Glazed Terracotta

"Once you’ve stained your terracotta to a hue of your choosing, stick it in a furnace with a suitable fuel, and smelt it into its final form: beautiful, colorful blocks, textured with ornate patterns, perfect for adorning smaller sized builds."

- Ash Davis

Glazed terracotta is a vibrant solid block which comes in the 16 regular dye colors.

Smelting
The block can be obtained by smelting any stained terracotta. Smelting regular, clean blocks of terracotta does not work.

Breaking
Glazed terracotta requires a pickaxe to be mined. When mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.

Natural generation
Purple glazed terracotta generates in underwater ruins.

Yellow glazed terracotta generates in mason houses in savanna villages.

Orange glazed terracotta generates in some savanna village houses.

White glazed terracotta generates in some desert village houses.

Lime glazed terracotta generates in some desert village houses.

Usage
Due to its strikingly colorful appearance, glazed terracotta is primarily used for decoration. As a building material, its hardness is slightly less than stone, and its blast resistance is even lower than wood.

While glazed terracotta can be pushed by sticky pistons or slime blocks, it is unique among blocks in that it cannot be pulled. It also does not stick to slime blocks.

Placement
When placed, glazed terracotta's texture will rotate depending on the direction the player is facing. If several glazed terracotta blocks of the same color are placed in the "correct" orientation in a 2x2 or greater area, the textures will line up to create a singular image, as demonstrated in the image to the right.

The magenta glazed terracotta pattern includes an arrow (⬆) design which can be used to point to things or direct players. A guide is shown below, in order to correctly place the arrow direction (based on testing). "Facing" means where the player is relative to the front of the block being placed, such as 'below' means the player is below or roughly below the block.

Texture


Most textures have reflection symmetry along a diagonal line that goes from corner to corner, although the colors of individual pixels can differ slightly. Even the asymmetric textures mostly have their edges designed so that they can form decorative patterns.

Although the design of each individual glazed terracotta block is left to the player's interpretation, there are some obvious aspects in certain blocks:
 * Magenta blocks contain an arrow.
 * Cyan blocks contain a creeper face.
 * Purple blocks contain the hilt of a sword and the head of a pickaxe.

Data values
Glazed terracotta is defined by its ID and block data. Glazed terracotta also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, glazed terracotta uses its block data to specify its orientation (which is opposite to the direction the player was facing when the block was placed).

Trivia

 * According to Jeb, the inspiration for glazed terracotta blocks came from a Moroccan-styled bathroom floor at a hotel in California.
 * Glazed terracotta blocks were designed by Johan Aronson.