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🇺🇸 United States Banner

Red base with white horizontal stripes and a blue canton in the top-left. Vanilla banners can't render the 50 stars, but the bands and canton read as the US flag at a glance.

🇺🇸 United States

Base red · 4 layers · good fidelity

Fidelity: good

Pattern stack

Base color: red · 4 layers

OrderPatternColor
1.stripe_topwhite
2.stripe_centerwhite
3.stripe_middlewhite
4.square_top_leftblue

/give shield (26.2)

Craft-free — the shield arrives with the design on it

/give @s minecraft:shield[base_color="red",banner_patterns=[{pattern:"minecraft:stripe_top",color:"white"},{pattern:"minecraft:stripe_center",color:"white"},{pattern:"minecraft:stripe_middle",color:"white"},{pattern:"minecraft:square_top_left",color:"blue"}]] 1

/give wall banner (26.2)

The same pattern stack, as a placeable banner

/give @s minecraft:red_banner[banner_patterns=[{pattern:"minecraft:stripe_top",color:"white"},{pattern:"minecraft:stripe_center",color:"white"},{pattern:"minecraft:stripe_middle",color:"white"},{pattern:"minecraft:square_top_left",color:"blue"}]] 1

How to build it in survival

Loom order, layer by layer

  1. 1. Craft a red banner at a loom (3 wool of the matching color + 1 stick).
  2. 2. Open a loom with the banner, dye, and pattern ingredient.
  3. 3. Apply stripe_top in white.
  4. 4. Apply stripe_center in white.
  5. 5. Apply stripe_middle in white.
  6. 6. Apply square_top_left in blue.
  7. 7. Apply the finished banner to a shield via crafting (banner + shield).

Banners hold a maximum of 6 layers. This design uses 4 — under the limit.

More flags from North America

Same region, same six-layer budget

More Minecraft tools

The rest of the set, for the parts of the build this one doesn't touch

Country Flag Banners Real flags as banner pattern stacks, with the /give command for each. Pixel Circle Generator Circles, ellipses and sphere slices as a block grid you can build from. Item & Block IDs Every Java item and block ID, with stack size and a /give command. Crafting Recipes Every crafting recipe in Minecraft, with its grid, inputs and output.

Frequently asked questions

Loom layers, shields and flag fidelity

How do you make the United States flag in Minecraft? +

Start with a red banner, then apply 4 pattern layers at a loom in the order listed above. The finished banner can be worn on a shield by combining the two in a crafting grid. If you have cheats enabled, the /give command on this page skips the loom entirely.

How accurate is this United States banner? +

This design is rated good fidelity — the main elements of the United States flag are correct, though finer detail is simplified to fit Minecraft's pattern set and six-layer limit.

Does this work in Bedrock Edition? +

The loom steps work identically in Bedrock, so you can build the banner by hand from the layer list. The /give command shown here uses Java Edition component syntax and will not run on Bedrock, which uses a different command format for banner patterns.

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