Minecraft

How to Craft Terracotta in Minecraft

To craft terracotta in Minecraft you need one clay block and a furnace. Put the clay in the top slot, fuel underneath, and one terracotta comes out on the right. Below are the items, the recipe, and where that clay comes from.

Furnace
  • 1 Clay
Terracotta
Materials
Item Qty Where to get it
Clay 1 Put four clay balls in a 2×2 square. A Silk Touch shovel also picks the block up whole. This ingredient is crafted too — station below.

Terracotta specs

Difficulty
Early game
Where it lives
Smelted. Badlands biomes spawn terracotta already.
Where to get it
Put a clay block in the top of a furnace with fuel underneath.
Item ID
minecraft:terracotta
Legacy item ID
minecraft:hardened_clay
Numerical ID
172
Stackable
Yes
Max stack
64
Renewable
Yes
Hardness
1.25
Blast resistance
4.2
Material
Stone
Diggable
Yes
Give command
/give @p minecraft:terracotta 1
Time to break
ItemTime to break
Golden Pickaxe 0.16s
Netherite Pickaxe 0.21s
Diamond Pickaxe 0.23s
Iron Pickaxe 0.31s
Stone Pickaxe 0.47s
Wooden Pickaxe 0.94s
Hand 9.38s · No

Ingredient specs

Clay Ball

Early game
Where to get it
Break a clay block with a shovel in shallow water, swamps or lush caves.
Where it lives
Riverbeds, lake shallows, swamps and lush cave floors.
Item ID
minecraft:clay_ball
Numerical ID
337
Stackable
Yes
Max stack
64
Renewable
Yes
Material
Item
Diggable
No

Clay

Early game
Where to get it
Put four clay balls in a 2×2 square. A Silk Touch shovel also picks the block up whole.
Where it lives
Shallow water, swamps, lush caves. Crafted from balls.
Item ID
minecraft:clay
Numerical ID
82
Stackable
Yes
Max stack
64
Renewable
Yes
Hardness
0.6
Blast resistance
0.6
Material
dirt
Diggable
Yes

How to craft these materials

Clay

Inventory (2×2)
Clay Ball
Clay Ball
Clay Ball
Clay Ball
Clay

A clay block, not a clay ball

Dig clay with a shovel in shallow water, a swamp, or a lush cave. A normal shovel drops four clay balls; put those four in a 2×2 square in the inventory and the clay block comes back. Silk Touch on the shovel picks the block up whole. A single ball in the furnace becomes a brick; this smelt wants the full block.

Clay in the furnace

Open a furnace. Clay block in the top slot, fuel underneath. Coal, charcoal, or a wooden log all work. When the arrow fills, one terracotta sits on the right; take it. A full stack is sixty-four smelts.

A hard orange wall

Place it. A pickaxe breaks the block and it drops. Eight terracotta around a dye on the Crafting Table stain a whole batch. Badlands already spawn terracotta if you would rather mine it than smelt.

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