Pottery Sherd

Pottery Sherd
Rarity	Common
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)

Pottery sherds are a set of twenty items used to craft decorated pots with ornamental designs. They can be obtained only by brushing suspicious blocks, with the variants of sherd obtainable being dependent on the structure.

Obtaining

Breaking

When a decorated pot is broken with a pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe or sword that is not enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops all of the pottery sherds and bricks used to craft it.

Suspicious block loot

Pottery sherds can be found as suspicious block loot in trail ruins, ocean ruins, desert pyramids and desert wells, and can be extracted from these blocks using a brush.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Angler Pottery Sherd	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%
Archer Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Arms Up Pottery Sherd	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	25%
Blade Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Brewer Pottery Sherd	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	25%
Burn Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Danger Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Explorer Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Friend Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Heart Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Howl Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Miner Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Mourner Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Plenty Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Prize Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Shelter Pottery Sherd	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%
Skull Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Snort Pottery Sherd	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%
Bedrock Edition
Angler Pottery Sherd	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%
Archer Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Arms Up Pottery Sherd	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	25%
Blade Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Brewer Pottery Sherd	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	25%
Burn Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Danger Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Explorer Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Friend Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Heart Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Howl Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Miner Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Mourner Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Plenty Pottery Sherd	Cold Ocean ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7%
Prize Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3%
Shelter Pottery Sherd	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%
Skull Pottery Sherd	Desert temple	Suspicious sand	1	12.5%
Snort Pottery Sherd	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Pottery Sherd or Brick

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Angler Pottery Sherd	angler_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.angler_pottery_sherd
Archer Pottery Sherd	archer_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.archer_pottery_sherd
Arms Up Pottery Sherd	arms_up_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.arms_up_pottery_sherd
Blade Pottery Sherd	blade_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.blade_pottery_sherd
Brewer Pottery Sherd	brewer_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.brewer_pottery_sherd
Burn Pottery Sherd	burn_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.burn_pottery_sherd
Danger Pottery Sherd	danger_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.danger_pottery_sherd
Explorer Pottery Sherd	explorer_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.explorer_pottery_sherd
Friend Pottery Sherd	friend_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.friend_pottery_sherd
Heart Pottery Sherd	heart_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.heart_pottery_sherd
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	heartbreak_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.heartbreak_pottery_sherd
Howl Pottery Sherd	howl_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.howl_pottery_sherd
Miner Pottery Sherd	miner_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.miner_pottery_sherd
Mourner Pottery Sherd	mourner_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.mourner_pottery_sherd
Plenty Pottery Sherd	plenty_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.plenty_pottery_sherd
Prize Pottery Sherd	prize_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.prize_pottery_sherd
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	sheaf_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.sheaf_pottery_sherd
Shelter Pottery Sherd	shelter_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.shelter_pottery_sherd
Skull Pottery Sherd	skull_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.skull_pottery_sherd
Snort Pottery Sherd	snort_pottery_sherd	Item	item.minecraft.snort_pottery_sherd

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Angler Pottery Sherd	angler_pottery_sherd	664	Item	item.angler_pottery_sherd.name
Archer Pottery Sherd	archer_pottery_sherd	665	Item	item.archer_pottery_sherd.name
Arms Up Pottery Sherd	arms_up_pottery_sherd	666	Item	item.arms_up_pottery_sherd.name
Blade Pottery Sherd	blade_pottery_sherd	667	Item	item.blade_pottery_sherd.name
Brewer Pottery Sherd	brewer_pottery_sherd	668	Item	item.brewer_pottery_sherd.name
Burn Pottery Sherd	burn_pottery_sherd	669	Item	item.burn_pottery_sherd.name
Danger Pottery Sherd	danger_pottery_sherd	670	Item	item.danger_pottery_sherd.name
Explorer Pottery Sherd	explorer_pottery_sherd	671	Item	item.explorer_pottery_sherd.name
Friend Pottery Sherd	friend_pottery_sherd	672	Item	item.friend_pottery_sherd.name
Heart Pottery Sherd	heart_pottery_sherd	673	Item	item.heart_pottery_sherd.name
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	heartbreak_pottery_sherd	674	Item	item.heartbreak_pottery_sherd.name
Howl Pottery Sherd	howl_pottery_sherd	675	Item	item.howl_pottery_sherd.name
Miner Pottery Sherd	miner_pottery_sherd	676	Item	item.miner_pottery_sherd.name
Mourner Pottery Sherd	mourner_pottery_sherd	677	Item	item.mourner_pottery_sherd.name
Plenty Pottery Sherd	plenty_pottery_sherd	678	Item	item.plenty_pottery_sherd.name
Prize Pottery Sherd	prize_pottery_sherd	679	Item	item.prize_pottery_sherd.name
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	sheaf_pottery_sherd	680	Item	item.sheaf_pottery_sherd.name
Shelter Pottery Sherd	shelter_pottery_sherd	681	Item	item.shelter_pottery_sherd.name
Skull Pottery Sherd	skull_pottery_sherd	682	Item	item.skull_pottery_sherd.name
Snort Pottery Sherd	snort_pottery_sherd	683	Item	item.snort_pottery_sherd.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Careful restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds	—	10G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Respecting the Remnants	Brush a Suspicious block to obtain a Pottery Sherd	Adventure	—	adventure/salvage_sherd
	Careful Restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds	Respecting the Remnants	—	adventure/craft_decorated_pot_using_only_sherds

History

October 3, 2020					Ceramic shards were announced at Minecraft Live 2020.
February 10, 2023					Sofia Dankis posted an article about upcoming archaeology features, including pottery shards.
Java Edition
1.20 (Experimental)		23w07a			Added pottery shards behind the Update 1.20 experimental datapack.
		1.19.4 Pre-release 3			Changed the texture of archer pottery shard.
1.20		23w12a			Pottery shards are now out of the 1.20 experimental data pack.
					Added another sixteen pottery shards.
					The probability for the archer, prize, and skull pottery shards to generate in the suspicious sand in desert temple and in desert well has been changed from 1/7 to 1/8, for the arms up pottery sherd to generate in the suspicious sand in desert well has been changed from 3/7 to 1/4.
		23w16a			Renamed "Pottery Shard" to "Pottery Sherd".
					Burn, danger, friend, heart, heartbreak, howl and sheaf pottery sherds no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
					Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; burn, danger, friend, heart, heartbreak, howl and sheaf pottery sherds now are in the rare loot.
		23w17a			The probability of the burn, danger, friend, heart, heartbreak, howl, and sheaf pottery sherds to generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins has been changed from 1/11 to 1/12.
					The player now gets the advancement "Respecting the remnants" when they brush a suspicious sand or a suspicious gravel to obtain a pottery sherd, "Careful restoration" when they craft a decorated pot using 4 pottery sherds.
Bedrock Edition
Next Major Update (Experimental)		beta 1.19.70.23			Added pottery shards behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.19.80.20			Changed the texture of archer pottery shard.
		beta 1.19.80.22			Added another sixteen pottery shards.
					Changed the texture of arms up, prize and skull pottery shards.
		beta 1.20.0.20			Miner pottery shard can generate in desert pyramids.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.21			Pottery shards are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.20.0.22			Renamed "Pottery Shard" to "Pottery Sherd".

Issues

Issues relating to "Pottery Sherd" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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
    • It could depict a ruby from Minecraft Earth, as well.
  • 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.

Gallery

Items

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  Angler Pottery Sherd

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  Archer Pottery Sherd

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  Arms Up Pottery Sherd

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  Blade Pottery Sherd

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  Brewer Pottery Sherd

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  Burn Pottery Sherd

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  Danger Pottery Sherd

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  Explorer Pottery Sherd

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  Friend Pottery Sherd

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  Heart Pottery Sherd

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  Heartbreak Pottery Sherd

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  Howl Pottery Sherd

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  Miner Pottery Sherd

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  Mourner Pottery Sherd

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  Plenty Pottery Sherd

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  Prize Pottery Sherd

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  Sheaf Pottery Sherd

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  Shelter Pottery Sherd

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  Skull Pottery Sherd

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  Snort Pottery Sherd

Development images

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  Blue ceramic shard.

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  Ceramic shards.

Official artwork

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  Pixel artwork of Ari holding a skull pottery sherd.

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  Ari holding up a different sherd.

Notes

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