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How to Craft Gray Banner in Minecraft

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

A Gray Banner costs you 6 Gray Wool and 1 Stick, put together at a Crafting Table. Place them as six Gray Wool in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. Done once, that is 1 Gray Banner. As fuel these are worth 300 ticks apiece: 43 of them clear a stack of 64.

Gray Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

Stack Maths

Counted per stack: 64 gray wool, 10 crafts, 10 gray banners. Have 10 sticks ready as well. Short by one craft: 4 gray wool left.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Gray Wool6xDye wool or shear gray sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

For Gray Banner: 6x Gray Wool (dye wool or shear gray sheep) and Stick (craft from planks), brought 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 Gray Wool and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Gray Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Gray Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Gray Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Gray Banner

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

Tips & Notes

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

Uses for Gray Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Gray Banner in Minecraft?
The list for a Gray Banner is short: 6 Gray Wool and 1 Stick, worked at a Crafting Table. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces one Gray Banner.
What do you need to make a Gray Banner from scratch?
Counting all the way down, a Gray Banner comes to 6 Gray Wool and 2 Planks, spread over 2 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for a Gray Banner?
The materials for a Gray Banner each come from somewhere different. Gray Wool: dye wool or shear gray sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Gray Banners do you get from one craft?
The Gray Banner recipe makes one Gray Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Gray Banner in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Gray Banner goes by minecraft:gray_banner; gray_banner without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Gray Banner?
Use /give @p gray_banner to put a Gray Banner in your own inventory, or /give @p gray_banner 16 for a full stack of 16. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Gray Banner recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Gray Banner takes 6 Gray Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
Which material does a Gray Banner need the most of?
A Gray Banner needs more Gray Wool than anything else: 6 Gray Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Gray Banner?
The name Gray Banner goes back to Minecraft 1.8, and no older release we can read uses it. 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 Gray Wool and 1 Stick in, 1 Gray 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 Gray Banner per craft against the stack size.

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