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Minecraft Visual & Design Tools
Design banners, browse paintings and music discs, generate fonts, and translate to the enchanting alphabet.
128 entries · Minecraft 26.3 · generated from Mojang's own data files
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Browse all guides →How to make a banner in Minecraft: 6 wool, 1 stick, then the loom
The 26.3 banner recipe, the 42 patterns a loom can add and the 10 that need a pattern item, where each item comes from, and how to copy, undo and map-mark a banner.
How to make a shield in Minecraft, and the 0.25 s before it blocks
Six planks and one iron ingot make a shield in 26.3. What it blocks, what passes through it, why an axe disables it for 5 seconds, and how to add a banner.
Painting sizes: 34 of the 51 are square, and only 5 are taller than they are wide
51 paintings across 9 sizes, needing 321 blocks of wall to hang them all. A 1-wide, 2-tall gap fits exactly three of them — and five paintings credit no artist at all.
Banner patterns: the six-layer limit, loom order, and copying a design
A loom allows six layers but a give command allows more. Here is how layers stack, which patterns need a banner pattern item, and how to duplicate a banner exactly.