Glazed Terracotta

Glazed Terracotta

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	1.4
Hardness	1.4
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Glazed terracotta is a vibrant solid block that comes in the 16 regular dye colors, obtained by smelting colored terracotta.

Obtaining

Breaking

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

Block	Glazed Terracotta
Hardness	1.4
Tool
Breaking time
Default	7
Wooden	1.05
Stone	0.55
Iron	0.35
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

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.

Light blue glazed terracotta generates in toolsmith houses in desert villages.

Smelting

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

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Matching Dyed Terracotta + Any fuel	0.1

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.

Glazed terracotta does not stick to slime blocks, and honey blocks, but unlike immovable blocks, it can be pushed by pistons and sticky pistons.

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).

Facing	Arrow direction
Front	Pointing right ►
Left	Pointing down ▼
Right	Pointing up ▲
Above	Pointing down ▼

Translucent image of magenta terracotta.

Several different 2×2 tile patterns.

Texture

Creeper face on cyan glazed terracotta.

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.

Note Blocks

All types of glazed terracotta can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0
	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.stone	1.0	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
White Glazed Terracotta	white_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.white_glazed_terracotta
Orange Glazed Terracotta	orange_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.orange_glazed_terracotta
Magenta Glazed Terracotta	magenta_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.magenta_glazed_terracotta
Light Blue Glazed Terracotta	light_blue_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.light_blue_glazed_terracotta
Yellow Glazed Terracotta	yellow_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.yellow_glazed_terracotta
Lime Glazed Terracotta	lime_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.lime_glazed_terracotta
Pink Glazed Terracotta	pink_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.pink_glazed_terracotta
Gray Glazed Terracotta	gray_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.gray_glazed_terracotta
Light Gray Glazed Terracotta	light_gray_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.light_gray_glazed_terracotta
Cyan Glazed Terracotta	cyan_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.cyan_glazed_terracotta
Purple Glazed Terracotta	purple_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.purple_glazed_terracotta
Blue Glazed Terracotta	blue_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.blue_glazed_terracotta
Brown Glazed Terracotta	brown_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.brown_glazed_terracotta
Green Glazed Terracotta	green_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.green_glazed_terracotta
Red Glazed Terracotta	red_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.red_glazed_terracotta
Black Glazed Terracotta	black_glazed_terracotta	Block & Item	block.minecraft.black_glazed_terracotta

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
White Glazed Terracotta	white_glazed_terracotta	220	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaWhite.name[verify]
Orange Glazed Terracotta	orange_glazed_terracotta	221	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaOrange.name[verify]
Magenta Glazed Terracotta	magenta_glazed_terracotta	222	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaMagenta.name[verify]
Light Blue Glazed Terracotta	light_blue_glazed_terracotta	223	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaLightBlue.name[verify]
Yellow Glazed Terracotta	yellow_glazed_terracotta	224	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaYellow.name[verify]
Lime Glazed Terracotta	lime_glazed_terracotta	225	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaLime.name[verify]
Pink Glazed Terracotta	pink_glazed_terracotta	226	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaPink.name[verify]
Gray Glazed Terracotta	gray_glazed_terracotta	227	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaGray.name[verify]
Light Gray Glazed Terracotta	silver_glazed_terracotta	228	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaSilver.name[verify]
Cyan Glazed Terracotta	cyan_glazed_terracotta	229	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaCyan.name[verify]
Purple Glazed Terracotta	purple_glazed_terracotta	219	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaPurple.name[verify]
Blue Glazed Terracotta	blue_glazed_terracotta	231	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaBlue.name[verify]
Brown Glazed Terracotta	brown_glazed_terracotta	232	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaBrown.name[verify]
Green Glazed Terracotta	green_glazed_terracotta	233	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaGreen.name[verify]
Red Glazed Terracotta	red_glazed_terracotta	234	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaRed.name[verify]
Black Glazed Terracotta	black_glazed_terracotta	235	Block & Item	tile.glazedTerracottaBlack.name[verify]

Metadata

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, 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).

Bits	Values
0x1 0x2	A 2-bit field storing a value from 0 to 3: 0: south (the player was facing north when this block was placed) 1: west 2: north 3: east
0x4 0x8	Unused.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the block.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing_direction	2	0 1 2 3 4 5	The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the block.

History

Java Edition
1.12		17w06a			Added glazed terracotta.
		17w13a			The white, orange, magenta and cyan block textures have now been changed. This change is to remove patterns that could contain offensive imagery. However, it is still possible to create some. This was reported as a bug, with the resolution being "won't fix."
1.13		17w47a			The ID for light gray glazed terracotta has now been changed from silver_glazed_terracotta to light_gray_glazed_terracotta.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 235 through 250.
		18w09a			Purple glazed terracotta now generates in some underwater ruins.
1.14		18w49a			Orange and yellow glazed terracotta now generates in savanna villages.
		18w50a			White, lime and light blue glazed terracotta now generate in desert villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added glazed terracotta.
		alpha 1.1.0.3			The textures of white, orange, magenta and cyan glazed terracotta have now been updated.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Purple glazed terracotta now generates naturally in underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			White, lime and light blue glazed terracotta now generate in the new desert villages.
					Orange and yellow terracotta now generate in the new savanna villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Glazed terracotta can now be bought from stone mason villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added glazed terracotta.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added glazed terracotta.

Issues

Issues relating to "Glazed Terracotta" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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.

Gallery

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  The first instance of glazed terracotta appears in this banner for snapshot 17w06a. (Magenta, top center of structure)

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  A complex terracotta pattern that uses multiple colors to achieve a rich carpet effect.

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  Several more complex multi-color terracotta patterns.

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  A terracotta pattern using 14 kinds of terracotta block.

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  Purple glazed terracotta generating in underwater ruins.

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  All of the radial glazed terracotta patterns, shown in a continuous arrangement next to their unglazed counterparts.