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Let's talk about Decorated Pot improvements!

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In the latest snapshot and preview, we're introducing improvements to Decorated Pot functionality! Here's a quick overview of what's changed: 

  • Players can now put items into a Decorated Pot block and then break the pot to get the items back.
  • Decorated Pots give great visual and audio feedback when players insert items, including a block animation that shows the pot wobbling
  • Decorated Pots now stack to 64 in the inventory
  • Decorated Pot blocks can be broken by projectiles

We're still working on these changes, so once you try them out for yourselves, let us know your feedback, thoughts, and suggestions in the comments! 

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    To be more useful, pots should store just one type of item but several stacks, more than a chest, so they can be used to store massive amounts of one material such as cobblestone.

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    I think it would be cool if you could pour liquids in it, when you break it, it would spill.

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    Another interesting idea is that pots can be filled with water buckets, and become an infinite source of water. To get rid of the water inside they must be broken.

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    The idea that you can store 64 items in the jars is incredible! Now I come to propose an even better change: filters depending on the pottery sherd you have in the crafting.

    For example,

    • "the Prize Pottery Sherd" can only store precious minerals (emerald, diamond),
    • "the Miner Pottery Sherd" can only store common minerals (coal, iron, copper, gold),
    • "the Angler Pottery Sherd" can only store fish,
    • and a final example could be the "Danger Pottery Sherd" that would only store items from hostile mobs.

    This could add a lot of depth to the game since there are currently no filters in Minecraft. The number of items it can filter would be directly affected by the quantity of pottery sherds used when crafting.

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    Great enhancement but can we stack more than one potion?? As they don’t currently stack? Can we fix this? Please

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    Fantastic changes to pots! This was definitely something I and many others thought of as soon as they were introduced, so it's great to see Mojang feels the same way. With this change, I think that pots containing loot could be incorporated into some existing structures. Not only would this be an interactive way to collect loot, but it would also teach players about using pots to store items, as well as their potential as decorative items.

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    It's amazing! The new features of Decorated pots are great, this is something new and unusual for Minecraft, and it looks like a masterpiece. I'd like to be able to pick up pots along with the items inside, maybe through a silk touch enchantment, or simply by breaking the pot with anything other than an axe, pickaxe, and projectiles (which also destroy the pot itself).

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    There needs to be a tag for "Cannot place into decorated pot".

    From brief testing, you can accidently end up placing a bow, sword (if shield is equipped) or another decorated pot (when trying to stack them for building purposes) into a pot, and I'm sure some would prefer a way to prevent this.

    I'm also not sure about the player interaction being anywhere on the block, just the top might feel more intuitive?

    and finally, I feel like players should have a way to get the items out one at a time same as putting them in.

    It would allow for more interesting storage where you don't have to constantly open and close chests to go find 5 or 5 items sorted in various groups, you just interact with the pots to quick grab a few items (food, enderpearls, cobble etc)

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    Now the decorated pots are incredible, I just miss being able to dye them

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    Without a doubt this function is incredible for both survival players, technicians, creatives, map makers, etc.

    It would be great to be able to find them in the caves with random loot (not very good loot) maybe a couple of bones, iron and rare probability of diamond, these could be generated without the need for a structure, they would also be a good addition and incentive to exploration beyond looking for minerals, it could also contain wood, sticks or bread for those players who are in trouble in the caves, it would be a great implementation that would make players not feel so alone in the world of Minecraft and add more lore to the game

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    Technically, pots are made of terracota so... would be nice to put the full palette of dyed terracota in the normal pots and decorated pots!

    Extra: And also color bricks?

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    idea: whenever someone puts a splash or lingering potion inside the pot, when the pot breaks the potion in it should splash instead of dropping the item, this could be really good for map makers and traps

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    Add the ability to put several types of items in a pot, like in a bundle. Anyway the feature is amazing, it's great that you listen to the players and keep working hard

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    1) Allow us to store more than one type of item in a pot (up to 64 per pot, like a bundle)

    2) Better break sound effects for pots, they're way too soft right now. Breaking pots for rewards should be satisfying like in Zelda, a large part of that is the sound effects.

    3) Sweep attack sounds and particle should play when breaking one with a sword, again to improve that satisfaction.

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    Observers should be able to detect an update when someone places an item into the pot since it technically counts as a "block update"

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    I'd love it if rails could go directly on top of the pots (for hopper minecarts and the pots pull the items in) or if thrown items were sucked into the pots like hoppers -- both options would mean pots could be used for super stylish and compact item sorting!

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    It would be cool if villagers could store their inventory items in the pot,
    that way it would be easier to collect food from farmer village because right now the only way to collect food from villager is waiting for the time when they try to breed and then stealing the food with hopper,
    but if they can store their harvest in pot then it would be more fun.

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    To improve the functionality of this new feature I would suggest that there is a way to make it so the pots don't drop their sherds on destruction, since dropping the sherds might get in the way of mini-game making. Wow they listened! Took a while to get there but they did in fact listen to the community.

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    It would be cool to be able to break pots with a sword just like Zelda!

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    The animations are amazing! This is fun to play with.

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    The new changes are fantastic ! But i do have a couple of suggestions to maybe make the pots even more perfect :

    - items could be put inside faster when the click is held, in the same way items are trown faster when the "drop" button is held

    - arrows and tridents could bounce off the pots so they dont falls on the ones under creating a breaking chain reaction

    - when the pot state is set to "cracked" it could not drop any sheard or bricks when broken, so the only items dropped would be the ones inside it

    - and finally, getting a pot with hand or Silk Touch could keep the items inside shulker box style (so in minigames i could use the partialy filled pots themself as a redstone lenght key code, without having to give additional items to put inside them)

    - bonus suggestion (following the last one) : maybe pots with the same item and number of items could be stacked together ? so we can fill one inventory slot with 64x64 items ? (not sure about this idea)

    Thank you for reading my suggestions

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    I have a bit of a radical idea for decorated pots: they should be able to pick up dropped items, similar to hoppers (but not push them to other containers). This is simply because they have an opening on the top of their texture! This could be work as another flavor of sorting, since pots can only hold one type of item at a time. What does everyone think of this idea?

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    I liked that they broke to recover the items. But it lends itself to being annoying when you put things in by mistake. Maybe if they broke only when it's more than half full; and when it is not in that limit, that they can be emptied

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    I love the changes, and think it would be cool if they could be used to add slightly more loot to structures. I think adding pots that have some random loot in them into structures or even just randomly spawning in caves or archeology sites would be cool and a good way to add even more use to them.

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    Hmmmm, I have another idea for the decorated pot, it is called trapped pot,
    Well, the idea is, if you put a tnt item in the trapped pot then break the pot, then it will explode, like the end crystal if you hit it but in a suprise, also, you can put a mob egg in the pot and it will summon the specific mob egg that you put in the pot.
    And, another idea that you can silk touch the pot while it has an item/s. Like you can silk touch the trapped pot with a tnt.
    Lastly, The trapped pot only one tnt can be put.
    I wish this comment will be notice hehehe

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    i think we should be able to color and customize the pots more and i think there should be special treasures inside them in the trial chambers.

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    Decorated Pots could be a great way to sort and filter items. My idea is that if you put an item in the middle slot of the decorated pot recipe, that item won't get picked up by a hopper and can only be retrieved by breaking the pot. This would be a great way to lock the pot to only receive a certain item. For this to work, it would also be cool if decorated pots could absorb items from hoppers above that are not facing directly into it.

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    Hello team,

    Recently, you added decorated pots to Minecraft with the ability to fill them with a stack of items. It was a great idea, but considering the direction the upcoming update is taking, especially with the crafter (thank you so much), it seems like an update oriented towards Redstone. For this reason, I think that for the sake of logic, compactness, and performance improvement, decorated pots should automatically absorb items from the container above them without causing them to fall into the container below.

    WHY?

    • The logical part: The pot has a hole in its design at the top, so it makes sense that items should either fall into it or be absorbed without falling below, as it's already full.

    • The compact part: This would make item sorting much simpler and more compact.

    • Optimization and performance improvement: Currently, hoppers are a significant source of lag, so reducing their use in solo and server machines would be excellent news.

    PS: It is possible to modify my proposal by making only the items that pass over the pots fall into them, without having the pots absorb them from other containers.

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    Maybe the pots could be dye able.

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    We need a way to get items out of a decorated pot without breaking it. Maybe by using an empty hand.