How to color the shield in Minecraft

Whenever you embark on a new adventure in Minecraft you never forget to bring one with you shield, so that you can protect yourself even in the most difficult moments. The shield in question, however, seems too anonymous to you. It consists mainly of wood and does not feature any customization. So you would like to know if it is possible to embellish it with colors and textures of various kinds and thus give it a touch of style.

How do you say? Are things really like this? Then you will be happy to know that, in today’s tutorial, I will show you in detail how to color the shield in Minecraft starting from its manufacture and guiding you step by step in its customization. I assure you that this is a much simpler procedure than you imagine.

That said, if you agree, I’d go straight to action. Come on, sit down comfortably, give me a few minutes of your free time and put into practice the tips that I will provide you in the next chapters. I’m sure you will be absolutely satisfied with the result. Enjoy your reading and have fun!

Index

• Preliminary information
• How to color the shield in Minecraft
  • Create a banner
  • Coloring the shield

Preliminary information

Before explaining how to color a shield on Minecraft, it seems right to point out to you what are the procedures to manufacture this object.

Generally speaking, a shield can be found inside the chests found in the world of Minecraft or it can be purchased from merchants in the villages. If, however, you want to know how to create one without being tied to these sources of acquisition alone, know that you can make one by obtaining wooden planks, which you can obtain by working the wood obtained from cutting trees.

Next, you need to get some Iron Ingots. The crude iron is the basic material that can derive from the veins of this resource in the ground. After obtaining at least one unit, place it inside a Furnace to melt the iron into an ingot.

Having said that, after you have obtained all the materials, place on a workbench, 6 units of wooden planks and 1 unit of iron ingot, in order to obtain a Shield without any color, as in its basic form it consists mainly from wood with metal frame.

To color the shield and customize it with both solid colors and colored textures, put into practice the procedures you find in the next chapter of the guide.

How to color the shield in Minecraft

To customize a shield in Minecraft with bright colors or textures consisting of multiple colors, what you need to do is first create a banner. This is to allow you to generate the type of coloring that will then be imprinted on the shield. Here are all the details.

Create a banner

The first step is to make a banner. To perform this operation, you will need 6 units of Wool and 1 unit of Staff. As for wool, you can harvest it from sheep using Shears, which you can craft in a workbench with 2 units of Iron Ingots.

The wool you will get will generally be white in color but, in some special cases, if you were to find colored sheep, it could be the color of the animal in question. That said, the banner you go to make will take on the color of the wool you used. Therefore, since the probability of obtaining white wool is higher than with other colors, the banner you will make will almost certainly be white.

Consequently, following the procedures that I will show you in the next chapter, using a white banner you will get a white shield. Having come to this conclusion, you can understand that making a colorful banner is your priority to achieve your goal.

Therefore, to make a solid-colored banner, you will need to dye the wool. The coloring procedure of this resource is quite simple: all you have to do is place 1 unit of Wool and 1 unit of Dye inside a workbench, in order to obtain the colored Wool.

The dye in Minecraft is mainly obtained from flowers which, when placed in a furnace, release the gradient they are made of. As for the black and white, however, you can get them, respectively, from the Bones and the Ink Pouches of the octopuses.

Do you want to apply colored textures to a banner? In that case, it is essential to manufacture a Frame. This tool is obtained by combining, in a workbench, 2 units of wooden planks and 2 units of string. Using a hoop, you can easily add textures to a banner, choosing from the styles listed.

When you interact on a frame, you are shown three slots: the first requires the insertion of the banner, the second the dye, and the third (optional) of the diagram. Using only the first two slots (the banner and the dye ), from the appropriate screen in the center you can choose the texture that the banner must have, in the color you indicate.

By adding a pattern in the third slot, however, you can generate specific designs on the banner, such as the face of a Creeper or a skull, just to give you some examples. These blueprints can be obtained by placing the specific object in a workbench together with 1 unit of paper.

If you want to know more about how to make a banner and how to color it, I can recommend reading my guide on how to make banners in Minecraft.

Coloring the shield

Once you’ve crafted a colorful banner, it’s time to see how to go about coloring a shield. After obtaining this object through the advice I gave you in a previous chapter of the guide, you need to place it in a workbench.

Once this is done, you just have to insert, in one of the slots of the workbench, the colored banner that you previously obtained through my advice, in order to generate in the right slot the shield with the color or texture of which it was made. the banner. It was easy, am I right?

I remind you that the procedures I have described to you in this guide of mine refer to any version of Minecraft. Therefore, whether you want to know how to color the shield in Minecraft on PC or how to color the shield in Minecraft on PS4, know that you will always have to follow the same steps.