Flow Pottery Sherd
Pottery sherd with flowing wave lines, brushed from suspicious gravel in trial chambers.
Description
The sherd cannot be crafted and exists only as loot from the brush. To use it, place four sherds or bricks in a plus shape around an empty center on the crafting grid to assemble a Decorated Pot, where the face of each placed fragment appears on the corresponding side of the pot. The finished pot drops whole when broken bare-handed and shatters back into its component sherds when broken with any tool, has a single inventory slot, and accepts items from hoppers above and below.
Java & Bedrock Edition
How to get and use the Flow Pottery Sherd in Minecraft
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Craft a Brush
Craft a Brush from 3 materials arranged vertically in a crafting table: 1 feather in the top slot, 1 copper ingot in the middle, and 1 stick in the bottom slot.
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Locate a trial chamber
Trial chambers generate underground in the deepslate layer, roughly between y = −20 and y = −40. Look for their distinctive copper-and-tuff architecture while caving or use the /locate structure minecraft:trial_chambers command.
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Find suspicious gravel
Inside the trial chamber, look for suspicious gravel blocks — they have a lighter, speckled texture compared to regular gravel. Flow Pottery Sherds are one of the possible loot drops hidden inside.
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Brush the suspicious gravel
Hold the Brush in your hand and right-click (use) on a suspicious gravel block. Hold the button and watch the brushing animation until the item pops out. Each block yields exactly one item.
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Build a Decorated Pot
Place 4 items — any combination of pottery sherds and/or bricks — in a + shape on a crafting table (top, left, right, and bottom slots; center empty). The Flow Pottery Sherd placed in any of these 4 slots will display its flowing motif on the corresponding side of the finished Decorated Pot.
Breaking a Decorated Pot with your bare hand drops it whole. Hitting it with any tool shatters it into the individual sherds or bricks used to craft it, so you can recover the Flow Pottery Sherd if needed.
Frequently asked questions
Where do you find the Flow Pottery Sherd?
The Flow Pottery Sherd is found exclusively inside trial chambers, which generate in the deepslate layer (approximately y = −20 to y = −40). Use a Brush on suspicious gravel blocks inside the structure to uncover it.
Can you craft the Flow Pottery Sherd?
No. The Flow Pottery Sherd has no crafting recipe. It can only be obtained by brushing suspicious gravel inside a trial chamber.
What do you do with the Flow Pottery Sherd?
Use the Flow Pottery Sherd to craft a Decorated Pot. Place 4 sherds or bricks in a + shape on a crafting table (top, left, right, bottom slots; center empty). The sherd's flowing motif appears on the side of the pot where the sherd was placed.
What happens when you break a Decorated Pot?
Breaking a Decorated Pot with your bare hand drops the pot as a single item. Breaking it with any tool shatters it, returning the 4 individual sherds or bricks used to make it — including the Flow Pottery Sherd.
What version added the Flow Pottery Sherd?
The Flow Pottery Sherd was added in Minecraft 1.21 (the Tricky Trials update), together with trial chambers, the Breeze mob, and the trial key.
What other items share the Flow motif?
The Flow motif also appears on the Flow Banner Pattern and the Flow Armor Trim, both of which are likewise obtained inside trial chambers in Minecraft 1.21.
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