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How to Craft Brown Banner in Minecraft

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

A Brown Banner comes from 6 Brown Wool and 1 Stick, worked on a Crafting Table. The pattern to copy is six Brown Wool in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. A single craft gives you 1 Brown Banner. Brown Banners double as furnace fuel: 300 ticks each, so 43 of them smelt a full stack of 64.

Brown Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

The Yield Per Stack

64 brown wool is 10 crafts here, or 10 brown banners once the grid stops. On top of that: 10 sticks. That leaves 4 brown wool with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Brown Wool6xDye wool or shear brown sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

Collect 6x Brown Wool (dye wool or shear brown 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 Brown Wool and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Brown Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Brown Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Brown Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Brown Banner

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

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 6x Brown Wool and 1x Stick. Start with the Brown Wool: dye wool or shear brown sheep.

Uses for Brown Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Brown Banner in Minecraft?
To craft a Brown Banner you need 6 Brown Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Brown Banner.
What do you need to make a Brown Banner from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Brown Banner costs 6 Brown Wool and 2 Planks. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.
Where do you find the materials for a Brown Banner?
Each ingredient in a Brown Banner has its own source. Brown Wool: dye wool or shear brown sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Brown Banners do you get from one craft?
The Brown Banner recipe makes one Brown Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Brown Banner in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Brown Banner goes by minecraft:brown_banner; brown_banner without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Brown Banner?
/give @p brown_banner gives you a Brown Banner. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 16 on the end for a whole stack.
Which material does a Brown Banner need the most of?
A Brown Banner needs more Brown Wool than anything else: 6 Brown Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Brown Banner?
Minecraft 1.8 is the oldest release that calls the brown banner by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The current release still makes a Brown Banner exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Brown Wool and 1 Stick in, 1 Brown Banner out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.8 and in nothing older. 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 Brown Banner per craft against the stack size.

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