Glazed Terracotta

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 clay. Smelting regular, clean blocks of hardened clay does not work.

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

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.



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.

Texture


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.

Trivia

 * According to Jeb, the terracotta blocks were inspired by a Moroccan styled bathroom floor at a hotel in California that he saw, in Minecraft these blocks were designed by Johan Aronson.

Color-associated patterns

 * Some 6×6 patterns

Upcoming
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Pistons can't push terracotta that is not inline with the piston using slime blocks. Sticky pistons can only push but not pull in terracotta blocks. Slime blocks inline with the piston can't move terracotta blocks between the slime block and piston when retracting.
 * Terracotta will be non-sticky

The exact behavior is more accurately explained below using screenshots: