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How to Craft Red Banner in Minecraft

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

A Red Banner comes from 6 Red Wool and 1 Stick, worked on a Crafting Table. Laid out, that is six Red Wool in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. Expect 1 Red Banner from every craft. As fuel these are worth 300 ticks apiece: 43 of them clear a stack of 64.

Red Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

Counting The Stack

One stack is 10 goes at 6 red wool each, which totals 10 red banners. The recipe wants 10 sticks beside it. Short by one craft: 4 red wool left.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Red Wool6xDye wool or shear red sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

Gather 6x Red Wool (dye wool or shear red 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 Red Wool and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Red Bannerthis page

Gather this first

6Red Wool2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Red Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    Red Banner

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

Tips & Notes

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

Uses for Red Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Red Banner in Minecraft?
6 Red Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Red Banner. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Red Banner.
What do you need to make a Red Banner from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Red Banner comes down to 6 Red Wool and 2 Planks. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
Where do you find the materials for a Red Banner?
A Red Banner draws its parts from several different places. Red Wool: dye wool or shear red sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Red Banners do you get from one craft?
The Red Banner recipe makes one Red Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for Red Banner in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Red Banner goes by minecraft:red_banner; red_banner without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Red Banner?
/give @p red_banner gives you a Red Banner. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 16 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Red Banner recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Red Banner takes 6 Red Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
Which material does a Red Banner need the most of?
A Red Banner needs more Red Wool than anything else: 6 Red Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Red Banner?
As far back as the language files go, the red banner appears under this name in Minecraft 1.8 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The Red Banner recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

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

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