Minecraft Pottery Sherds & Flag Banners

Design a decorated pot from 4 sherds, browse all pottery sherd patterns, and build country-flag banner layer lists.

Pottery Sherds & Flag Banners

Design a decorated pot from 4 sherds, browse all pottery sherd patterns, and build country-flag banner layer lists.

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Quick guides

How to use this tool, and the questions players ask most.

Decorated pots: all 23 sherds, where each one digs up, and the give commandA pot takes four sherds, one per face, and the order you place them decides which face gets which. Where

How do you use pottery sherds in Minecraft?

Place 4 pottery sherds, bricks, or any combination of both in a diamond shape on a crafting_table to craft one decorated_pot. Each placed sherd defines the pattern displayed on that specific face of the finished pot.

Can you duplicate pottery sherds in Minecraft?

No, pottery sherds cannot be duplicated or cloned in survival mode. To get additional copies, you must find and brush more suspicious_sand or suspicious_gravel blocks, or spawn them using the command /give @p minecraft:angler_pottery_sherd 1.

How do you get the

Heart pottery sherd in Minecraft?

The Heart Pottery Sherd is obtained by using a brush on suspicious_sand blocks found inside desert pyramids. Each brushed suspicious sand block in a desert pyramid has an exact 12.5% chance to drop this specific sherd.

Can you make pottery sherds from clay in Minecraft?

No, smelting a clay_ball in a furnace produces standard brick items, which cannot be converted into pottery sherds. You can, however, use plain bricks alongside sherds in the 4-item recipe to craft blank sides on a decorated_pot.

How do you get sherds back from a

decorated pot?

Hit the decorated_pot using any tool, such as a wooden_pickaxe or sword, to shatter it into its 4 original sherds and bricks. Breaking the pot with an empty hand or Silk Touch drops the intact pot block instead.