How to Make a Flower Pot in Minecraft

The fun in Minecraft is all the creative things you can build. With the endless possibilities, there’s a reason it’s still popular after all these years. If you want to know how to make a flower pot in Minecraft, it’s simple and a feature available in most versions and platforms of the game. You’ll need a crafting table and three bricks. If you’re making the bricks yourself, you’ll also need a furnace.

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Steps to Make a Flower Pot in Minecraft

Let’s cover all the basics to make your flower pot:

1. Make a Crafting Table

If you’re asking how to make a flower pot in Minecraft, you probably already know that a crafting table can help make complicated items. Here’s how to make one:

1. Gather 4 wood planks of any type
2. Open your crafting menu
3. Put the 4 planks in the crafting grid
4. Your new table will appear in your crafting menu in the box on the right
5. Put the table in your inventory for future use
6. When you’re ready to use it, put the table on the ground and open it. Notice your crafting grid is larger

2. Build a Furnace

Now that your crafting grid is 3 x 3 instead of 2 x 2, you can craft your furnace. If you want another simple smelting project, this Minecraft glass guide is a helpful next step. Here’s how to craft your furnace:

1. Gather 8 Blackstones or Cobblestones in the outer squares of your crafting grid. The middle square stays empty
   
   
2. Put the furnace on the ground and open the smelting menu
3. You’ll need to gather fuel, such as bamboo, wood, coal, kelp, etc. Put the fuel on the left bottom box in your furnace menu
4. Mine clay blocks (found near rivers, lakes, and shallow water) to collect clay balls — each clay block drops 4 clay balls when broken. Place a clay ball in the top left box of your furnace menu. Note: do not smelt a whole clay block, as that produces terracotta, not bricks
5. Once your progress bar is filled, you’ll have one brick that you can put in your inventory. Repeat this process two more times until you have 3 bricks total

3. How to Make a Flower Pot in Minecraft Using Your Crafting Table

Now that you have 3 bricks, here’s how to make a flower pot in Minecraft:

1. Open your crafting table
2. Put a brick in the first row’s first and third boxes
3. Put a brick in the middle box of the second row. Be sure to follow this pattern exactly
   
4. Your flower pot should appear in the box on the right of your crafting menu
5. Put the pot in your inventory and use it as desired

You can decorate with plants and flowers you use with the pot. If you want azalea for your build, you can locate azalea trees first. If you’re also branching into brewing, our Minecraft poison brewing guide is a handy next step. Put the flower pot on the ground and your plant of choice on top.

Frequently Asked Questions

What plants can be potted in Minecraft?

Once you’ve crafted your flower pot, place it on any solid surface, then right-click (or use your interact button) while holding a compatible plant to pot it. Most small decorative plants work, including:

• Flowers
• Tree saplings
• Dead bushes (if that’s your thing)
• Bamboo
• Cacti (when planted, they don’t hurt the player)
• Mushrooms and fungi

Larger plants and crops — such as wheat, tall grass, or sunflowers — cannot be placed in a flower pot. If you want to swap out what’s planted, simply break the potted plant and both the flower pot and the plant item will be returned to your inventory, ready to be reused.

What do you need to make a flower pot in Minecraft?

3 bricks and a crafting table. It’s helpful to have a furnace too, to make the bricks yourself. Knowing how to make a flower pot in Minecraft means you’ll always have a quick and easy decorative option ready for any build.

Can you make decorative pots in Minecraft?

Yes, but it’s worth knowing that a decorated pot is an entirely separate block from a flower pot — they look different, are crafted differently, and serve different purposes.

A flower pot is the small planter crafted from 3 bricks. It’s used to hold and display small plants like flowers, saplings, and mushrooms, and is the item this guide covers.

A decorated pot is a different block crafted from 4 pottery sherds (or a mix of pottery sherds and bricks), arranged in a diamond pattern in your crafting grid. It functions primarily as a decorative storage block and cannot be used to plant flowers or other plants the way a flower pot can.

Finding the sherds takes time, as you’ll need to excavate archaeological sites to obtain them. Here’s how to craft one:

1. Gather 4 pottery sherds (or a combination of pottery sherds and bricks)
2. Put them in a diamond pattern in your crafting grid

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1. Enjoy your decorated pot

How you place the sherds determines the decorated faces of your pot. Also, you can use a combination of sherds and bricks if you only want certain sides of the pot decorated, leaving the others plain. The bottom slot is the side of the pot that will face outward, so if you want to make it fancy, that’s where to put the sherd. The beauty of this game is the customization. Now that you know how to make a flower pot in Minecraft and the difference between a flower pot and a decorated pot, go nuts!