As a mostly decorative item, Flower Pots can make any area look nicer in Minecraft. Crafting one is relatively straightforward and you’ll need only some basic ingredients, such as Clay, as well as certain tools to craft Flower Pots.
What You Need to Craft a Flower Pot
To craft a Flower Pot, all you will need is 3 Brick and a Crafting Table. Brick is a building material that is different from the decorative item known as Bricks (also known as Brick Blocks). Place the 3 Brick in a ‘V’ shape, with the bottom of the ‘V’ being in the middle slot of the Crafting Table.
How to Make Brick
Brick is made by putting Clay into a Furnace and cooking it like how you would cook food items. Every 1 lump of Clay cooked this way will give you 1 Brick. The cooking time is the same as for food, and the cooking process can be tracked by watching the white arrow in the Furnace menu fill up.
Where to Get Clay
You can often find lots of Clay blocks underwater, like in riverbeds or at the bottom of lakes. They can be identified by their bluish-gray coloring. Clay blocks can be most easily mined with a shovel, similar to Sand and Gravel. Every time you break a Clay block, it will drop multiple lumps of Clay.
Where You Can Find Naturally Spawned Flower Pots
Sometimes, Flower Pots can spawn in randomly-generated structures and therefore can be looted. When you find one, these randomly-generated Flower Pots will have different plants in them depending on where they’re found. Here’s where you can find Flower Pots:
- Witch Huts
- Igloos
- Woodland Mansions
- Villager Houses
How to Use Flower Pots
Despite their name hinting otherwise, Flower Pots can be used to plant more than just flowers. You can plant mushrooms, saplings, and much more in them. However, you can’t insert just any kind of plant into Flower Pots, which can be a bit confusing.
To put a plant into a Flower Pot, hold the desired bit of vegetation in your hand and then use it on the Flower Pot. You can get the plant back out in the same manner. If your break a Flower Pot while there is a plant inside, you will get both the Flower Pot and the plant as drops.
Plants That You Can Put Into Flower Pots
- Any kind of flower
- Any kind of fungi
- Any kind of tree sapling (will not grow into a tree)
- Bamboo
- Cactus
- Dead Bush
- Fern
- Roots
Placing and Breaking Flower Pots
You can easily place a Flower Pot on the ground by using it while it’s in your hand. Simply point at the spot you want to place the Flower Pot and click the ‘use’ button, which will vary depending on the platform you’re playing on. You can break a Flower Pot by using an empty hand or any kind of item, which will cause it to drop itself for easy pick-up.
Interesting Uses for Flower Pots
While you can use Flower Pots as lovely decorative items around your home and other areas, they have other uses as well.
Firstly, you can step on a Flower Pot without needing to jump onto it, as they are 3/8ths of a block high. You can’t use them like how you would use stairs or slabs to walk onto 1-block-high surfaces, although, you can use them to jump onto a fence, which is normally impossible to do from the ground.
Next, when you plant a Cactus or a Wither Rose in a Flower Pot, these plants lose their natural ability to hurt you on contact. As such, you won’t have to fear being around these blocks if you want to use them for decoration.
Lastly, you can use Warped Fungus placed into Flower Pots to ward away Hoglins, as these foul monsters hate Warped Fungus.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of things you can make in Minecraft. The simple yet intuitive crafting system lends itself to a nearly infinite number of combinations of ingredients to make just about anything you can imagine. One of the most popular pastimes in Minecraft is designing and decorating your very own world, whether that be a simple house, a castle, a farm, or even cities and entire worlds. The more options you have to personalize, the more ownership you feel over your creation.
Difficulty
Easy
Duration
30 minutes
What You Need
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Furnace
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Clay
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Crafting table
Flowers have been a natural occurrence in Minecraft since the start, and have always been a perfect way to add some color and life to your creations. While you could simply plant them in the dirt, that isn't always the most appropriate for your situation. Thankfully, that's where flower pots come in. These simple flower holders make placing your plants much more seamless and easy. However, given that they're not something you ever really need to make, it can be hard to remember just how to make them sometimes. Never fear, because we are here to help you perfect your gardening experience in Minecraft.
How to make flower pots
Flower pots can be easily crafted with just a few tools and ingredients. As long as you're far enough in the game to have some basic stone tools, you can easily gather everything you need early on. Here's how to make one.
Step 1: Craft a Crafting Table. Any basic Crafting Table will do, which is made out of four wood planks from any tree.
Step 2: Craft a Furnace. Furnaces may seem complex, but they are almost as easy to make as Crafting Tables. Just get yourself eight cobblestones, place them in your crafting table around the outside edges, leaving a blank space in the middle, and you're done.
Step 3: Find clay balls. Clay balls are what drop when you break open clay blocks, which typically can be found either below or near water, such as by oceans, beaches, and swamps. Each block will give you four clay balls, and you will need at least three.
Step 4: Put at least three clay in the furnace. This will transform the clay into bricks.
Step 5: Take at least three bricks and place them in the left, bottom middle, and right squares of the Crafting Table to make a flower pot.
Once made, you can place the flower pot down and place not only flowers but plenty of other things inside of it. You can hold mushrooms, saplings, cacti, bamboo, and more to decorate your area with whatever flora you desire.