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 that comes in the 16 regular dye colors, obtained by smelting colored terracotta.

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

Natural generation
Purple glazed terracotta generates in some cold underwater ruins.

Yellow glazed terracotta generates in mason houses in savanna villages.

Orange glazed terracotta generates in savanna village armorer houses.

White glazed terracotta generates in some desert village buildings.

Lime glazed terracotta generates in one of the desert village temples.

Smelting
Glazed Terracotta can be obtained by smelting any stained terracotta. Unstained terracotta cannot be smelted.

Trading
Expert-level stone mason villagers sell 1 glazed terracotta for an emerald as part of their trades.

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 terracotta.

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

Placement
When placed, glazed terracotta's texture rotates relative to the direction the player is facing while placing the block. If several glazed terracotta blocks of the same color are placed in the "correct" orientation in a 2×2 or greater area, the textures align to create a singular image, as demonstrated in the image to the right.

The magenta glazed terracotta pattern includes an arrow (⬆) design that 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).

Texture


Glazed Terracotta blocks are designed to form a larger, cohesive pattern when placed in the correct 2×2 configuration. Most textures have reflection symmetry along a diagonal line that goes from corner to corner, though the colors of individual pixels can differ slightly.

Although the design of each individual glazed terracotta block is up for interpretation, there are some intentional details in certain blocks:
 * Magenta blocks contain directional arrows.
 * Cyan blocks contain a creeper's face.
 * Purple blocks contain the hilt of a sword and the head of a pickaxe.
 * Lime blocks contain a crossbow.

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Block data
$$, 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.
 * Glazed terracotta blocks are the only blocks that can be instantly mined only with a golden tool.