Minecraft banner maker

How to design a Minecraft banner and make it at a loom

This maker lets you plan a banner before you spend any dye. You pick a base color, then stack pattern layers on top. Each new layer is drawn over the ones before it, the same way patterns build up in the game.

Designing your banner

1. Choose a Base color. All 16 dye colors are listed, from White to Pink, and White is the default. This is the color of the banner you craft.
2. Pick a shape in Add pattern and a dye in Pattern color. The pattern color starts on Black.
3. Click + Add layer. The preview updates and the layer appears in the list below the buttons, with a small color swatch.
4. Repeat for more layers. The list reads top to bottom in the order the layers were added, which is the order you will apply them in game.
5. Click the x on a layer to remove it, or Clear to remove all layers. Clear keeps your base color.
6. Click Download PNG to save the design as minecraft-banner.png, 180 × 360 pixels.

Layers can't be reordered. To slip a layer underneath others, remove the layers above it and add them again in the new order.

Pattern names in the game

The tool uses plain labels. The loom uses heraldry names. The shapes here are simplified, so proportions in game may differ a little.

Full colors the whole banner. If it is your first layer, set that color as the base instead and save a layer.

Making it in the game

1. Craft the base: six wool of the base color and one stick.
2. Open a loom. Put the banner in the banner slot and the dye for your first layer in the dye slot.
3. Select the matching pattern and take the result. The dye is used up.
4. Put the new banner back in and repeat for each layer, in the same order as the list.

Some loom patterns, such as Flower Charge, Creeper Charge and Globe, need a banner pattern item in the third slot. That item is not used up. None of the shapes in the table above need one.

In Bedrock Edition most patterns can also be added at a crafting table, though crafting often needs more dye. In Java Edition, patterns are applied at the loom.

The six-layer limit

A banner made in survival can hold up to six pattern layers in both Java and Bedrock Edition. This tool stops at six and shows the count under the layer list, so every design it makes can be built at a loom. Java Edition can show more layers on banners made with commands, but Bedrock Edition displays only six.

Fixing mistakes and making copies

• Wrong last layer. In Java Edition, using a patterned banner on a cauldron with water washes off the top layer and uses one level of water.
• Copies for a base or team. Put the finished banner and a blank banner of the same base color into a crafting grid to copy the design. The blank one must have no patterns yet.

Design tips and common mistakes

• Working out of order. A late layer covers everything under it. Big shapes such as halves and stripes go first, and small shapes such as a Roundel go last.
• Same color on same color. A pattern in the base color is invisible. Pick a contrasting dye, or use it on purpose to cut a shape out of an earlier layer.
• Using all your layers early. Plan the full design here, check the count is six or fewer, then gather the dyes. At a loom you need one dye per layer.

If the design is for a server or clan, the clan name generator can help with a name and tag to match. For colored chat and sign text, see the Minecraft color codes.