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Quick answer
- Smelt dyed terracotta to get glazed terracotta. Plain terracotta doesn't work.
- Its pattern rotates depending on which way you face when you place it.
- Pistons can push it, but sticky pistons can't pull it.
Glazed terracotta has bold patterns that make great floors and walls. There's one design for each of the 16 colours.
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Making it
- Get
Terracotta, from badlands or by smelting clay blocks. - Craft 8 terracotta around 1 dye to make dyed terracotta.
- Smelt the dyed terracotta in a Furnace.
Buy itMason villagers sell all 16 colours for emeralds.
Making patterns
The pattern turns depending on the direction you face when you place each block. Place four of the same colour in a 2×2 square, turning as you go, and many colours join up into one big design.
Try every anglePlace one block, step round, place the next. Small rotations change the whole floor.
Piston tricks
- Pistons can push glazed terracotta.
- Sticky pistons can't pull it back.
- Slime and honey blocks don't stick to it.
Redstone builders use it to stop slime block contraptions grabbing the wrong blocks.
Cheat sheet
- Smelt dyed terracotta
- 16 colours, 16 patterns
- Rotation depends on facing
- Sticky pistons can't pull it
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