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Blue Banner

Blue Banner is a tall decorative blue block that can display up to six layered patterns applied with a loom. It can also mark locations on maps.

Stack Size

16

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.8

Item ID

blue_banner

Blue Banner at a glance

Crafting gives you Blue Banner, a block filed under Utility Blocks. 16 Blue Banner fit in a slot, 144 across the hotbar, 864 in a double chest. A furnace takes Blue Banner too: 1.5 smelts apiece, 24 per full stack.

Blue Banner owes its colour to blue dye. A cornflower or lapis lazuli each give one. The game rates Blue Banner at 1 hardness. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. Reach for an axe if you want Blue Banner fast; the wooden one already drops it. It sits between Block of Quartz and Blue Bed in Utility Blocks, number 51 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
StickStick
Blue BannerBlue Banner

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Blue Banner burns for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Blue Banner

Notes

Crafted from 6 matching-color wool and 1 stick. Patterns are added at a loom using dyes.

Frequently asked questions about Blue Banner

  1. Blue Wool, Stick going into Blue Banner, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Blue Banner in Minecraft?

    Blue Banner is crafted from Blue Wool and Stick at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. 16 Blue Banner drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Blue Banner can you stack?

    16 Blue Banner fills a slot, and that slot costs 96 Blue Wool and 16 Stick, which is 16 crafts at the crafting table.

  3. Blue Banner beside a furnace, which is where its 15 seconds of burning go

    Can Blue Banner be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Blue Banner burns 15 seconds apiece, or 1.5 items out of a single one. Since one craft turns Blue Wool and Stick into Blue Banner, a furnace fed that way runs on Blue Wool and Stick. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Blue Banner carries that heat forward.

  4. How long does Blue Banner take to break?

    Mining Blue Banner works against 1; explosions on it work against 1. Most blocks share the pattern on Blue Banner, and it is not one of the exceptions. Reach for an axe if you want Blue Banner fast; the wooden one already drops it. Java 26.2 stores Blue Banner with those figures unchanged, so it reads the same here.

  5. Blue Banner on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Blue Banner used for?

    Blue Banner is a tall decorative blue block that can display up to six layered patterns applied with a loom. It can also mark locations on maps.

  6. The blue dye that goes into Blue Banner, beside Blue Banner itself

    What dye does Blue Banner need?

    Blue dye is what Blue Banner needs. A cornflower or lapis lazuli each give one for Blue Banner.

Building with it

A Blue Banner takes six blue wool, dyed from cornflowers or lapis lazuli. It is dark, even and easy to make once a lapis supply runs, which is why blue is a common team colour on servers. A banner also holds its pattern when carried into a map, so a blue one marks a base on the map too.