Prize Pottery Sherd
Pottery sherd showing a raised chalice, brushed from suspicious sand in ocean ruins.
Description
Like other sherds, it is used to craft a Decorated Pot. Place four sherds — or plain bricks — in a plus shape around an empty centre slot on the crafting grid; each piece's design appears on the side matching its slot, so the chalice motif can be shown on one to four faces. The finished pot stores a single item stack, accepts hoppers above and below, drops whole when broken bare-handed, and shatters back into its component sherds when broken with any tool.
How to get
How to get Prize Pottery Sherd in Minecraft
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Find ocean ruins on the seafloor
Prize Pottery Sherd is found exclusively inside cold ocean ruins and warm ocean ruins. Dive to the seafloor and look for crumbling stone structures. Both cold and warm variants contain suspicious sand blocks that may hold a Prize Pottery Sherd.
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Locate suspicious sand blocks
Inside the ocean ruins, look for suspicious sand — blocks with a slightly different texture compared to ordinary sand. Suspicious sand blocks in ocean ruins are the only source of Prize Pottery Sherd. Mine the suspicious sand gently with a brush rather than a shovel to avoid destroying the sherd inside.
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Use a brush to extract the Prize Pottery Sherd
Hold a brush and right-click (use) the suspicious sand block. Keep brushing until the suspicious sand clears and the Prize Pottery Sherd drops as an item. Each suspicious sand block has a chance to contain a Prize Pottery Sherd; if the block yields a different item, move on to the next suspicious sand block.
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Craft a Decorated Pot with the Prize Pottery Sherd
Open a crafting table and place Prize Pottery Sherd (or any combination of sherds and plain bricks) in the four outer slots of a plus pattern, leaving the centre empty. The design on each Prize Pottery Sherd appears on the corresponding side of the finished Decorated Pot. The Decorated Pot stores one item stack and drops intact when broken bare-handed, but breaks back into its component sherds when broken with any tool.
Prize Pottery Sherd has no crafting recipe and cannot be obtained from any villager trade or loot chest. Archaeology is the only way to get it. If you break a Decorated Pot with a tool, it shatters and returns the individual sherds — including Prize Pottery Sherd — so the sherd is never permanently lost.
Frequently asked questions
How do you get the Prize Pottery Sherd in Minecraft?
Prize Pottery Sherd is obtained by using a brush on suspicious sand blocks found inside cold ocean ruins and warm ocean ruins. There is no crafting recipe for Prize Pottery Sherd — archaeology is the only way to obtain it.
Can Prize Pottery Sherd be crafted?
No. Prize Pottery Sherd cannot be crafted with any recipe and is not available from villager trades or loot chests. The only way to get Prize Pottery Sherd is by brushing suspicious sand in ocean ruins.
Which structures contain suspicious sand with Prize Pottery Sherd?
Suspicious sand that can yield a Prize Pottery Sherd is found in cold ocean ruins and warm ocean ruins on the seafloor. Prize Pottery Sherd does not appear in suspicious gravel or in any other structure type.
How do you use Prize Pottery Sherd to make a Decorated Pot?
Place Prize Pottery Sherd in any of the four outer slots of a plus-shaped crafting pattern on a crafting table, leaving the centre empty. You can mix Prize Pottery Sherd with other sherds or plain bricks. The chalice motif of Prize Pottery Sherd will appear on the face of the Decorated Pot that corresponds to its crafting slot.
What happens when you break a Decorated Pot made with Prize Pottery Sherd?
Breaking a Decorated Pot with bare hands drops the pot as a whole block. Breaking it with any tool shatters the pot and returns all 4 component pieces — including Prize Pottery Sherd — as items, so the sherd is never permanently destroyed.
Which Minecraft update added Prize Pottery Sherd?
Prize Pottery Sherd was added in the Trails & Tales update, released as Minecraft Java Edition 1.20 and Bedrock Edition 1.20.0.
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