Purple Banner Crafting Recipes in Minecraft 1 20 Trails and Tales
Purple banners have long been a favorite for builders who want a splash of royal color on walls gates and signage. The Trails and Tales update brings fresh nuance to banner crafting with more flexible color workflows and wider patterning possibilities. In this guide we explore practical recipes for creating purple banners and how to combine base color work with decorative patterns for bold looks on any build 🧱
Base purple banners
Getting started is simple. Craft a plain banner using the classic recipe of 6 banners worth of wool and a stick, then use a loom to set the base color to purple. The loom is a versatile tool in 1 20 that lets you layer base color and complex patterns with a few swipes of your mouse or touchpad. Because purple dye is a color you can mix from its dye ingredients, you can also tint other banner hues toward purple if you want subtle shifts in shade.
Note that a purple banner stores its color in the block state as part of the rotation and pattern system. In practice this means you can rotate a purple banner to align with nearby docks or staircases in exactly 16 discrete orientations. It is a small data detail, but it makes banners crisp when you place them along walls or frames for a screenshot ready finish 🌲
Patterning a purple banner
Once you have a purple banner, the loom opens up a world of decorative patterns. You can apply a base purple color and then add one or more pattern colors. Broadly speaking, you have two routes for creative effects. The first uses pattern items to add shapes and borders across the banner, the second leverages multiple colors to create stripes or chevrons that pop against the purple canvas.
- Choose a banner base color as purple on the loom
- Pick a pattern color to layer the first pattern beyond the base
- Apply additional pattern layers with more dye colors to build depth
Popular starting patterns for bold purple banners include a dark border along the edges a broad stripe across the center and diagonal chevrons toward the corners. You can tailor each layer to match the mood of a build from medieval fortress walls to vibrant market stalls. The combination of purple with bright accents creates legible signage even from a distance.
Rotation and layout tips
Rotation plays a key role in banner presentation. Each banner supports 16 rotation states, which means you can fine tune its orientation to line up with doorways fence posts or window frames. For long walls consider repeating the banner with alternating rotations to create a reversible texture. If you are sharing builds with friends on a server using Trails and Tales craft the same banner across areas for a cohesive look 🧰
Purple banners in Trails and Tales invite modular creativity that scales from small aesthetic touches to large themed scenes
Here are a few ready to try ideas that showcase practical use cases for purple banners. First a heraldry style shield for a castle wing using a purple base with a white border and a central purple charge. Second a market stall banner set with purple frames and tassel motifs to signal a trading hub. Third signage for a shipyard row featuring purple stripes that guide players along the dock. The key is to pair a readable pattern with a vibrant purple base to keep legibility high even in dim lantern light 🧭
Community packs and resource collections often expand the banner ecosystem with new pattern items or color kits. If you are dabbling in modded worlds, look for banner pattern expansions that slot into the loom or alternative crafting interfaces. The purple banner remains a favorite because it scales well with both vanilla builds and modded textures. Try coordinating with friends to craft a shared banner library for a server or a themed adventure map.
Under the hood the purple banner is a block with a state machine that stores both rotation and pattern data. The core interactions in 1 20 rely on a simple loom or dye crafting workflow, but the resulting blocks carry a rotation state that can be used to tailor how multiple banners line up at a gate or along a wall. If you are curious about advanced world editing or data packs, banners present a friendly entry point to learn about block state management and visual design in Minecraft
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