Purple Banner — Minecraft block

Overview

Purple 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.

Minecraft classifies Purple Banner as a coloured block. Purple Banner has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 1 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.

Any tool works, and so do bare hands. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. It is transparent, which matters when you are managing light levels.

With a blast resistance of only 1 it will not survive an explosion. The stack limit is 16, so plan inventory space. The recipe calls for Purple Wool and Stick.

It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the purple set

How long it takes to break

Purple Banner sits at hardness 1: 1.5 seconds per block with your fists, 0.2 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron manages 0.25 seconds and diamond 0.2, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

The drop does not depend on the tool — bare hands work as well as anything — so the table below is purely about speed.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 4 times the unenchanted rate.

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

Purple Banner has a blast resistance of 1, so any explosion nearby destroys it. It lets light through and emits no light of its own. Stack size is 16. Fire spreads to it readily (encouragement 60, burn 20), so keep it away from lava and away from anything you would rather not lose. The block is tagged for axes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any
Flammable: Yes (60/20)