The Scrape Pottery Sherd is recovered only by breaking decorated pots that generate naturally in trial chambers, the underground structures introduced in Minecraft 1.21. Each pot shatters into its four component sherds or bricks, and roughly 1 pot in 13 (7.7%) carries a Scrape Pottery Sherd — the rest hold other sherds or plain bricks. Like every sherd it cannot be crafted and is not renewable. Its face shows a curved scraping tool, the blade motif that gives the sherd its name.

The fragment is consumed in the Decorated Pot recipe: four sherds or bricks fill a 2x2 crafting grid, and each slot sets the design of one face, so the scraping motif appears on the side matching the sherd's position. A finished Decorated Pot drops whole when broken bare-handed or with a Silk Touch tool, but any tool without Silk Touch — or a projectile — shatters it back into its four components. The pot stores a single item stack and accepts hoppers above and below for automated transfer.