Banners (decorative)



Banners are a Decorative Furniture item that can be placed on ceilings. They come in red, green, blue, and yellow varieties, along with many collectable non-craftable varieties. All crafted banners are crafted with Silk. They can only be placed on the underside of blocks, but not wooden platforms. Despite being multi-colored, crafted banners do not require any dyes to craft.

Note that banners occupy space like other types of furniture, and thus cannot overlap with other furniture. That is, you can't put a banner "behind" another piece of furniture.

Monster Banners are vanity items that are dropped randomly by various mobs, similarly to Bosses and their corresponding Trophies. Almost every mob in the game drops a banner. Each banner corresponds to the mob it was dropped from, although not every variety of a mob drops its own unique banner. Each banner has a 0.5% chance to drop from its corresponding monster.

Faction Flags are a category of non-craftable banners found in the Dungeon. These are placed by the game to communicate to the players where specific opponents will spawn.

Noncraftable Banners
Non-craftable banners were added in 1.2 and are found in separate areas:

Dungeon Banners
See Faction Flag for more info.

Normal Monster Banners
See Monster Banner for more info.

Hardmode Monster Banners
See Monster Banner for more info.

Console Only Monster Banners
See Monster Banner for more info.

Orientation
Each banner may be placed in a right-facing orientation or a left-facing orientation, but this is not decided by the player. A banner placed in a specific "column" in the world will always face one specific direction, no matter the height. Placing it one block to the left or right will flip the orientation, resulting in alternating left and right facing "columns" which decide the banners' placement. Two identical banners with an even number of blocks in between each other(including zero blocks) will always face different directions, while banners with an odd number of blocks in between each other will always face the same direction.

Trivia

 * The Four Crafted Banners are the same colour of the Teams in multiplayer.
 * There are 6 Dungeon Banners, 3 Floating Island Banners, 6 Underworld Banners, 3 Pyramid Banners, 46 Normal Monster Banners and 41 Hardmode Monster Banners. Totalling 105 Non-Craftable Banners as of v1.2.4

History
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