How to Make Decorated Pots in Minecraft: The Ultimate Guide

As you’re playing in Minecraft, you’ll often get the opportunity to craft unique items and build a space you can call your own. There are a lot of ways for you to express your personality and add a hint of creativity to your items. A cool example is by making Decorated Pots which combines history and artistry to create meaningful decorative pieces in the game.

Having Decorated Pots not only adds aesthetics to your personal space but also provides some storage for small stacks of items you gather. You’ll easily blend your expression with practicality by having yourself some of these pots. Additionally, you can expand your multiplayer roleplaying with the pictograph decorations on these painted clay pots.

With that in mind, you might be considering learning how to make Decorated Pots in Minecraft. If the process isn’t clear for you, we’ll help you out with our guide right here. You’ll learn everything you need to know about Decorated Pots, the different types, uses, and of course, how to craft them.

What are Minecraft Decorated Pots?

Decorated pots are ornamental pots that can either have plain faces and/or designs on their sides. It’s usually made from Pottery Sherds and/or Bricks.

You can only add one stack of any Minecraft item you place within these pots. And if you break a Decorated Pot with an item or stack of items inside, these will drop from the broken block.

Since the Trails and Tales Update in June 2023, the iconic and unique Decorated Pots have been added to Minecraft. In an article officially released on Minecraft’s blog, these pots have been added as a piece of archaeology to the game, beginning as simple pot concept art. Each of the Decorated Pot’s faces can be added depending on the sherd and brick combinations you place.

Often taking inspiration from real life, the game incorporates elements from history, culture, and art in our world. Various cultures across the globe have produced pots and similar ceramics for years, with some of these even mass-produced. In comparison to the generic Decorated Pots in Minecraft, real-life pots often have more complex designs that display the craftsmanship of artisans during the olden times.

Within the game, you’ll often find naturally generated Decorated Pots within Trial Chambers.

These have loot inside each pot. You can get the loot by destroying the pot.

Interacting with Decorated Pots

In terms of the behavior of a Decorated Pot when you interact with them, you can instantly break it and the Decorated Pot drops bricks and/or Pottery Sherds it has used.

This only works, however, when you mine a Decorated Pot with your usual Minecraft tools like Axes, Pickaxes, Shovels, Hoes, and even Swords.

If you destroy a Decorated Pot besides the other tools listed and/or they have the Silk Touch enchantment, the Decorated Pot itself will drop.

So, this asks of you to be careful when you have your tools with you on your hotbar and you’re around some Decorated Pots.

What are the Different Types of Pottery Sherds for Decorated Pots?

Decorated pots have various designs. The Decorated Pot’s side textures will depend on your placement of a design and the type of Pottery Sherd you obtain. Currently, there are 23 different Pottery Sherds you can find within the game.

The locations of each of these vary such as Warm Ocean Ruins, Cold Ocean Ruins, Desert Temples, Desert Wells, and Trail Ruins. We’ll categorize them for you accordingly so it’s easier for you to find each sherd.

Warm Ocean Ruins Pottery Sherds

• Angler Pottery Sherd
• Shelter Pottery Sherd
• Snort Pottery Sherd

Cold Ocean Ruins Pottery Sherds

• Blade Pottery Sherd
• Explorer Pottery Sherd
• Mourner Pottery Sherd
• Plenty Pottery Sherd

Trail Ruins Pottery Sherds

• Burn Pottery Sherd
• Danger Pottery Sherd
• Friend Pottery Sherd
• Heart Pottery Sherd
• Heartbreak Pottery Sherd
• Howl Pottery Sherd
• Sheaf Pottery Sherd

Desert Temples Pottery Sherds

• Archer Pottery Sherd
• Miner Pottery Sherd
• Prize Pottery Sherd
• Skull Pottery Sherd

Desert Wells Pottery Sherds

• Arms Up Pottery Sherd
• Brewer Pottery Sherd

Keep in mind that these sherds aren’t found out in the open. You’ll have to find them by dusting off Suspicious Sand and Suspicious Gravel using a Brush.

Uses of Decorated Pots

Besides being a precious block that has an archaeological background, Decorated Pots have a variety of uses that you can maximize. You’ll have a better idea of what you can creatively do with these pot decorations in Minecraft.

Aesthetic Decorations

In general, Decorated Pots are ornamental items that you can add objects to store into them. They aren’t just regular pots, they have designs that make them decorated. You can add them to your living spaces such as on tables, shelves, and window areas.

Additionally, you can place your Decorated Pots outside, adding more life to your gardens, pathways, and patios. This item is also perfect if you want to store gardening blocks in Minecraft such as particular flowers, foliage, or other similar objects.

Storage Spaces

With a pot, you can use this to store one type of item, but in only one stack of that item. This is ideal for storing uncommonly used items in Minecraft such as Ender Pearls, Copper Blocks, Emeralds, and other similar things.

You can also consider storing or well-hiding items from other players in plain sight such as Totems of Undying, Music Discs, and even rare weapons you have like Tridents and Maces. You’d be able to hear immediately if your things get stolen when your Decorated Pot gets broken.

Storytelling and Roleplaying

With the different symbols that can be found across the 23 Pottery Sherds, you have a lot of ideas to play around with in terms of worldbuilding for your multiplayer server. You can use these pots to represent ancient relics and you can create fictional historical tales revolving around this.

Moreover, you can use these pots for adventure maps. You can add them to increase the player immersion when crafting fun experiences. From decorative items to location markers, there’s limitless potential with the worlds you can build from these seemingly simple Decorated Pots.

Creative Building

In line with crafting fun experiences, you can use Decorated Pots for creative Minecraft building. You can construct huge art galleries or museums and these Decorated Pots can be part of your exhibits.

Besides creating museums and galleries, consider building Greece or Rome-inspired builds such as small villages, homes, and markets. Your Decorated Pots will fit perfectly with settings like these.

How do I find Pottery Sherds for Decorated Pots?

Before learning how to make a Decorated Pot, you should first be able to find Pottery Sherds for it. You can obtain this in two ways.

One way to get Pottery Sherds is by looting for this from Suspicious Sand or Suspicious Gravel. You’ll need a Brush and locate either of the aforementioned suspicious blocks.

Notice how the Suspicious Sand or Suspicious Gravel has a different texture than the regular versions of their blocks. It helps to have good lighting when you’re looking for these texture differences.

After finding these blocks. Use your Brush and right-click the Suspicious Sand to slowly uncover the item hidden in the block. You won’t always get a Pottery Sherd but it’s your best bet to find this.

Another option you have is to simply look for Pottery Sherds as already part of Decorated Pots. You can find naturally-generating Decorated Pots and break them into Pottery Sherds within Trial Chambers.

How do I Craft a Decorated Pot?

Now that you know how to find Pottery Sherds for your Decorated Pots, we can now get to actually crafting them. We’ll be detailing for you below how to make Decorated Pots in Minecraft.

Step 1: Gather materials needed

The first thing you need to do is to gather your needed materials. Mainly, you’ll need Pottery Sherds, 4 Bricks, and a Crafting Table.

When it comes to finding Bricks, you’ll get this from smelting Clay Blocks into Bricks. These are often found in bodies of water such as Rivers and Oceans.

Mine as many Clay Blocks as you’ll need. You’ll get around two to four balls of Clay when you mine one block of it.

After collecting your Clay, you can then smelt these into Bricks. Simply add your Clay Balls into your Furnace, add a source of heat such as Coal or Wood then let your Clay smelt into Bricks.

Step 2: Place your ingredients on the Crafting Table

Once you’ve completed the materials you’ve needed, you can begin crafting your Decorated Pot.

Place your Crafting Table on the ground and open it by right-clicking. You can then place your Pottery Sherds and/or Bricks on the top-middle row, bottom-middle row, far left, and/or far-right middle column slots.

It’s also possible to use the recipe book from the Crafting Table’s interface. This will make it easier for you to automatically craft a Decorated Pot.

Step 3: Choose the designs you want on each face

Putting a Pottery Sherd on a crafting grid slot will make the design’s texture appear on one of the four faces of your Decorated Pot. The leftmost slot will be the front face of the pot.

Meanwhile, if you use only Bricks, your pot becomes a regular pot with no decorations.

You can pretty much make different patterns or have the same patterns on your Decorated Pot. This just depends on the Pottery Sherds you have.

Step 4: Craft your Decorated Pot

As you’ve finalized the design of your Decorated Pot, you can then get this in its fully-crafted form.

With that, you have your very own Decorated Pot.

If you want to change the design of your Decorated Pot after crafting it, all you have to do is break it with any tool you have and collect the sherds of your pot to redo your design.

Tips for Crafting Decorated Pots

All in all, Decorated Pots are based on the foundation of Pottery Sherds. You’ll have to prioritize collecting them if you want your pots to have designs on each face. Focus on locations such as Warm Ocean Ruins, Cold Ocean Ruins, Desert Temples, Desert Wells, and Trail Ruins. These will certainly lead you to find Pottery Sherds within Suspicious Sand.

Another tip is to play around with the designs of your Decorated Pots. Even if your sherds are limited, that shouldn’t stop you from expressing your creativity. This may even motivate you to keep exploring your world for more sherds for your Decorated Pots.

Lastly, have patience when crafting your Decorated Pots. It takes time to both look for the materials needed and to design your ideal Decorated Pot. Take your time and don’t rush the process when you’re making each pot. You’ll realize the beauty in each design if you take your time in making each Decorated Pot.