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Purple Banner

Purple Banner is a tall decorative purple 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

purple_banner

Purple Banner at a glance

Purple Banner comes from crafting, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. A single slot takes 16 Purple Banner, a hotbar row 144, and 864 fill a double chest. Feed Purple Banner to a furnace and 1.5 smelts follow, 24 from a stack of 16.

Purple Banner owes its colour to purple dye. It has no plant of its own: mixing one blue dye with one red dye makes two. On the hardness scale Purple Banner sits at 1. Reach for an axe if you want Purple Banner fast; the wooden one already drops it. There is no second figure for Purple Banner; explosions meet 1 too. It sits between Pumpkin and Purple Bed in Utility Blocks, number 253 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
StickStick
Purple BannerPurple Banner

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

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

Notes

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

Frequently asked questions about Purple Banner

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

    How do you get Purple Banner in Minecraft?

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

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

    Can Purple Banner be used as fuel?

    Purple Banner in the bottom slot gives you 15 seconds of heat, which is 1.5 items apiece. Set against its recipe, Purple Banner carries the heat that Purple Wool and Stick would have given. Stick alone burns 5 seconds, and Purple Banner carries that heat forward.

  3. The purple dye that goes into Purple Banner, beside Purple Banner itself

    What dye does Purple Banner need?

    Purple dye is what Purple Banner needs. It has no plant of its own: mixing one blue dye with one red dye makes two for Purple Banner.

  4. How long does Purple Banner take to break?

    1 hardness is one number on Purple Banner, and 1 blast resistance is the other number on it. With both figures at 1, Purple Banner is not something you rely on for protection. Reach for an axe if you want Purple Banner fast; the wooden one already drops it. Java 26.2 records Purple Banner with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

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

    What is Purple Banner used for?

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

  6. 16 Purple Banner drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Purple Banner can you stack?

    96 Purple Wool and 16 Stick is what 16 Purple Banner costs, so filling a single slot is 16 crafts.

Building with it

A Purple Banner needs six purple wool, and purple dye is always blue mixed with red. It is the flag colour of end-game builds, where the palette already leans on purpur and obsidian, and its dark background suits pale patterns applied at a loom.

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