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How to Craft Light Blue Banner in Minecraft

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

The bill for a Light Blue Banner is 6 Light Blue Wool and 1 Stick, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. In the grid that is six Light Blue Wool in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. The grid returns 1 Light Blue Banner. Burn it instead and one gives 300 ticks, which means 43 Light Blue Banners take a stack of 64 all the way through a furnace.

Light Blue Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

The Full Stack Sum

Counted per stack: 64 light blue wool, 10 crafts, 10 light blue banners. You supply 10 sticks to go with it. Short by one craft: 4 light blue wool left.

Materials Needed

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

Gather 6x Light Blue Wool (dye wool or shear light blue 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 Light Blue Wool and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Light Blue Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Light Blue Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Light Blue Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Light Blue Banner

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

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 6x Light Blue Wool and 1x Stick. Start with the Light Blue Wool: dye wool or shear light blue sheep.

Uses for Light Blue Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Light Blue Banner in Minecraft?
6 Light Blue Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Light Blue Banner. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces one Light Blue Banner.
What do you need to make a Light Blue Banner from scratch?
Counting all the way down, a Light Blue Banner comes to 6 Light Blue Wool and 2 Planks, spread over 2 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for a Light Blue Banner?
Each ingredient in a Light Blue Banner has its own source. Light Blue Wool: dye wool or shear light blue sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Light Blue Banners do you get from one craft?
The Light Blue Banner recipe makes one Light Blue Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Light Blue Banner in Minecraft?
Light Blue Banner is registered as minecraft:light_blue_banner. Commands accept the short form light_blue_banner as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Light Blue Banner?
Use /give @p light_blue_banner to put a Light Blue Banner in your own inventory, or /give @p light_blue_banner 16 for a full stack of 16. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Light Blue Banner recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Light Blue Banner: both want 6 Light Blue Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
Which material does a Light Blue Banner need the most of?
A Light Blue Banner needs more Light Blue Wool than anything else: 6 Light 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 Light Blue Banner?
The name Light Blue 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. The Light Blue Banner recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

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

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