Overview
Green Banner is one of the 16 variants of White Banner: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the White Banner page.
Green Banner is a coloured block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Green Banner. Its hardness of 1 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
You can break it by hand without losing the drop. It drops as the same block you mined. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it.
It offers almost no protection from explosions (1 blast resistance). One slot holds 16 at most. It is crafted from Green Wool and Stick.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the green set
How long it takes to break
Hardness 1 puts Green Banner at 1.5 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.2 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.
Iron manages 0.25 seconds and diamond 0.2, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.
Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 4 times faster than an unenchanted one.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 1.5 s | 1.5 s | 1.5 s |
| Wooden | 0.75 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | instant |
| Iron | 0.25 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Diamond | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Netherite | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Golden | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | instant |
Properties
Green Banner resists blasts at 1, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. 16 fit in a slot. Fire spreads to it readily (encouragement 60, burn 20), so keep it away from lava and away from anything you would rather not lose. An axe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (60/20)
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Green Banner
Drops
Mined with any, Green Banner drops itself.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Green Banner in Minecraft?
Green Banner is crafted from Green Wool and Stick.
What tool do you need to break Green Banner?
No specific tool is required — Green Banner can be broken by hand.
Is Green Banner blast resistant?
Green Banner has a blast resistance of 1, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Green Banner fit in one stack?
Green Banner stacks to 16, which puts 864 of them in a double chest.
How long does Green Banner take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.2 seconds; by hand it takes 1.5 seconds.
The rest of the set
Green Banner is one of 16. Every other member behaves the same way:
