The Friend Pottery Sherd is one of the decorative archeology items added with the Trail Ruins update. Players obtain it by brushing suspicious gravel found inside Trail Ruins structures, which generate in the overworld near old buried pathways. The motif on the sherd shows two figures standing close together, one with an arm around the other, commonly read as a depiction of friendship or companionship.

Like all sherds, this fragment cannot be crafted — brushing is the only source. Its main use is in the Decorated Pot recipe: four sherds or bricks are arranged in a plus shape around an empty center slot on the crafting grid. The face of the finished pot that shows a given design corresponds to the slot where that sherd was placed, so builders can plan which side faces the viewer. A Decorated Pot has a single-stack inventory slot and accepts hoppers above and below for automation. When broken with bare hands the pot drops as a whole item; broken with any tool, it shatters back into its individual sherds, allowing the Friend sherd to be recovered and reused.