Banner Guide

Design your banners with numerous patterns with this Guide

Introduction

Welcome To Banner Guide

Banners, are tall decorative blocks, featuring a field that is highly customizable using dyes. This guide will teach you on how to customize your banner, adding layers in Banner to make your own banner design

This guide explains how to design banner it also helps you how to use loom, crafting banner pattern and more about banner. It provide banner designs example with pictures to let you easily do it in your own.

Getting Started

Usage

About Banners

Banners, are tall decorative blocks, featuring a field that is highly customizable using dyes. There are 16 colored blank banners, and numerous patterns each available in each of the 16 colors. A banner can feature up to 6 different patterns. The top layer of a banner (or the last pattern added) can be washed off by using it on a cauldron containing water.

A banner may have up to six patterns, which are overlaid with the last-crafted on top. Any color banner can be used, the color will just be overlayed with the pattern.

Usage

A banners can be use as a decoration to your house, buildings, town, village, roads and any other structure you might like.

Banners are customizable so it can also be use as labeling the areas it can also be use as symbolism like symbolizing the area with the design you made or can be your trademark in the game for multiplayer purpose. Find out any other creative use of this banner by maximizing your imagination throughout the game.

Applying Pattern

About the Loom

Loom is the main item you should need in designing banner, it is use to apply pattern in your banner. Open the loom to see its UI, the image below shows the UI of loom.

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At the left side of the UI, these are different banner patterns you can choose either of those patterns you want to apply in your banner. Select one of these to choose a pattern you want to apply in your banner.

At the right side above the inventroy, you can see the three different slots and 1 separated slot (output slot). These slots have different uses explained below.

• The first slot (slot with banner icon) is where you should place your banner, a banner place here is the banner you want have pattern/s.
• At the second slot is where you should place your dye, a color of the dye is place here will become the color of the pattern selected in the loom when its apply in banner.
• At the third slot is for adding another patterns (it can be emptied or not), here where you should place your “Banner Pattern” to access 6 another different pattern that the loom hasn’t. These are the special pattern.
• The seprated slot is Output slot, after you design your banner here where you should get the banner and move it in your inventory.

The image at the side of Output slot is the preview of banner design, this is what banner looks like with the pattern you selected and a color of the dye you use.

Special pattern are not include in the loom, to have them simply craft Banner Pattern and add them in the third slot then it will add adittional option of pattern in the loom. It can be also automatically place in slot when you select special pattern in the loom, this happen when you already have the Banner Pattern of that pattern in your inventory.

Banner Pattern

There are 6 different special pattern of banner that can only access if you have Banner Pattern these are:

• Creeper Charged: A creeper’s face pattern can be crafted with creeper head and 1 paper
• Flower Charged: A flower design pattern can be crafted with 1 Oxeye daisy and 1 paper
• Skull Charged: A skull design pattern can be crafted with wither head and a paper
• Field Masoned: A brick design patter can be crafted with 1 brick and a paper
• Thing: A Mojang logo pattern can be crafted with 1 enchanted golden apple and a paper
• Indented Bordure: A pattern border that like wave design in edge can be crafted with vines and a paper

How to Apply Pattern in Banner?

Now you’re going to learn how to apply pattern in banner using the loom.

STEP 1: Place your banner in the first slot place any color of banner you desired, the color of the banner is the background color of the banner design.

STEP 2: Choose your desired pattern and place a dye in 2nd slot, a color of the dye will be the color of the pattern you selected and it will print your banner. If you want special pattern use Banner Pattern and place it in third slot. You can see the preview image of banner in the loom.

STEP 3: Move your banner to your inventory from Output slot.

STEP 4: If you want to add another layer of pattern in that banner get that and move it in first slot basically use that banner again then repeat the steps until you’ve finished it.

STEP 5: If you want to remove the last layer of pattern applied in your banner wash it in a cauldron contain with water and the last layer applied will removed. You can do this if you think you’ve applied the wrong pattern.

NOTE: Take note that you can only apply pattern upto 6 layers.

Designing Guide

The picture in the steps of designing banner are provided in each banner design, the numbers are the sequence of applying pattern in banner using the loom.

To know what color of banner you should need, look at the preview image of the banner design then you can see what color of banner is needed.

Banner Pattern have the same texture that’s why in preview image if you see banner pattern it has small icon (creeper head, wither head, oxeye daisy, brick, enchanted golden apple and vine) this represent what kind of Banner Pattern it is. The image below shows the different Banner Pattern and it’s name to let you identify what Banner Pattern is needed in a Banner Design.

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Copying Banner Design

To copy the banner design in this guide prepare your things needed in designing banner, things you need are listed in Preview image of the design. The Steps image shows the step of designing banner follow the sequence of applying pattern using numbers in it.

In the steps you can see banner pattern together with 1 dye, this shows what banner pattern you need to select in loom and what dye you need to use in applying pattern.

You can see some example of banner design that need Banner Pattern but in the steps it doesn’t show which of those steps that need Banner Pattern, only you need to do is just to have that required Banner Pattern and that special pattern will shown in the list of banner patterns in loom, select it and the Banner Pattern will automatically place in Slot 3, so that’s why it doesn’t need to show anymore and also for saving space.

Don’t confuse what color banner you need to use as base banner, you can see that in Preview image it shows what color banner is needed in designing that kind of banner.

Banner Designs

Animals

Panda

Preview:

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Steps:

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