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Brown Banner

Brown Banner is a tall decorative brown 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

brown_banner

Brown Banner at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Brown Banner: a block out of crafting. Carrying Brown Banner is cheap: 16 to a slot, 144 across the hotbar, 432 in a chest. As fuel Brown Banner is worth 1.5 smelts, so a stack of 16 smelts 24 items.

Brown Banner owes its colour to brown dye. Cocoa beans gives one. The game rates Brown Banner at 1 hardness. An axe is the right tool for Brown Banner, and any tier of it collects the block. There is no second figure for Brown Banner; explosions meet 1 too. It sits between Bricks and Brown Bed in Utility Blocks, number 63 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
StickStick
Brown BannerBrown Banner

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

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

Notes

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

Frequently asked questions about Brown Banner

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

    How do you get Brown Banner in Minecraft?

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

  2. Brown Banner beside a furnace, which is where its 15 seconds of burning go

    Can Brown Banner be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Brown Banner burns 15 seconds apiece, or 1.5 items out of a single one. Since one craft turns Brown Wool and Stick into Brown Banner, a furnace fed that way runs on Brown Wool and Stick. Before it becomes Brown Banner, Brown Wool burns 5 seconds by itself.

  3. Brown Banner on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Brown Banner used for?

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

  4. The brown dye that goes into Brown Banner, beside Brown Banner itself

    What dye does Brown Banner need?

    Brown dye is what Brown Banner needs. Cocoa beans gives one for Brown Banner.

  5. 16 Brown Banner drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Brown Banner can you stack?

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

  6. How long does Brown Banner take to break?

    Hardness 1 is what the game stores for Brown Banner, next to blast resistance 1 on it. With both figures at 1, Brown Banner is not something you rely on for protection. An axe is the right tool for Brown Banner, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 records Brown Banner with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

Building with it

A Brown Banner uses six brown wool, and cocoa beans are its only dye source. The colour reads as leather or old cloth rather than paint, which makes it the background of choice for rustic builds where a bright flag would look wrong.