Decoration · Loom · 1.21

How to Make a Banner

Six wool and a stick give you a blank flag. A loom then layers dye after dye into a crest that is entirely your own, no two bases need ever match.

The recipe

Six wool of one colour up top, a single stick beneath. The wool colour is the banner’s base.

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Grab the grid on Astroworld crafting or look up wool and dyes.

Designing at a loom

A crafting table only makes the blank banner. The loom is where the design happens, with a live preview as you add each dye.

Open a loom

Right-click a loom to open the design grid: a banner slot, a dye slot, and a pattern-item slot.

Pick a pattern

Add a dye and choose from stripes, crosses, borders, gradients, chevrons and roundels in the preview.

Layer it up

Repeat to stack up to six layers. Special items add emblems: a creeper head, a wither skull, an oxeye flower.

A few of the millions

Sixteen base colours, six layers each, special emblems on top.

What banners are for

Decoration

Hang them on walls or stand them on the floor to flag a base, a shop or a team colour.

On a shield

Paint your crest onto a shield by combining the two, so your gear matches your banner.

Map markers

Name a banner and place it, then right-click it with a map to mark that exact spot.

Copies

Clone a finished design onto blank banners so a whole build flies the same flag.

Quick answers

What is the recipe?

Six wool of a single colour in the top two rows, with one stick in the bottom centre. That makes one banner of that colour.

How do I add a pattern?

Use a loom, not a crafting table. Place the banner and a dye, pick a pattern in the preview, and take the result. Repeat to layer.

How many layers can I stack?

Up to six pattern layers on one banner, on top of the base colour. That is millions of possible designs across the sixteen colours.

Can I copy a banner?

Yes. In the loom or crafting grid, pair a fully patterned banner with blank banners of the same colour to clone the design.

Can I put one on a shield?

Yes. Combine a banner with a shield on the crafting grid and the pattern is painted onto the shield face.

Do banners do anything useful?

Beyond decoration they mark locations on a map when you name and place them, perfect for labelling bases and routes.

Paint your crest onto a shieldlook up the banner, loom and every dye in the items database, or open the crafting recipes for the base banner.

Layers, loom order and where banners are useful

Six layers is the ceiling

A banner takes six pattern layers on top of its base colour, and the loom will not add a seventh. Because each layer is painted over the last, the order decides the picture: a border added first disappears under a solid stripe, and the only fix is starting again with a fresh banner.

The loom is cheaper than the crafting grid

Every pattern can be made in a crafting table, but the loom needs one dye per layer instead of a full grid of them and shows you a preview before you commit. There is no reason to craft patterns by hand once you have two planks and a piece of string.

Banners mark maps and shields

Place a banner in the world and use a map on it, and the banner appears on that map with its colour and name. That turns banners into the only player placed marker the map system recognises, which is worth more on a large base than the decoration is.