Wall Banner.png
• File:Purple Wall Banner.png
• File:Magenta Wall Banner.png
• File:Pink Wall Banner.png

Screenshots

• Another banner image from Jeb.
  Another banner image from Jeb.
• Several banners made by Searge.
  Several banners made by Searge.
• Banners in the official 1.8 poster.
  Banners in the official 1.8 poster.
• An image, tweeted by Jeb, showcasing the changes he made to the banner color palette in the 1.12 update.
  An image, tweeted by Jeb, showcasing the changes he made to the banner color palette in the 1.12 update.
• The result of using gradient different numbers of times, each time increasing the level of gradient by 1.
  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
  All positions and rotations of a banner
• A banner with the Minecraft:Mojang logo in an Minecraft:item frame.
  A banner with the Minecraft:Mojang logo in an Minecraft:item frame.
• Banners floating outside of an Minecraft:end city tower.
  Banners floating outside of an Minecraft:end city tower.
• Banners hanging above the doorway of a Minecraft:woodland mansion master bedroom.
  Banners hanging above the doorway of a Minecraft:woodland mansion master bedroom.
• Banner put in the helmet slot by using the command Template:CmdTemplate:Only or Template:CmdTemplate:Only.
  Banner put in the helmet slot by using the command Template:CmdTemplate:Only or Template:CmdTemplate:Only.
• Banners in Bedrock Edition.
  Banners in Bedrock Edition.
• A banner in the hand.
  A banner in the hand.
• A banner in the inventory.
  A banner in the inventory.
• A banner in the crafting grid.
  A banner in the crafting grid.
• A banner being given a pattern.
  A banner being given a pattern.

Development images

• The first image of banners, as tweeted by Minecraft:Jens Bergensten.
  The first image of banners, as tweeted by Minecraft:Jens Bergensten.
• Unused banner item base texture.
  Unused banner item base texture.
• Unused banner item overlay texture.
  Unused banner item overlay texture.
• Both textures put together.
  Both textures put together.

In other media

• Banner in Template:Amcm.
  Banner in Template:Amcm.

LEGO banners

• LEGO banners from 21127 and 21131
  LEGO banners from 21127 and 21131
• LEGO banner from 21138
  LEGO banner from 21138
• LEGO banner from 21142
  LEGO banner from 21142
• LEGO banner from 21144
  LEGO banner from 21144
• Another LEGO banner from 21144
  Another LEGO banner from 21144
• A third LEGO banner from 21144
  A third LEGO banner from 21144
• LEGO banner from 21152
  LEGO banner from 21152
• LEGO banners from 21155
  LEGO banners from 21155
• LEGO ominous banner from 21160
  LEGO ominous banner from 21160
• LEGO banner from 21261
  LEGO banner from 21261