All Banner Patterns in Minecraft and How to Get Them

Most banner decoration happens with the loom's built-in shapes, stripes, crosses and borders that any player can apply for the price of a dye. The banner pattern items are the exception: ten collectable designs, from a simple flower to the Mojang logo itself, that you have to craft, buy or pry out of dangerous structures. They sit in a slot in the loom, stamp their design onto the banner, and, best of all, are never consumed.

How Pattern Items Work

Put a banner in the loom's banner slot, a dye beside it, and the pattern item in the bottom slot, and the preview shows your design. Take the finished banner out and the pattern item stays yours to reuse forever. A banner holds a maximum of six layers, and pattern items are how you cheat that economy: one special design in a single layer instead of three or four basic shapes stacked to fake it. Order matters, too. Lay borders and backgrounds first, then finish with a bold central charge so it sits visibly on top. Finished banners can also be copied by combining them with a blank banner of the same base colour, no extra dye needed.

The Crafted Patterns

The Flower Charge is the beginner's pattern, since oxeye daisies grow all over plains and meadows. The Creeper Charge is a project: you need a charged creeper, made by striking a creeper with lightning, most reliably via a Channeling trident in a thunderstorm, and have it blow up another creeper to drop its head. The Thing asks the boldest price in the game, an enchanted golden apple, though ancient cities and trial chambers have made that treasure slightly less mythical. On Java, Field Masoned and Bordure Indented are simply part of the loom's standard design list; the craftable items are a Bedrock route to the same designs.

The Found and Traded Patterns

The Globe is the only pattern money can buy, and levelling a cartographer to master is honest work that also unlocks explorer maps. The Snout means Nether raiding, with piglin brutes guarding your prize. Guster and Flow are the collectors' endgame: Flow in particular sits behind the full ominous trial gauntlet, bottle, Trial Omen, ominous spawners and key, before the ominous vault even rolls its 15%.

Making the Most of Six Layers

Think of each layer as expensive. Gradients applied early give a banner depth for one layer; a pattern item gives you a detailed centrepiece for one layer; simple stripes and cantons from the standard list fill and frame. Keep your pattern items in a chest beside the loom, because a pattern library, once collected, is a permanent creative asset for every banner, shield display and clan flag you will ever make.