Flower Pot

A flower pot is a decorative block that allows saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, ferns and dead bushes to be placed in it. Plants that cannot be placed in a pot are: normal tall grass, wheat, vines, lily pads, pumpkins, melons, nether wart, sugar canes, and carrots. When broken it drops both itself and the plant it contained. When the block beneath the pot is broken, both the pot and the plant it contains drop as items.

Flower pots can be placed on upside-down slabs and upside-down stairs. They can not be placed on normal slabs and stairs. When aiming at the side of a block behind or above a crafting table the pot will not be placed on said block but on top of the crafting table instead. The same method works for furnaces and dispensers, but not for fences, cauldrons or chests. The flower pot is 3/8 block high and can be stepped on. It is not possible to walk from the top of a flower pot onto a full sized block without jumping.

Trivia

 * The flower pot is based off a suggestion on Reddit, like the Ender chest and item frame.
 * Despite having soil in the display, crafting it does not require dirt.
 * When placed in a flower pot, cactus will not harm the player.
 * Flower pots break falling sand and gravel blocks, much like torches.
 * Destroying a plant pot in multiplayer crashes the server.