Are you playing the best Minecraft survival servers and looking to spruce up your base? Or do you want to showcase all the amazing plants you collect throughout the world? Flower pots are a great way to do just that! Whether you want to take home a bit of Cherry Grove or start your own garden, flower pots are the perfect addition to your world. So, let's dive in and discover how to make a flower pot in Minecraft and use it to decorate your base in style.
How to Make a Flower Pot in Minecraft
Our guide goes over everything you need to know about flower pots in Minecraft. You can explore all the sections that interest you at your convenience to make the most out of them.
How to Find a Flower Pot in Minecraft
Much like most other decorative items in the game, you don't have to craft a flower pot to get one. Instead, you can easily find one naturally in the following spots as well:
- Witch Huts
- Igloos
- Woodland Mansions
- Village Houses: plains, savanna, desert, and taiga
In each of these locations, the flower pots spawn with a unique plant. You can break the flower pot to make the pot as well as the plan it's containing to drop as an item. Doing so doesn't require any special tool like a pickaxe or even enchantments.
Items Required to Make a Flower Pot
You only need the following items to make a flower pot in Minecraft:
- 3 Clay balls
- Furnace
- Crafting Table
Creating a crafting table is quite easy, all you need to do is combine four planks in your inventory's crafting grid to make one. You can use any type of wood in this recipe including the new bamboo wood of Minecraft. Meanwhile, our linked guide will help you get your furnace up and running.
How to Get Clay Balls
The easiest way to obtain clay balls is by breaking clay blocks that generate underwater in the following spots:
- Swamps and Mangrove Swamps
- Beaches
- Oceans
- Rivers
You have to go to the waterbed and break the clay block in each of these spots. Irrespective of what you use to break it, every clay block drops four clay balls. Alternatively, you can also check the mason's chests and house chests (deserts only) in villages to obtain clay balls.
Moreover, if you are on Minecraft 1.20, the new trail ruins structure also has clay balls inside the suspicious sand or gravel blocks. A brush will help you uncover them to obtain the desired item.
Crafting Recipe of a Flower Pot in Minecraft
After collecting all the required items, follow these steps to create a flower pot in Minecraft:
1. To begin, open a furnace and put clay balls in its top slot with fuel in the bottom one. You can use planks as fuel to make things easier. Within a few seconds, the clay balls will smelt and turn into bricks. But please don't confuse them with stone bricks which are a reliable building block in the game.
2. Then, place the bricks in a v-shaped arrangement on the crafting table to craft your flower pots in Minecraft.
How to Use a Flower Pot
Once your flower pot is ready, it's time to use it to decorate your base and potentially the entire world. Follow these steps to learn how:
1. First, equip the flower pot and then use right-click or secondary action key to place it down. In the Java edition, you can place it on top of any block. But on the Bedrock edition, the pots can be only placed on top of full blocks, fences, stone walls, and hoppers.
2. Then, you can just have to equip a plant in your hand and use it on the flower pot to place it inside it. The pot supports all plants that are one block tall including flowers, ferns, dead bushes, cacti, bamboo, saplings, azaleas, mangrove propagule, and roots.
Make and Use Flower Pots in Minecraft
But why stop there? Take it a step further with armor trims and unlock new designs for your armor to show off in style. But why stop there? We suggest you also get armor trims in Minecraft to unlock new designs for your armor. On the other hand, you can get a Sniffer in Minecraft to discover some additional plants for your new garden. Though, at the moment, they are too large to fit into the flower pots. But, who knows, the developers might change that before the release date of Minecraft 1.20 comes around. With that said, what are you growing in your flower pot? Share your ideas on the Discord server!