/give @p minecraft:decorated_pot[pot_decorations=["minecraft:brick","minecraft:brick","minecraft:brick","minecraft:brick"]]Decorated Pots are decorative blocks that can display pottery sherds on each of their four sides. They were added in Minecraft 1.20 (Trails & Tales).
Pottery sherds are found in suspicious sand and gravel in various structures. Each sherd depicts a unique pattern related to Minecraft's archaeology system.
Key Features:
Available Sherds (23):
Design custom decorated pots by assigning any of the 23 pottery sherds to each of the 4 sides. This generator outputs a ready-to-paste /give command for Java Edition 1.21+, with an optional item stored inside the pot.
Decorated pots arrived in Minecraft 1.20 (Trails and Tales) alongside the archaeology system. Each pot has 4 independent faces, and each face can display a different pottery sherd pattern or stay blank. With 23 sherds plus the blank brick option, that is 24 choices per face, which works out to over 330,000 unique pot designs.
Collecting all 23 sherds in survival takes real effort since they only come from brushing suspicious blocks. This decorated pot generator lets you skip the archaeology grind and go straight to designing your pot, then gives you the command to spawn it in.
1. Pick a pottery sherd for each of the 4 faces (front, back, left, right), or leave a face blank with the brick option.
2. Optionally add an item inside the pot. Decorated pots store a single item stack.
3. Set the target and how many pots to give.
4. Copy the command and paste it into your game or a command block. It updates in real time.
Each pottery sherd is found through archaeology at specific structure types. Here is the complete list:
| Sherd | Source Structure |
|---|---|
| Angler | Warm Ocean Ruins |
| Archer | Desert Temple |
| Arms Up | Desert Temple |
| Blade | Cold Ocean Ruins |
| Brewer | Desert Temple, Desert Well |
| Burn | Trail Ruins |
| Danger | Trail Ruins |
| Explorer | Trail Ruins |
| Flow | Trial Chambers |
| Friend | Trail Ruins |
| Guster | Trial Chambers |
| Heart | Trail Ruins |
| Heartbreak | Trail Ruins |
| Howl | Trail Ruins |
| Miner | Trail Ruins |
| Mourner | Trail Ruins |
| Plenty | Trail Ruins |
| Prize | Desert Temple |
| Scrape | Cold Ocean Ruins |
| Sheaf | Trail Ruins |
| Shelter | Trail Ruins |
| Skull | Desert Temple |
| Snort | Warm Ocean Ruins |
Trail Ruins are the most productive structure for sherd farming, with 11 different sherd types available. Desert Temples offer 4 unique sherds, while Ocean Ruins and Trial Chambers hold the rest.
Decorative storage: Since pots hold one item stack, they work as compact, themed storage for small quantities. Place a pot with a Sheaf sherd near your wheat farm to store seeds.
Storytelling in adventure maps: Use different sherd combinations to tell visual stories. Danger, Skull, and Blade sherds work well for dungeon areas, while Heart and Friend suit friendly villages.
Redstone: Pots interact with hoppers and comparators. A comparator reads a signal strength based on the item count inside, which is useful for compact redstone contraptions.
Crafting reference: In survival you craft decorated pots at a crafting table using 4 pottery sherds, or bricks for blank faces. The position of each sherd in the 3x3 grid determines which face it appears on.
There are 23 pottery sherds in Java Edition. Each has a unique pictographic design: Angler, Archer, Arms Up, Blade, Brewer, Burn, Danger, Explorer, Flow, Friend, Guster, Heart, Heartbreak, Howl, Miner, Mourner, Plenty, Prize, Scrape, Sheaf, Shelter, Skull, and Snort.
Pottery sherds come only from archaeology. Use a brush on suspicious sand or suspicious gravel in Trail Ruins, Desert Temples, Desert Wells, Ocean Ruins, and Trial Chambers. Each structure has its own pool of sherd types.
Yes. As of 1.20.3, a decorated pot can hold a single item stack. Players insert items by interacting with the pot, hoppers and droppers can move items in and out, and the pot drops its contents when broken.
In survival you craft a decorated pot at a crafting table using 4 pottery sherds, or bricks for blank faces. Each sherd's position in the 3x3 grid maps to a face. This generator builds the /give command directly, so you can set all four faces without farming sherds.
Decorated pots arrived in Minecraft 1.20 (Trails and Tales) alongside the archaeology system. The single item-storage slot was added in 1.20.3. The pot_decorations and container components used by this generator work in Java Edition 1.21 and later.
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