Minecraft:Decorated Pot

Template:For Template:Infobox block A decorated pot is a storage Minecraft:block crafted from Minecraft:bricks and/or Minecraft: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 Minecraft: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 Minecraft:Mining Fatigue effect. A decorated pot drops the four Minecraft:pottery sherds or Minecraft:bricks used to craft it when mined with a Minecraft:pickaxe, Minecraft:axe, Minecraft:shovel, Minecraft:hoe or Minecraft:sword not enchanted with Minecraft: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. Template:Breaking row

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

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

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

A decorated pot drops itself if pushed by a Minecraft:piston. It also always drops itself when destroyed by an Minecraft:explosion, similar to other precious blocks such as Minecraft:beacons and Minecraft:shulker boxes.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

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.

Template:IN, if the cracked block state is set to true, a decorated pot always drops sherds or bricks regardless of the breaking method.

Crafting

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.

Natural generation

Decorated pots naturally generate in Minecraft:trial chambers, with Minecraft:loot inside. Decorated pots in the trial chambers are composed of either four bricks (Template:Frac chance) or three bricks and either one flow, guster, or scrape pottery sherd (each of those has Template:Frac 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 Minecraft:flower pots, which are required to place a flower in the decorated pot.

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

Decorated pots crafted without sherds can also serve as a temporary building block, similar to Minecraft:scaffolding and Minecraft: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 Minecraft: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 Template:Control with the pot or by using Minecraft:droppers, Minecraft:hoppers or Minecraft:crafters. The only way to retrieve stored items is by breaking the pot or by using hoppers or Minecraft:minecarts with hoppers.

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

A Minecraft: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.

Unique

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Data values

ID

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Item data

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• Template:Nbt: the item's components tag.

Data component format/container Data component format/pot decorations

Block states

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Block data

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

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• Template:Nbt Block entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/lootable
  • Template:Nbt: The single item stack stored in this container. Does not exist if the decorated pot is empty. Represents the Template:DCL component. The item is implicitly in slot 0, despite not using the Template:Nbt tag. The component is still present on the block entity, even if the tag does not exist (due to a loot table existing instead).
    • Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot
  • Template:Nbt: List of Minecraft:sherds on this decorated pot. Represents the Template:DCL component.
    • Template:Nbt: Item ID of this face. Each value defaults to Minecraft:bricks's ID, and can be either a brick or any sherd.

<section end="block data"/>

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

History

Trivia

• Decorated pots were originally planned to generate in Minecraft:ancient cities, but the idea was scrapped.
• If an item that is not a Minecraft:brick or Minecraft: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 <math>\frac{24^4-24^2}{4}+\frac{24^2-24}{2}+\frac{24}{1} = 83,100</math> 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 <math>24^4 = 331,776</math>, because items that differ by only one rotation are not considered equal.
• The developers consider the decorated pots as a sort of Template:W because recovering any items stored in it requires breaking the decorated pot.<ref>https://youtu.be/0yXEhvqwoH4?t=95</ref>

Gallery

Renders

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

Screenshots

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

Promotional images

• A pot.
  A pot.
• Pots and brush.
  Pots and brush.
• Pot designs.
  Pot designs.
• Minecraft:Alex with a collection of decorated pots.
  Minecraft:Alex with a collection of decorated pots.
• Alex stuffing a pot with Minecraft:melon slices
  Alex stuffing a pot with Minecraft:melon slices
• A shattered pot that housed ghast tears.<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/bats-pots-and-competitions</ref>
  A shattered pot that housed ghast tears.<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/bats-pots-and-competitions</ref>
• "Minecraft:Noor is standing on a balcony putting items into Decorated Pots, while Minecraft:Sunny is interacting with a Minecraft:horse below."
  "Minecraft:Noor is standing on a balcony putting items into Decorated Pots, while Minecraft:Sunny is interacting with a Minecraft:horse below."
• "Ancient decorations for a village?"<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-19-4</ref>
  "Ancient decorations for a village?"<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-19-4</ref>
• "Time to decorate the dungeon!"
  "Time to decorate the dungeon!"

Concept artwork

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

In other media

• Decorated pot valentines artwork.
  Decorated pot valentines artwork.
• Minecraft:Ari admiring a group of decorated pots.
  Minecraft:Ari admiring a group of decorated pots.
• Cellphone wallpaper showing an expanded version of the pixel art.
  Cellphone wallpaper showing an expanded version of the pixel art.
• Minecraft:Efe showing Ari a collection of pots.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CtWrJzhgIYa/</ref>
  Minecraft:Efe showing Ari a collection of pots.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CtWrJzhgIYa/</ref>
• Uniquely shaped pots featured in Minecraft:15 Year Journey.
  Uniquely shaped pots featured in Minecraft:15 Year Journey.
• Golden decorated pots in the same map.
  Golden decorated pots in the same map.
• Decorated pots as they appear in Template:AMCM.
  Decorated pots as they appear in Template:AMCM.

External links

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