Use it to craft a decorated pot in Minecraft. Four pottery sherds make a fully decorated pot, and you can swap in bricks for any missing sides to leave those sides blank.

How it works

  • Put the sherds in a crafting table.
  • Arrange up to four sherds, one for each side of the pot.
  • Mix different sherds for different designs, or use bricks for plain sides.

Where sherds come from

  • Brush suspicious sand or suspicious gravel.
  • Look in places like trail ruins, ocean ruins, desert pyramids, desert wells, and trial chambers.

Other use

  • They’re mostly decorative, not a major progression item.
  • You can also display them as part of your builds once they’re turned into pots.

TL;DR: pottery sherds are mainly for making decorated pots, with bricks as optional fillers for blank sides.