Friend Pottery Sherd

A friend pottery sherd is a pottery sherd that depicts the unibrow and nose of a villager or iron golem. The design features a unibrow spanning the entire forehead and lacks a mouth, making the icon particularly similar to the facial features of an iron golem. However, this is difficult to determine with certainty. It can be found in trail ruins.

Obtaining

Breaking

Breaking a decorated pot causes it to drop all of the bricks and pottery sherds used to craft it, meaning it drops each of the friend pottery sherds that were used to craft it.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Friend Pottery Sherd	Trail Ruins	Rare suspicious gravel	1	8.3% { "item": "Friend Pottery Sherd", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08333333333333337, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Rare suspicious gravel" }

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Friend pottery sherds can be used to craft decorated pots.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any pottery sherd or brick

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Friend Pottery Sherd	`friend_pottery_sherd`	Item	`item.minecraft.friend_pottery_sherd`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Friend Pottery Sherd	`friend_pottery_sherd`	`672`	Item	`item.friend_pottery_sherd.name`

Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Careful restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds	—	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Respecting the Remnants	Brush a Suspicious block to obtain a Pottery Sherd	Brush either suspicious sand or suspicious gravel and have any pottery sherd in the inventory. These two events can happen separately from one another.
	Careful Restoration	Make a Decorated Pot out of 4 Pottery Sherds	—

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.20	23w12a	Added friend pottery shards.
	23w16a	Renamed "Friend Pottery Shard" to "Friend Pottery Sherd".
		Friend pottery sherds no longer generate in suspicious sand in trail ruins, as the block no longer generates in the structure.
		Due to the split of the archaeology loot tables of trail ruins; friend pottery sherds are now in the rare loot table.
	23w17a	The probability of the friend pottery sherds generating in trail ruins has been changed from 1/11 to 1/12.
	23w17a	The player now gets the advancement "Respecting the remnants" when they brush a suspicious sand or a suspicious gravel to obtain a pottery sherd, and "Careful restoration" when they craft a decorated pot using 4 pottery sherds.
1.21.2	24w33a	Changed rarity from "Common" to "Uncommon".

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update	Preview 1.19.80.22	Added friend pottery shards.
1.20.0	Preview 1.20.0.21	Friend pottery shards are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
	Preview 1.20.0.22	Renamed "Friend Pottery Shard" to "Friend Pottery Sherd".
	Preview 1.20.0.23	Players now get the achievement "Careful restoration" when crafting a decorated pot out of four pottery sherds.
1.21.30	Preview 1.21.30.21	Changed rarity from "Common" to "Uncommon".

Issues

Issues relating to "Friend Pottery Sherd" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.