Heartbreak Pottery Sherd
Archaeology sherd from Trail Ruins showing a heart split by a jagged line — a quiet symbol of loss.
Block properties
| Item ID |
minecraft:heartbreak_pottery_sherd
|
|---|---|
| /give command |
/give @p minecraft:heartbreak_pottery_sherd
|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Renewable | No |
| Java Edition | 1.20 |
| Bedrock Edition | 1.19.80 |
Java Edition Guide
How to find and display the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd
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1
Locate a Trail Ruins site
Heartbreak Pottery Sherd generates only inside Trail Ruins, the buried structures found in taiga, snowy taiga, and old growth taiga biomes.
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2
Brush the suspicious gravel
Equip a Brush and hold right-click on suspicious gravel blocks inside the ruin. Each rare suspicious gravel has about an 8.3% chance of yielding this sherd.
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3
Craft a Decorated Pot
Place four sherds or bricks in a plus shape around the empty center of a crafting grid. The slot a sherd occupies decides which face of the Decorated Pot shows its motif.
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Recover the sherd safely
Break the Decorated Pot with bare hands to drop it whole, or with any tool to shatter it back into the four original sherds. Use bare hands to preserve the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd.
The Heartbreak Pottery Sherd has no crafting recipe and cannot be duplicated; every copy must be brushed out of suspicious gravel in Trail Ruins.
Frequently asked questions
Can you craft the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd?
No. The Heartbreak Pottery Sherd cannot be crafted, smelted, or traded for. The only way to obtain it is by brushing suspicious gravel inside Trail Ruins.
Where does the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd generate?
The sherd appears only in the rare suspicious gravel of Trail Ruins structures, found in taiga, snowy taiga, and old growth taiga biomes. Each rare gravel block has about an 8.3% chance of yielding it.
What is the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd used for?
Place four sherds or bricks in a plus shape on the crafting grid to build a Decorated Pot, and the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd stamps its motif onto one visible face. Sherds are also collected as decorative trophies.
Is the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd renewable?
No. It is a non-renewable archaeology item; each Trail Ruins site holds a finite amount of suspicious gravel, so the world supply of Heartbreak Pottery Sherds is limited.
What version added the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd?
It was added in Java Edition 1.20 (snapshot 23w12a) and Bedrock Edition 1.19.80 (Preview 1.19.80.22) as part of the archaeology system.
Can you recover the sherd after placing it on a Decorated Pot?
Yes. Break the Decorated Pot with bare hands to drop it whole, or with any tool to shatter it back into the four original sherds, including the Heartbreak Pottery Sherd.
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