Terracotta is a sleek, solid block that comes in a variety of colors. You can glaze it for stylish patterns, dye it using any of the 16 colors available, and it works great for adding smooth textures or vibrant accents to your creations. It’s a handy block that you can either find or make on your own!

Required Materials for Terracotta

1. Clay Block (4 clay balls)
2. Furnace

If you want to make terracotta on your own, start by shaping clay into blocks. You can either use a silk touch tool to dig up whole clay blocks or turn clay balls into blocks. Just a heads up, using a fortune enchanted tool won’t give you more clay balls, so it’s smarter to go with a silk touch tool to save time. Once you have your clay blocks, you’ll need to cook them in a furnace with your preferred fuel.

How to Make Terracotta

To create terracotta in Minecraft, start by putting clay in the top slot of the furnace interface. Next, add some fuel like coal or wood in the bottom slot. Just hang tight until the arrow in the center fills up. Once your charcoal is ready, click and drag it into your inventory.

There are two main methods to get your hands on terracotta: you can either create it yourself or find a mesa biome where it naturally occurs. Finding a mesa is largely a matter of luck, and other than moving quickly, there’s not much strategy involved. So, let’s focus on the more straightforward approach. Look for clay blocks, typically found in shallow ponds and lakes, and you can easily turn those into terracotta.

Clay is a light gray block often found beneath the water. You can easily break it with any silk touch tool to collect the whole block. If you don’t have a silk touch tool, just use any tool or your hands to get 4 clay balls instead. Grab as much clay as you want to make terracotta, then head over to a furnace. Put your clay in the top slot and add some fuel to get it going.

You’ll finish with uncolored terracotta that has a lovely smooth reddish-brown shade. It can be tough to track down a block that’s primarily one color and super smooth. Terracotta gives you the chance to use just one sleek color.

How to Use Terracotta

Now that you’ve got your terracotta ready, the possibilities are endless! First up, let’s add some color to it. If you place a dye in the center and surround it with 8 terracotta blocks, you can color those blocks with that dye.

You can play around with up to 16 different smooth colored blocks. Besides the stained terracotta options, you can also glaze the terracotta for some stunning designs. Just pop the stained terracotta blocks into your furnace, since regular terracotta won’t work for glazing. Once you cook the stained terracotta, you’ll get glazed terracotta.

Glazed terracotta is totally different from stained terracotta. It has a unique texture, and you can come up with four different patterns using it.

Check out these four cool designs you can create with lime-glazed terracotta. The texture of the blocks will shift based on how you lay them down and which way you’re facing. Experiment with the arrangements to come up with a one-of-a-kind pattern. You can even mix and match some glazed terracotta pieces for a stylish floor design.

With 16 bases and 4 patterns for each, plus the chance to mix some terracotta designs, you can create thousands of different looks.

Conclusion

You can turn clay blocks into terracotta blocks using your furnace. To get clay blocks, just combine 4 clay balls into a block and then smelt it. Once you have terracotta, you can get creative with all sorts of designs and colors since you can dye it with any of the 16 colors. Plus, if you stain the terracotta and smelt it again, you can make glazed terracotta with even more patterns. The options are limitless!

Awesome job! You’ve just learned how to create one of the most versatile blocks in Minecraft. The smooth hues of terracotta are perfect for achieving that colored trim or solid look you want. Plus, you can stain and smelt terracotta to make some really cool blocks. There’s so much potential with terracotta, so grab a bunch of clay and start cooking to unleash your creativity!