Glazed Terracotta

Glazed terracotta is a solid block which comes in the 16 regular dye colors. Its vibrant and varied appearance makes it useful for decoration.

Smelting
The block can be obtained by smelting any stained clay. Regular, clean blocks of hardened clay give nothing.

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

Texture
Each block has a unique texture, when placed, it will resemble the shape of an item, or a random figure. Although each block's design is up to each players interpretation, there are some very obvious aspects in some colors.
 * Magenta contains an arrow
 * Cyan contains a creeper face (Design will be changed in a future snapshot )
 * Purple contains a sword and a pickaxe

Placement
When placed, Glazed Terracotta's texture will rotate depending on the direction the player is facing. If 4 Glazed Terracotta blocks of the same color are placed with the correct orientation in a 2x2 area, the textures will line up to create a singular image.

Trivia

 * Glazed terracotta is one of the few blocks where its block ID is dependent on the color, i.e . Compare this to stained hardened clay, where a numeric value for different variants must be specified (15 for black, 0 for white, and 3 for light blue, etc.)
 * According to Jeb, the terracotta blocks were designed by Johan Aronson.