Banners are one of the most customizable decorative items in Minecraft. Players can put a huge number of patterns on it, in a lot of colors. However, that also makes creating a banner with the exact patterns you want fairly tricky. In this article, Gurugamer.com is going to showcase a complete guide on how to get banner patterns in Minecraft 1.19 update.
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1. How to obtain banners in Minecraft 1.19
Banners can be crafted from six wool and a stick in a pattern resembling a sign. The wool blocks need to be the same color - it would become the color of the banner.
Players can also buy banners from expert cartographer and shepherd villagers for some emeralds.
Illagers that spawn carrying an ominous banner / illager banner always drop it upon death.
2. How to get banner patterns in Minecraft 1.19
Players can apply up to 16 colors on a banner, in a number of patterns. Each banner can have up to 6 patterns, placed on top of each other. The last pattern added can be washed off by using a water cauldron.
Banners can be copied with a blank banner to make multiple identical banners. Therefore, players only need to create one banner and then copy them into all the blank banners they have. Both banners must have the same base color, and the one having a pattern copied onto it must have no preexisting pattern.
Create a Loom Block
In Java Edition, players need to create a Loom block to craft banners. They can be found in village shepherd houses or crafted with 2 strings and 2 planks. Players can skip this step in Bedrock Edition as they can just use a crafting table instead.
How to apply banner patterns with a loom
A loom has 3 slots:
- A banner
- Dye
- Optional banner pattern item
When a banner and dye are put in, players can pick a number of pre-designed patterns on the GUI. The applied design will be shown at the bottom.
How to get special banner patterns
There are 8 optional banner pattern items: Flower Charge, Creeper Charge, Skull Charge, Thing, Snout, Globe, Field Masoned, and Bordure Indented. The last two are Bedrock exclusive patterns.
| Banner Pattern | How To Obtain |
|---|---|
| Thing | Paper + Enchanted Golden Apple |
| Skull | Paper + Wither Skeleton Skull |
| Creeper | Paper + Creeper Head |
| Flower | Paper + Oxeye Daisy |
| Field Masoned | Paper + Bricks |
| Bordure Indented | Paper + Vines |
| Globe | Trading with a master-level cartographer villager for a price of 8 emeralds. |
| Snout | Obtained in the Bastion Remnant as loot from chests (10%) |
How to make dye
To have access to colored banners, crafters need to have dyes. Here is the full list of dyes in the game and what items make each dye type:
| Color of Dye | How to Obtain |
| White Dye | Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley |
| Light Gray Dye | Azure Bluet, Oxeye Daisy, White Tulip, or combining White Dye with Gray Dye |
| Gray Dye | Combining Black Dye/Ink Sac with Bone Meal/White Dye |
| Black Dye | Ink Sacs or Wither Rose |
| Brown Dye | Cocoa Beans |
| Red Dye | Poppy, Rose Bush, Red Tulip, or Beetroots |
| Orange Dye | Orange Tulip or combining Red Dye and Yellow Dye |
| Yellow Dye | Dandelions or Sunflowers |
| Lime Dye | Combining Green Dye and White Dye or smelting Sea Pickles |
| Green Dye | Smelting Cactus |
| Cyan Dye | Combining Green Dye and Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye |
| Light Blue Dye | Combining Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye with Bone Meal/White Dye |
| Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli |
| Purple Dye | Combining Red Dye with Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye |
| Magenta Dye | Lilac, Allium, or combining Purple Dye and Pink Dye |
| Pink Dye | Peony, Pink Tulip, or combining Red Dye and White Dye |
3. How to apply banner patterns with a crafting table?
In Minecraft Bedrock, it is possible to apply banner patterns directly using a crafting table instead of a loom. However, this process consumes a lot of dyes, unlike using a loom.
Gradients & Borders Banner
Shapes Banner
Halves Banner
Stripes Banner
4. What are the uses of Banners?
Creating map markers
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.
Applying patterns to shields
Players can fuse a shield with a patterned banner to apply its decorations to the surface of the shield. The shield pattern has a smaller resolution than the banner pattern, causing them to look different or offset.
The banner is consumed in this process. The shield must have no pre-existing patterns and this process does not change existing durability or enchantments on the shield.
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