Banner

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.

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.

Trading
Cartographer and shepherd villagers sell one of 16 blank banners for 3 emeralds as part of their fourth tier trades.

Creative menu
Illager banner can be obtained in creative inventory.

Usage


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 it on a cauldron containing water.

Banners, much like signs, can be placed both on the ground facing in any direction, or on a wall. Banners have no collision mask as they are completely non-solid, so items and mobs can move through them.

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 on one placed on the ground. This makes it possible to overlap another solid block on the top half of a banner.

When a banner is placed on a vertical block it's position is set by the top block, and it is possible to place it so it appears half buried.

Banners can also be placed in item frames, where they simply appear as their item model.

Water and lava will 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 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.

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.

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  tag using the  command on the banner block.

Map Marker
Right-clicking with a Map on a banner will place a marker of the banner's position on that map. The marker will have the same colour as the banner's base, and will not have any decorations. The marker remains even after the banner is destroyed. If the banner is Renamed, the name will show above the marker.

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. As of 18w43a, a loom will be used to make patterns instead. However, in Bedrock Edition, the patterns can still be made in crafting tables.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, banners use the following data values:

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

Trivia



 * A banner is 20 pixels on the bottom, and 40 pixels on the side.
 * Banners gently sway in the Overworld, as if swaying in the wind, or the banner will lie still.
 * 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.
 * An illager banner cannot be perfectly replicated via crafting, because its design consists of 8 patterns.
 * 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".
 * 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 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.
 * In the Legacy Console Edition, the icon for the banner is turned the other way, but the patterns are not mirrored.
 * In Bedrock Edition, banners are considered as items because dropping it on the ground will reveal that the block does not rotate like normal blocks. This is because the banner had an item sprite and items never rotated when idle.

Commands
Prapor Banner Estandarte Bannière 旗 현수막 Banier Sztandar Estandarte Флаг 旗帜