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How to Craft Blue Banner in Minecraft

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

Bring 6 Blue Wool and 1 Stick to a Crafting Table and you have a Blue Banner. The grid takes six Blue Wool in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. That comes out as 1 Blue Banner. Blue Banners double as furnace fuel: 300 ticks each, so 43 of them smelt a full stack of 64.

Blue Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Minecraft has used the name Blue 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 blue wool (dye wool or shear blue sheep) and stick (craft from planks).

Per Stack

Empty a stack of 64 blue wool into this and 10 blue banners come back. Have 10 sticks ready as well. That leaves 4 blue wool with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Blue Wool6xDye wool or shear blue sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

Collect 6x Blue Wool (dye wool or shear blue sheep) and Stick (craft from planks) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Blue Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Blue Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Blue Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Blue Banner

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

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 6x Blue Wool and 1x Stick. Plan the Blue Wool first: dye wool or shear blue sheep.

Uses for Blue Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Blue Banner in Minecraft?
a Blue Banner asks for 6 Blue Wool and 1 Stick, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Blue Banner.
What do you need to make a Blue Banner from scratch?
Gather 6 Blue Wool and 2 Planks and you have everything a Blue Banner needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Where do you find the materials for a Blue Banner?
Each ingredient in a Blue Banner has its own source. Blue Wool: dye wool or shear blue sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Blue Banners do you get from one craft?
The Blue Banner recipe makes one Blue Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Blue Banner in Minecraft?
Blue Banner is registered as minecraft:blue_banner. Commands accept the short form blue_banner as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Blue Banner?
The command for Blue Banner is /give @p blue_banner. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p blue_banner 16 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Which material does a Blue Banner need the most of?
A Blue Banner needs more Blue Wool than anything else: 6 Blue Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Blue Banner?
Minecraft 1.8 is the earliest release that spells out blue banner. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Blue Wool and 1 Stick in, 1 Blue 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 Blue Banner per craft against the stack size.

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