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How to Craft White Banner in Minecraft

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

A White Banner comes from 6 White Wool and 1 Stick, worked on a Crafting Table. In the grid that is six White 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 White Banner. Fuel value is 300 ticks, putting 43 White Banners behind a full stack of 64.

White Banner Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

The Full Stack Sum

A full stack of 64 white wool gives 10 white banners, across 10 crafts at 6 for 1. The recipe wants 10 sticks beside it. Short by one craft: 4 white wool left.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
White Wool6xDye wool or shear white sheep
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

White Banner needs 6x White Wool (dye wool or shear white sheep) and Stick (craft from planks), worked together at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Stick, then White Wool, then the White Banner. All in: 24 String and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    StringString246White Woolrepeat 6x
  3. 3
    White Bannerthis page

Gather this first

StringString24String2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x White Wool

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    White Banner

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

Tips & Notes

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

Uses for White Banner

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a White Banner in Minecraft?
6 White Wool and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a White Banner. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces one White Banner.
What do you need to make a White Banner from scratch?
Counting all the way down, a White Banner comes to 24 String and 2 Planks, spread over 3 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for a White Banner?
The materials for a White Banner each come from somewhere different. White Wool: dye wool or shear white sheep. Stick: craft from planks.
What should I craft first for a White Banner?
For a White Banner, start with a Stick: 2 Planks gives you 4 Sticks. After that the order is White Wool, and then the White Banner itself.
How many White Banners do you get from one craft?
The White Banner recipe makes one White Banner per craft.
What is the item ID for White Banner in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the White Banner goes by minecraft:white_banner; white_banner without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for White Banner?
Use /give @p white_banner to put a White Banner in your own inventory, or /give @p white_banner 16 for a full stack of 16. Cheats have to be on.
How many crafting steps does a White Banner take?
A White Banner takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: Stick and White Wool, and then the White Banner. The chain section above walks through them in order.
Which material does a White Banner need the most of?
A White Banner needs more White Wool than anything else: 6 White Wool out of 7 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the White Banner?
The name White 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. Today the game builds it from 6 White Wool and 1 Stick, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 White Wool and 1 Stick in, 1 White Banner out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.8 is the earliest release that calls it this. 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 White Banner per craft against the stack size.

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