Banner

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

Breaking

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

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 wool and a stick in a pattern resembling a sign.

Natural generation

Black Inverted Chevron Black Chevron White Flower Charge

Mob loot

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

Usage

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 it on a 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 entities can move through them. Banners cannot be moved by pistons. Water and lava flow around banners. , banners can be waterlogged. Lava can create 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).

File:Wall banner with water below.png| Water can be placed below wall banners File:Water flowing around banner.png| Water flows around a banner on the ground

Patterns

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

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

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