Decorated Pot

For other uses, see Pot.

Decorated Pot

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Renewable	Only bricks: Yes With pottery sherd(s): No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	50 TERRACOTTA_RED
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A decorated pot is a storage block crafted from bricks and/or pottery sherds, with the items used individually affecting the appearance of its four side faces. It can store a single inventory slot's worth of items, which cannot be seen or retrieved by hand without breaking the pot.

Obtaining

Breaking

Decorated pots can be broken with any tool and are mined instantly, even when under the Mining Fatigue effect. A decorated pot drops the four pottery sherds or bricks used to craft it, when mined with a pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe, sword, mace, or trident not enchanted with Silk Touch. It drops itself when mined with anything else, including tools listed above enchanted with Silk Touch. In either case, the tool does not lose durability.

Block	Decorated Pot
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

A decorated pot breaks when hit by one of the following projectiles, causing it to shatter into sherds or bricks:

• Arrow
• Tipped Arrow
• Spectral Arrow
• Trident
• Firework Rocket
• Snowball
• Egg
• Fireball
• Small Fireball
• Dragon Fireball
• Wither Skull
• Wind Charge

A decorated pot also shatters if a player collides with it while flying using elytra boosted by a firework rocket.

A decorated pot drops itself if pushed by a piston. It also always drops itself when destroyed by an explosion, similar to other precious blocks such as beacons and shulker boxes.^[1]

Stored items are dropped when the decorated pot is broken, regardless of whether the pot shatters into sherds or drops itself. Breaking a pot is the only way to access the stored items without using a hopper.

In Java Edition, if the cracked block state is set to true, a decorated pot always drops sherds or bricks regardless of the breaking method.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Decorated Pot	Any Pottery Sherd or Brick		It is possible to use any combination of bricks and pottery sherds. The faces preserve the item data.​[more information needed for Bedrock Edition]
Decorated Pot Simple	Brick		Due to overlapping recipes, accessible only via the recipe book. Brick data is not preserved.

The decorated pot's side textures correspond to the item used in the crafting. If a pottery sherd is used, that side bears the texture of that pottery sherd, if a brick is used, that side bears the default texture. The face items retain their data, such as custom names and other components. Simple decorated pot has default brick on all sides.

Natural generation

Decorated pots naturally generate in trial chambers, with loot inside. Decorated pots in the trial chambers are composed of either four bricks (¹⁰⁄₁₃ chance) or three bricks and either one flow, guster, or scrape pottery sherd (each of those has ¹⁄₁₃ chance).

Usage

Decorated pots can be used for decoration. Due to the top part of the decorated pot having no collision, other blocks can be placed on top of them, including other decorated pots and regular flower pots, which are required to place a flower in the decorated pot.

Pressing the use control on a decorated pot causes it to play a wobble animation, triggering a vibration frequency of 11.

Decorated pots crafted without sherds can also serve as a temporary building block, similar to scaffolding and slime blocks, because they are easy to craft, stack to 64, and can be broken instantly by hand.

Storage

A decorated pot can store up to a stack of a single type of item. However, it fills instantly if an unstackable item like a sword, a filled bucket, or potions are stored in it. Unlike other containers, decorated pots have no GUI; items are inserted by interacting with the pot or by using droppers, hoppers or crafters. The only way to retrieve stored items is by breaking the pot or by using hoppers or minecarts with hoppers.

Decorated pots crafted without sherds can also serve as compact storage for bricks, as they are stackable; each can be crafted from four bricks and can be broken down into four bricks.

A redstone comparator can be used to measure the number of stored items.

Sounds

Generic

Decorated pots switch to the shattered sounds immediately before breaking when destroyed by a non-Silk Touch tool.

Popped

Java Edition:

decorated_pot sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.decorated_pot.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.decorated_pot.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	Not normally encounterable[sound 1]	block.decorated_pot.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.decorated_pot.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.decorated_pot.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

decorated_pot sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	1.0
	​Block broken	Blocks	When the block is placed	break.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken​	step.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	step.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	step.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.decorated_pot	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	1.0	1.0

Shattered

Java Edition:

decorated_pot_cracked sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Decorated Pot shatters	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.decorated_pot.shatter	subtitles.block.decorated_pot.shatter​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.decorated_pot.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	Not normally encounterable[sound 1]	block.decorated_pot.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.decorated_pot.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.decorated_pot.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Decorated Pot	decorated_pot	Block & Item	block.minecraft.decorated_pot

Name	Identifier
Block entity	decorated_pot

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Decorated Pot	decorated_pot	806	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -551)	tile.decorated_pot.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	DecoratedPot

Item data

Java Edition:

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

A decorated pot has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Careful restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds	—	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Careful Restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds	—

History

Announcement

October 3, 2020							A clay pot and a painted clay pot were demonstrated at Minecraft Live 2020 as part of a gameplay mechanic that would include archeology.
February 10, 2023							Sofia Dankis posts an article about upcoming archaeology features that announces decorated pots.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added decorated pots.
			pre1				The recipe for the decorated pot made of all bricks can now be found in the recipe book.
			pre2				Changed the model and texture of decorated pots.
1.20			23w12a				Decorated pots are now out of the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
							Added 16 new side textures corresponding to the 16 new pottery sherds.
							cracked block state has been added, serving as an internal block state that determines the sound upon breaking of this block.
			23w14a				Decorated pots can now be waterlogged "normally".
			23w16a				NBT tag for pot decorations renamed from shards to sherds (to match items).
			23w17a				The materials used when crafting a decorated pot are now listed on its tooltip.
							The player now gets the advancement "Careful Restoration" when they craft a decorated pot using 4 pottery sherds.
1.20.2			23w31a				Decorated pots now have Creative mode tooltips that show what pottery sherds they are made of.[2]
1.20.3			23w40a				When block state cracked is set to true, decorated pots now always shatter when broken.
			23w41a				Decorated pots can now store up to a single stack of items.
							Hoppers, hopper minecarts and droppers can now insert and/or extract items from decorated pots.
							Comparators can now read the number of items in decorated pots.
							Players can interact with pots to insert items into them.
							Player interactions with decorated pots cause the decorated pot to wobble and trigger the vibration frequency of 11.
							Decorated pots can be smashed by projectiles, causing them to shatter and drop their content.
							Decorated pots now stack up to 64.
			23w42a				Decorated pots now appear in the Redstone tab of the Creative inventory.
			23w44a				Decorated pots can now utilize loot tables from the LootTable tag key.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Decorated pots now generate naturally within trial chambers.
1.20.3			23w46a				Changed the shatter, break, and step sounds. The breaking sounds was replaced with , and the stepping sounds were replaced with .
1.21.11			25w46a				Decorated pots now have a different particle texture upon breaking.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.70 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.70.23				Added decorated pots.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.20				Changed the model of decorated pots.
							Decorated pots can no longer be stacked.
							The recipe for a decorated pot made only of bricks can now be found in the recipe book.
			Preview 1.19.80.22				Added 16 new side textures corresponding to the 16 new pottery sherds.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.21				Decorated pots are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
			Preview 1.20.0.23				Players now get the achievement "Careful restoration" when crafting a decorated pot out of four pottery sherds.
1.20.50			Preview 1.20.50.20				Decorated pots can now store up to a single stack of items.
							Hoppers, hopper minecarts and droppers can now insert and/or extract items from decorated pots.
							Comparators can now read the number of items in decorated pots.
							Players can interact with pots to insert items into them.
							Player interactions with decorated pots cause the decorated pot to wobble and trigger a vibration frequency of 11.
							Decorated pots can be smashed by projectiles, causing them to shatter and drop their contents.
							Decorated pots now stack up to 64.
			Preview 1.20.50.22				Changed the shatter, break, and step sounds. The breaking sounds was replaced with , and the stepping sounds were replaced with .
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Decorated pots generate naturally within trial chambers.

Issues

Issues relating to "Decorated Pot" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Decorated pots were originally planned to generate in ancient cities, but the idea was scrapped.
• If an item that is not a brick or pottery sherd is applied to the side of a decorated pot using commands, it renders the same pattern as a brick.
• There are a total of unique decorated pots that can be created, because each of the 4 slots used to craft a pot can be any one of the 23 pottery sherds or a brick, and each pot has 4 symmetric rotations, making each pot equivalent to 4, 2, or 1 pots. Although the total number of items is , because items that differ by only one rotation are not considered equal.
• The developers consider the decorated pots as a sort of piggy bank because recovering any items stored in it requires breaking the decorated pot.^[3]

Gallery

Renders

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  Brick decorated pot
• 
  Angler decorated pot
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  Archer decorated pot
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  Arms up decorated pot
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  Blade decorated pot
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  Brewer decorated pot
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  Burn decorated pot
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  Danger decorated pot
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  Explorer decorated pot
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  Flow decorated pot
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  Friend decorated pot
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  Guster decorated pot
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  Heart decorated pot
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  Heartbreak decorated pot
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  Howl decorated pot
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  Miner decorated pot
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  Mourner decorated pot
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  Plenty decorated pot
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  Prize decorated pot
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  Scrape decorated pot
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  Sheaf decorated pot
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  Shelter decorated pot
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  Skull decorated pot
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  Snort decorated pot

Screenshots

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  An example of a decorated pot tooltip
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  A decorated pot made with the skull and heartbreak pottery sherds
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  Another use of decorated pots
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  Two decorated pots holding soul lanterns at the entrance to a building
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  A fountain created with waterlogged decorated pot
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  A decorated pot in trial chambers

Promotional images

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  A pot
• 
  Pots and brush
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  Pot designs
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  Alex with a collection of decorated pots
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  Alex stuffing a pot with melon slices
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  A shattered pot that housed ghast tears^[4]
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  "Noor is standing on a balcony putting items into Decorated Pots, while Sunny is interacting with a horse below."
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  "Ancient decorations for a village?"^[5]
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  "Time to decorate the dungeon!"

Concept artwork

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  Pots, vases, and stone chests concept art for the ancient cities
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  Ditto
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  Ancient city gameplay concept art
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  More ancient city gameplay of player breaking pots concept art
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  Ancient city wall with pot concept art

In other media

• 
  Decorated pot valentines artwork
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  Ari admiring a group of decorated pots
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  Cellphone wallpaper showing an expanded version of the pixel art
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  Efe showing Ari a collection of pots^[6]
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  Uniquely shaped pots featured in 15 Year Journey
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  Golden decorated pots in the same map
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  Decorated pots as they appear in A Minecraft Movie

References

External links

• Block of the Month: Decorated Pot- Minecraft.net on February 19, 2024