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How to Craft Black Banner in Minecraft

Black Banner in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Decoration. Minecraft has used the name Black Banner since 1.8.

You need 6 Black Wool and 1 Stick, plus a Crafting Table to assemble them on. Laid out, that is six Black Wool in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. Expect 1 Black Banner from every craft. As fuel these are worth 300 ticks apiece: 43 of them clear a stack of 64.

Black Banner Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Black Banner is minecraft:black_banner. In commands the namespace may be left off, so black_banner works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p black_banner
Give a full stack of 16
/give @p black_banner 16
Give it to a named player
/give Steve black_banner 1

Cheats have to be on for Black Banner to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Black Banners are decorative blocks that can display up to 6 patterns applied with a loom. Black Banner uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Black Banner since 1.8, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with black wool (dye wool or shear black sheep) and stick (craft from planks).

Counting The Stack

One stack is 10 goes at 6 black wool each, which totals 10 black banners. The recipe wants 10 sticks beside it. The box keeps 4 black wool.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Black Wool6xDye wool or shear black sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

Gather 6x Black Wool (dye wool or shear black sheep) and Stick (craft from planks), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

2 Planks makes 4 Stick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 6 Black Wool and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Black Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Black Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Black Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Black Banner

Minecraft crafting recipe for Black Banner: 6 x Black Wool, 1 x Stick in a crafting table, making 1 Black Banner.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 6x Black Wool and 1x Stick before you open the Crafting Table. Black Wool: dye wool or shear black sheep.

Uses for Black Banner

  • Decoration
  • Map markers when used on cartography table
  • Applying patterns with loom

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Black Banner on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Black Banner in Minecraft?
The list for a Black Banner is short: 6 Black Wool and 1 Stick, worked at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Black Banner.
What do you need to make a Black Banner from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Black Banner comes down to 6 Black Wool and 2 Planks. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
Where do you find the materials for a Black Banner?
The parts of a Black Banner do not all come from one place. Black Wool: dye wool or shear black sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Black Banners do you get from one craft?
The Black Banner recipe makes one Black Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Black Banner in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Black Banner goes by minecraft:black_banner; black_banner without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Black Banner?
The command for Black Banner is /give @p black_banner. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p black_banner 16 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Which material does a Black Banner need the most of?
A Black Banner needs more Black Wool than anything else: 6 Black Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Black Banner?
As far back as the language files go, the black banner appears under this name in Minecraft 1.8 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Black Wool and 1 Stick in, 1 Black Banner out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.8 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Black Banner per craft against the stack size.

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