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We like Banners right? They look great and literally have over a quadrillion possibilities for decoration. So... how about over 750 times as many options? My idea is an Item Print, which let you put a print of an item onto the banner in any of 3 locations, the top, center, or bottom of the banner. Anything that has an icon in your inventory can be used, meaning you can use blocks or items, including items only obtainable with /give.



If you combine any item with an Item Frame you will make an Item Print of that item. Keep in mind that you KEEP the items you are printing, but lose the Item Frame, similar to how you keep a Bucket when making a cake. No wasting a Diamond simply on a neat Banner.

Because you must use a Loom to make a Banner, this means the Loom GUI needs to be adjusted to accommodate these new items:

As you can see, the input slots for the Loom now has 3 item slots instead of 1. It functions pretty much the same as it used to, you put in your Banner, your Dye, and a Banner Pattern and you can make colored layers. Where it gets different is if you put in an Item Print. When you put an Item Print into the Top, Middle, or Bottom item slots, an image of that item will appear on the Banner. You can do up to 3 items per Banner layer, however most items will overlap if you try to do all three at once.

Because the box for picking Patterns isn't used when placing Item Prints, you can instead use it to modify each print. You will get 3 rows, one for each Item Print slot (if a Print is not in a slot, the associated row is greyed out). You have four options to modify the Item Print to make them a little more custom:

• Flip Horizontal
• Flip Vertical
• Rotate 90 Degrees Clockwise
• Rotate 90 Degrees Counterclockwise

Here are some examples of the possibilities (using items to indicate what the Item Print would be):


Now that is a swanky banner!


Place this above your weapons chest to find your gear easily.


If using a block, it uses the same block icon you see in the inventory.

That is pretty much all there is to the idea, but think of the possibilities! 3 slots to place Item Prints, at least 550 blocks and items that can be used and 64 additional ways of rotating and flipping each Item Print, means that instead of having 809 quadrillion combinations (809,573,616,779,945,488), we have 617 QUINTILLION (617,826,240,051,948,503,808). That is a lot of customization, and it doesn't even include the best part!

If you get a mob or player head with /give, putting that on a banner will give you their face texture on the Banner. Make Banners with Zombie heads on them, or find a player with a Herobrine skin, spawn their head, and make a Herobrine banner.

So, what do you think?

Quote from StormCrow1770»

Would be cool! Could you put them on top of each other and rotate them?

They behave just like other banner layers so all you need to do is add one layer of prints followed by another layer of prints.

As for rotation, I didn't really think about that, considering Banners can't fly horizontally afaik. I did think about making an alternate recipe with the Banner and ABC on opposite sides that would flip the Item Print so you could do things like crossed swords or things like that.

Quote from StormCrow1770»

Could you also place them on top and below to flip them the other way?

Do you mean rotate them 90 degrees so the Herobrine head (for example), would be on its side? I suppose there isn't any reason it shouldn't work, although I should totally add some kind of way to place banners horizontally as a flag.

Quote from TotallyNorthAmerican»

Support

But I do have a few suggestions, instead of being the actual item on the banner how about more like the outline like the "Oxeye Daisy" And how it uses more of the Imprint of the flower. Other than that over all support!

I would be okay with that, or certain items doing special patterns like the Wither Skull in Vanilla, but that should just be the item, banner, and a dye color like the current recipes. But This is more directed towards having exact replicas of items or blocks as you see their icon, on banners. So I'm fully for the idea, but it should be in addition to this, not instead of this.

Quote from StormCrow1770»

Maybe for items you only see their outline, and for blocks you see the whole thing?

For my idea, I want the whole thing to be shown. If someone wants to just suggest more designs when using just an item I'll give it my full support though.