Pottery Sherd

Pottery sherds are a set of twenty items used to craft decorated pots with ornamental designs. They can only be found by brushing suspicious sand or suspicious gravel blocks.

Breaking
When a decorated pot is broken without Silk Touch, it drops all the pottery sherds used to craft it.

Brushing
Pottery sherds have a chance to be obtained by suspicious sand or suspicious gravel found in trail ruins, ocean ruins, desert pyramids and desert wells with a brush. The block then gets converted into regular sand or gravel, dropping one of the twenty pottery sherd variants:

ID




Trivia

 * Many pottery sherds are based on another in-game mob or item:
 * The angler pottery sherd depicts a fishing rod.
 * The archer pottery sherd depicts a bow and arrow.
 * The blade pottery sherd depicts a sword.
 * The brewer pottery sherd depicts a potion.
 * The burn pottery sherd depicts fire.
 * The danger pottery sherd depicts a creeper.
 * The explorer pottery sherd depicts a map.
 * The friend pottery sherd depicts the unibrow and nose of a villager or iron golem.
 * The howl pottery sherd depicts a wolf.
 * The miner pottery sherd depicts a pickaxe.
 * The mourner pottery sherd depicts an early design for the warden.
 * The plenty pottery sherd depicts a chest.
 * The sheaf pottery sherd depicts wheat.
 * The skull pottery sherd depicts a skeleton.
 * The snort pottery sherd depicts a sniffer.
 * The prize pottery sherd depicts a diamond cut diamond.
 * The arms up pottery sherd depicts a character with their arms up.
 * The heart and heartbreak pottery sherds depict a heart and broken heart respectively.
 * The shelter pottery sherd depicts a tree.
 * In the real world, although the word "shard" is more commonly used, the word "sherd" or "potsherd" is preferred over "shard" in archaeological usage.