Pottery Sherd

Pottery Sherd
Rarity tier	Uncommon
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)

Pottery sherds^{[note 1]} are items with 23 variants used to craft decorated pots with ornamental designs. Pottery sherds are found in trial chambers, suspicious sand, and suspicious gravel.

Variants

There are 23 pottery sherds:

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.

Generated loot

Pottery sherds can be found as suspicious sand or suspicious gravel 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 and Bedrock Edition
Archer Pottery Sherd	Desert Pyramid	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Archer Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert Pyramid", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
Miner Pottery Sherd	Desert Pyramid	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Miner Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert Pyramid", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
Prize Pottery Sherd	Desert Pyramid	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Prize Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert Pyramid", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
Skull Pottery Sherd	Desert Pyramid	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Skull Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert Pyramid", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
Arms Up Pottery Sherd	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	25% { "item": "Arms Up Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.25, "structure": "Desert well", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
Brewer Pottery Sherd	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	25% { "item": "Brewer Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.25, "structure": "Desert well", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
Angler Pottery Sherd	Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7% { "item": "Angler Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }
Shelter Pottery Sherd	Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7% { "item": "Shelter Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }
Snort Pottery Sherd	Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7% { "item": "Snort Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }
Blade Pottery Sherd	Ocean Ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7% { "item": "Blade Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }
Explorer Pottery Sherd	Ocean Ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7% { "item": "Explorer Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }
Mourner Pottery Sherd	Ocean Ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7% { "item": "Mourner Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }
Plenty Pottery Sherd	Ocean Ruins	Cold ruins suspicious gravel	1	6.7% { "item": "Plenty Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Cold ruins suspicious gravel" }
Burn Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Burn Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Danger Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Danger Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Friend Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Friend Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Heart Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Heart Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Heartbreak Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Howl Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Howl Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Sheaf Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Sheaf Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }

Natural generation

Decorated pots with scrape, flow, and guster pottery sherds on their sides naturally generate in trial chambers.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Pottery Sherd or Brick

Achievements


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

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Careful Restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4	—
	Respecting the Remnants	Brush a Suspicious block to obtain a	Brush either suspicious sand or suspicious gravel and have any pottery sherd in the inventory. These two events can happen separately from one another.

History

Java Edition
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.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20	23w07a	Added pottery shards behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.20	23w12a	Pottery shards are now out of the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
	23w12a	Added another sixteen pottery shards.
	23w16a	Renamed "Pottery Shard" to "Pottery Sherd".
	23w17a	The player now gets the advancement "Respecting the Remnants" when they brush suspicious sand or a suspicious gravel to obtain a pottery sherd and also gets "Careful Restoration" when they craft a decorated pot using 4 pottery sherds.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21	24w11a	Added the flow, guster, and scrape pottery sherds.
1.21	24w18a	Flow, guster, and scrape pottery sherds are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.21.2	24w33a	The rarity of pottery sherds has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
Bedrock Edition
1.19.70 Experiment Next Major Update	Preview 1.19.70.23	Added pottery shards behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update	Preview 1.19.80.22	Added another sixteen pottery shards.
1.20.0	Preview 1.20.0.21	Pottery shards are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
	Preview 1.20.0.22	Renamed "Pottery Shard" to "Pottery Sherd".
	Preview 1.20.0.23	Players now get the achievement "Careful restoration" when crafting a decorated pot out of four pottery sherds.
1.20.80 Experiment Update 1.21	Preview 1.20.80.22	Added the flow, guster, and scrape pottery sherds.
1.21.30	Preview 1.21.30.21	The rarity of pottery sherds has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".

Issues

Issues relating to "Pottery Sherd" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Icons

Angler Pottery Sherd
Archer Pottery Sherd
Arms Up Pottery Sherd
Blade Pottery Sherd
Brewer Pottery Sherd
Burn Pottery Sherd
Danger Pottery Sherd
Explorer Pottery Sherd
Flow Pottery Sherd
Friend Pottery Sherd
Guster Pottery Sherd
Heart Pottery Sherd
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd
Howl Pottery Sherd
Miner Pottery Sherd
Mourner Pottery Sherd
Plenty Pottery Sherd
Prize Pottery Sherd
Scrape Pottery Sherd
Sheaf Pottery Sherd
Shelter Pottery Sherd
Skull Pottery Sherd
Snort Pottery Sherd

Development images

Blue ceramic shard.
Ceramic shards.

In other media

Pixel artwork of Ari holding a skull pottery sherd.
Ari holding up an arms up pottery sherd.

Notes

↑ The word "sherd" or "potsherd" is used by archaeologists to refer to fragments of pottery or other ceramics in order to differentiate them from "shards" of glass, metal, minerals and other materials.

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[1] The word "sherd" or "potsherd" is used by archaeologists to refer to fragments of pottery or other ceramics in order to differentiate them from "shards" of glass, metal, minerals and other materials.

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