Banner command generator for Minecraft

Pick a base colour, add pattern layers and watch the banner change. Copy the /give command for the banner or a shield with the same design. No loom, no pattern items, and more than six layers if you want them.

Base colour

Layers (the first one is drawn first, later ones on top)

Item Version Player Count

Picture patterns (creeper, skull, flower and the others marked "picture") show as a plain symbol in this preview; the game draws the real picture.

How to use the command

Commands need cheats on (single player: Open to LAN, Allow Cheats) or operator rights on a server.
The command is longer than the chat box allows once you add several layers. Paste it into a command block instead: /give @p command_block, place it, paste, power it with a button.
Pick the version your world runs. 1.20.5 changed how items store their data, so the two kinds of command do not work in each other's versions.

Good to know

A loom stops at six layers. A command can give you more; the extra layers show on the banner as usual.
A shield with a banner design: pick "Shield". It gets the same base colour and layers.
Flow and Guster need 1.21 or newer, Snout (piglin) 1.16 or newer.
In survival, picture patterns and Field Masoned / Bordure Indented need a banner pattern item in the loom. A command does not.

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