Pottery Sherds & Flag Banners

Design a decorated pot from 4 sherds, browse all pottery sherd patterns, and build country-flag banner layer lists.

All previews on this page are CSS approximations for quick reference — not pixel-perfect in-game renders. Always confirm the final look in Minecraft itself.

How to Use the Decorated Pot Designer

  1. Pick a pottery sherd (or leave a side as Plain (brick)) for each of the pot’s four sides: front, back, left, and right.
  2. Watch the live preview update as you choose – each face shows the sherd currently assigned to it.
  3. Copy the generated /give command, which encodes your exact combination using the pot_decorations item component.
  4. Browse the full sherd reference grid below the designer to see all 23 real pottery sherd patterns and their item ids.

How Decorated Pots Work

A decorated pot is built from up to four pottery sherds (or plain bricks) fit into a crafting-table pattern, one per side. In-game and in commands, that combination is stored as the pot_decorations item component – a list of exactly four entries, in a specific slot order: back, left, right, front. This tool’s UI presents the four sides in reading order (front/back/left/right) for a more intuitive layout, but the command it generates always emits them in the real back/left/right/front order the game actually expects – so the pot you build here matches what you’ll get in-game exactly, even though the on-screen layout order differs from the underlying data order.

A side left as Plain (brick) uses minecraft:brick in that slot instead of a sherd item id, which is exactly how crafting a pot with fewer than four sherds behaves – the remaining slots are just plain bricks, and the pot still works, just with fewer decorated faces.

The 23 sherd patterns cover the original 20 added with the Trails & Tales update (angler, archer, arms up, blade, brewer, burn, danger, explorer, friend, heart, heartbreak, howl, miner, mourner, plenty, prize, sheaf, shelter, skull, snort) plus three more – flow, guster, and scrape – added later and found specifically in decorated pots generated inside trial chamber corridors.

Frequently Asked Questions

What order do the sherds need to be in for the give command to look right in-game?

The pot_decorations component always lists sides in back, left, right, front order – regardless of the order you clicked through them in this tool’s UI. The generator handles that reordering for you automatically, so the command it outputs will always place each sherd on the correct physical face.

Can I make a decorated pot with only one or two sherds instead of four?

Yes – any side you leave as Plain (brick) is filled with minecraft:brick in the component, which is exactly how a partially-decorated pot behaves when crafted normally. You don’t need a sherd on every side for the pot to be valid.

Where do the flow, guster, and scrape sherds come from?

Those three were added after the original 20 Trails & Tales sherds and are found in decorated pots generated inside trial chamber corridors, alongside the mechanics introduced by that structure (trial spawners, vaults, and ominous variants).

Is the live preview an accurate 3D render of the pot?

No – it’s a flat 2D layout showing which sherd is assigned to which labeled face, meant for quickly checking your combination rather than replicating the in-game 3D model. The slot order (back/left/right/front) is what actually determines the real in-game appearance once you use the give command.

Related Tools

  • Flag Banner Gallery – build country-flag-style banner designs using real Minecraft banner patterns.
  • Banner Designer – the full banner pattern/layer designer these flag recipes are built from.
  • Give Command Generator – build give commands for other items, not just decorated pots.