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Many national flags are just stripes, a circle or a cross, which is exactly what Minecraft banners are good at. This gallery recreates a set of flags as banners, rendered with the real pattern textures, and gives you the loom layer list and a ready /give command for each.
Click any flag to see its build: the base banner colour plus each pattern and dye in the order you apply them at a loom. The /give command builds the whole thing at once if you have cheats on or are in creative.
Designs built from thirds, halves, a centred circle or a cross are exact. Flags with off-centre crosses or fine detail are marked approx because they cannot be reproduced perfectly with banner patterns.
In survival you build a banner design at a loom: place the base banner, a dye, and an optional banner pattern item, then pick the pattern. Repeat for each layer, up to six. The layer lists here tell you which pattern and dye to use at each step, bottom to top, so you can follow along without guessing.
Use these as wall decorations to mark embassies and nations on a server, as map markers (name a banner and right-click a map at a cartography table), or as shield emblems. The same techniques let you design your own flags once you know the patterns.
Start with a banner of the base colour, then apply each pattern layer at a loom using the matching dye. Click any flag in the gallery to see its exact layer list, in order, plus a ready /give command that builds the finished banner instantly in creative or with cheats on. In survival, apply the layers one at a time at a loom.
Flags made of stripes, halves, a centred circle or a cross reproduce exactly, because banners have patterns for all of those. Flags with off-centre crosses, fine emblems or many colours cannot be reproduced perfectly with the 6 survival layers, so those are stylised approximations and are labelled approx in the gallery.
In survival you can apply up to 6 pattern layers on top of the base colour at a loom. With commands or in creative you can stack up to 16 layers using the banner_patterns component, which the /give commands here use. Most flag designs need only two or three layers.
Yes. In Java Edition, combine a banner with a shield in a crafting grid to copy the banner's design onto the shield. So any flag here can become a shield emblem. The banner is consumed in the process, so make a spare if you want both.
Banner layers are drawn from the bottom up, so each new pattern is painted over the ones below it. The same set of patterns in a different order can produce a different result. The layer lists here are in the correct bottom-to-top order, matching the /give command.
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