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Terracotta

A hardened clay building block made by smelting a clay block. It can be dyed into 16 colors and smelted a second time into glazed terracotta.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.6

Item ID

terracotta

Terracotta at a glance

Minecraft files Terracotta under Utility Blocks: a block you get from smelting, mining, and natural world generation. 64 Terracotta fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest.

Breaking Terracotta works against a hardness of 1.25. Explosions work against a resistance of 4.2. Any pickaxe will do on Terracotta, from wood upward. It sits between Sugar Cane and Torch in Utility Blocks, number 316 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Furnace
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How to obtain

  • Smelting
  • Mining
  • Natural generation

Cooking

Heat is all Terracotta asks for: Clay goes in a furnace and comes back out. Give it 10 seconds per Terracotta in the furnace. Each Terracotta hands back 0.35 experience, and 64 Terracotta make 22.4.

Notes

Produced by smelting a clay block, not clay balls. Generates naturally in badlands biomes in several colors.

Frequently asked questions about Terracotta

  1. Clay going into Terracotta, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Terracotta in Minecraft?

    Terracotta is crafted from Clay at a Furnace, in a single step. It also comes from smelting, Terracotta from mining, and Terracotta from natural world generation, not just the recipe above.

  2. Terracotta as a block, next to the pickaxe its 1.25 hardness asks for

    How long does Terracotta take to break?

    Two figures cover Terracotta: 1.25 to mine, 4.2 to blow it up. Because the numbers differ on Terracotta, one of the two routes into it is always quicker. Any pickaxe will do on Terracotta, from wood upward. Java 26.2 records Terracotta with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

  3. Terracotta coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.6

    When was Terracotta added to Minecraft?

    Terracotta was added in version 1.6.

  4. Terracotta on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Terracotta used for?

    A hardened clay building block made by smelting a clay block. It can be dyed into 16 colors and smelted a second time into glazed terracotta.

  5. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Terracotta

    How do you cook Terracotta?

    Heat is all Terracotta asks for: Clay goes in a furnace and comes back out. Give it 10 seconds per Terracotta in the furnace. Each Terracotta hands back 0.35 experience, and 64 Terracotta make 22.4.

  6. 64 Terracotta drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Terracotta can you stack?

    64 Terracotta fills a slot, and that slot costs 64 Clay, which is 64 smelts at the furnace. A shulker box of Terracotta comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Building with it

Clay smelted gives terracotta, and dyed it comes in all sixteen colours. Its muted tones are what make it the favourite block of large builds: sixteen colours that sit next to each other without shouting, and badlands biomes supply it by the thousand already coloured.

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