Banner

Banner

Type	Non-Solid Block
Physics	No
Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	5
Hardness	1
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (16)
Flammable	No, but catches fire from lava
First appearances	See history
Drops	Itself
Block entity id	banner
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

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

Obtaining

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

Block	Banner
Hardness	1
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	1.5
Wooden	0.75
Stone	0.4
Iron	0.25
Diamond	0.2
Golden	0.15

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

Crafting

Banners can be crafted from wool and a stick.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Wool + Stick

Natural generation

Banners generate on the outside of end cities. It is a magenta banner with a black chevron and black inverted chevron.

Banners also generate in woodland mansions.

Usage

Getting started

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 different directions, and on walls. Banners have no collision mask (they are completely non-solid), so items and mobs can move through banners. Other blocks (including other banners) can be placed on any edge of a banner's hitbox; which, despite appearing as two blocks tall, it only fills the bottom block (or the top block for banners on walls). Banners can also be placed in item frames, where they simply appear as their item model.

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

Copying

Banners can be copied with a blank banner to make multiple identical banners.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Banner		Copies pattern; both banners must have the same base color, and the one that will have patterns printed onto it must have no preexisting patterns.

Patterns

A banner may have up to six patterns, which are overlaid with the last-crafted on top.

Any color banner can be used, the color will just be overlayed with the pattern.

Stripes

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Base Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a base (bottom third colored)
Chief Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a chief (top third colored)
Pale Dexter Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a pale dexter (left third colored)
Pale Sinister Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a pale sinister (right third colored)
Pale Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a pale (center vertical line)
Fess Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a fess (center horizontal line)
Bend Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a bend (line from upper-left to lower-right)
Bend Sinister Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a bend sinister (line from upper-right to lower-left)
Paly Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a paly (vertical pinstripes)
Saltire Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a saltire ('X' shape)
Cross Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a cross

Halves

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Per Bend Sinister Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per bend sinister (upper-left half colored)
Per Bend Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per bend (upper-right half colored)
Per Bend Inverted Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per bend inverted (lower-left half colored)
Per Bend Sinister Inverted Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per bend sinister inverted (lower-right half colored)
Per Pale Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per pale (left half colored)
Per Pale Inverted Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per pale inverted (right half colored)
Per Fess Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per fess (top half colored)
Per Fess Inverted Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a per fess inverted (bottom half colored)

Shapes

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Base Dexter Canton Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a base dexter canton (square in lower-left corner)
Base Sinister Canton Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a base sinister canton (square in lower-right corner)
Chief Dexter Canton Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a chief dexter canton (square in upper-left corner)
Chief Sinister Canton Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a chief sinister canton (square in upper-right corner)
Chevron Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a chevron (triangle at bottom)
Inverted Chevron Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons an inverted chevron (triangle at top)
Base Indented Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a base indented (scallop shapes at bottom)
Chief Indented Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a chief indented (scallop shapes at top)
Roundel Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a roundel (circle in center)
Lozenge Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a lozenge (rhombus in center)

Borders

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Bordure Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a bordure (border)
Dyed Bordure Indented Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Vines		Emblazons a dyed bordure indented (fancy border)

Backgrounds

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Dyed Field Masoned Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Bricks		Emblazons a dyed field masoned (brick pattern)

Gradients

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Gradient Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a gradient (color at top)
Base Gradient Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye		Emblazons a base gradient (color at bottom)

Symbols/Icons

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Dyed Creeper Charge Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Creeper Head		Emblazons a dyed creeper charge (creeper face)
Dyed Skull Charge Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Wither Skeleton Skull		Emblazons a dyed skull charge (skull and crossbones)
Dyed Flower Charge Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Oxeye Daisy		Emblazons a dyed flower charge (flower icon)
Dyed Thing Banner	Any Banner + Matching Dye + Enchanted Golden Apple		Emblazons a dyed Thing (Mojang logo)

Crafting ingredient

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		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

A banner can be given a custom name which 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 /blockdata command on the banner block.

Data values

A banner is defined by its ID, block data, and block entity. A banner also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

ID

A banner's ID defines whether it is standing on the top of a block or attached to the side of a block:

Description	ID Name	Numerical ID
Standing	standing_banner	176
Wall	wall_banner	177
Item	banner	425

Block data

See also: Data values

A banner's block data specifies the direction it is facing.

Standing

Bits	Description
0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8	A four-bit field storing a value from 0 to 15 specifying the block's orientation: 0: south 1: south-southwest 2: southwest 3: west-southwest 4: west 5: west-northwest 6: northwest 7: north-northwest 8: north 9: north-northeast 10: northeast 11: east-northeast 12: east 13: east-southeast 14: southeast 15: south-southeast

Wall

Bits	Description
0x1 0x2 0x4	A three-bit field storing a value from 2 to 5 specifying the block's orientation: 2: north 3: south 4: west 5: east
0x8	(unused)

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

A banner has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block. The banner's block entity ID is banner.

• 
  Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  • 
     CustomName: Optional. A custom name which will be stored and re-used when the banner is dropped as an item.
  • 
     Base: Determines background color of the banner.
  • 
     Patterns: List of all patterns applied to the banner.
    • 
      : An individual pattern.
      • 
         Color: Color of the section.
      • 
         Pattern: Section of the banner the color is applied to (see Banner/Patterns).

Block state

See also: Block states

Standing

Name	Value	Description
rotation	0—15	The direction the block is facing: 0: south 1: south-southwest 2: southwest 3: west-southwest 4: west 5: west-northwest 6: northwest 7: north-northwest 8: north 9: north-northeast 10: northeast 11: east-northeast 12: east 13: east-southeast 14: southeast 15: south-southeast

Wall

Name	Value	Description
facing	north south east west	The direction the block is facing. For example, a block facing east is attached to a block to its west. Opposite from the direction a player faces when placing the block.

History

Official release
1.8			July 21, 2014		Jeb posts a picture of banners and states that he is working on them.
			14w30a		Added banners.
			14w30c		Added four additional patterns: Cross (+), Border, Curly Border and Thing (Mojang logo).
			14w31a		Added five additional patterns: Inverted Halves and Base Gradient.
					Changed banner pattern terminology based on vexillology advice Jeb received from his reddit post.
					Can be used as a fuel in furnaces.
1.8.8			pre		Number of layers attainable by using commands is now limited to 16 per banner.
1.9			15w31a		Magenta banners with a black chevron and inverted chevron are naturally generated on the outside walls of end cities.
			15w33c		Banners can be used to apply patterns to shields.
1.11			16w33a		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 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		Palette changes added.
			pre6		"Chief fess" and "base fess" banners are now just "chief" and "base" banners.
Upcoming Pocket Edition
1.2			build 1		Added banners.
Console Edition
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		Added banners.

Issues

Issues relating to “Banner” are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• A banner is 20 pixels on the bottom, and 40 pixels on the side.
• Banners gently sway, as if swaying in the wind.
  • However, banners lie still when in the nether.
• 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).
• Although it is impossible to add more than 6 patterns to a banner through crafting, up to 16 can be added using commands. When hovered over such a banner in an inventory, only the six bottommost patterns are displayed.
• The Mojang Logo is called "Thing" ingame, which could be considered an alternate translation for mojäng. If you use Google Translate, it translates to "thingys".
• Banner textures are located in \assets\minecraft\textures\entity\banner.
  • There are 34 monochrome textures, each containing all 6 sides of the banner.
  • The texture of the back side is mirrored texture of the front side.
  • Textures are inverted, that's because they're not used as textures, instead they act as masks for re-colored base texture, base.png. That means white is visible, while black is transparent.
• There are two unused item textures for the banner. Instead, the banner displays itself as if it were a block.

Gallery

• 

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

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  Banners in the official 1.8 poster.

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

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

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  All positions and rotations of a banner

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  A banner with the Mojang logo in an item frame.

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  Banners floating outside of an End city tower.

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

Example designs

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  Example of three types of banners, representing the flags of the United Kingdom, United States and Russia.

• 

  Example of banners designed to look like the flags of various countries (as well as a Jolly Roger and a Mojang cape).

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  Examples of banners designed as flags of European countries.

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  Examples of various cross flags including the Union Jack. All flags are technically incorrect but are the closest possible.

• 

  Koinobori made with banners in Minecraft.

Commands

• 

  Example of a cheated-in banner with more than 6 patterns.

• 

  Banner put in the helmet slot by using /replaceitem

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