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How to Craft Purple Banner in Minecraft

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

Stand at a Crafting Table with 6 Purple Wool and 1 Stick and you can make a Purple Banner. The pattern to copy is six Purple 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 Purple Banner. Short on coal? 300 ticks each means 43 Purple Banners smelt 64 items.

Purple Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

The Yield Per Stack

64 purple wool is 10 crafts here, or 10 purple banners once the grid stops. Bring 10 sticks along for the ride. That leaves 4 purple wool with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Purple Wool6xDye wool or shear purple sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

To make Purple Banner you will gather 6x Purple Wool (dye wool or shear purple sheep) and Stick (craft from planks), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Purple Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Purple Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Purple Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Purple Banner

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

Tips & Notes

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

Uses for Purple Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Purple Banner in Minecraft?
To craft a Purple Banner you need 6 Purple Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Purple Banner.
What do you need to make a Purple Banner from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Purple Banner costs 6 Purple 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 Purple Banner?
The materials for a Purple Banner each come from somewhere different. Purple Wool: dye wool or shear purple sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Purple Banners do you get from one craft?
The Purple Banner recipe makes one Purple Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Purple Banner in Minecraft?
The Purple Banner item ID is minecraft:purple_banner, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write purple_banner on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Purple Banner?
The command for Purple Banner is /give @p purple_banner. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p purple_banner 16 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Purple Banner recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Purple Banner: both want 6 Purple Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
Which material does a Purple Banner need the most of?
A Purple Banner needs more Purple Wool than anything else: 6 Purple Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Purple Banner?
Minecraft 1.8 is the oldest release that calls the purple banner by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

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

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