Flower Pot

A flower pot is a decorative block that can contain flowers, bamboo, saplings, cacti, mushrooms, fungi, and other reasonably small plants.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Flower pots naturally generate in witch huts where they contain a red mushroom, the basement of igloos where they contain a cactus, and in woodland mansions, where they contain birch saplings, dark oak saplings, dandelions, poppies, blue orchids, alliums, azure bluets, red and white tulips, and oxeye daisies.

Flower pots containing a dandelion can be found in some plains and savanna village houses. Flower pots containing a cactus or a dead bush can be found in some desert village houses. Flower pots containing a spruce sapling can be found in taiga village mason houses. Flower pots containing a poppy can be found in taiga village churches.

Breaking

Flower pots can be mined instantly using any tool or without a tool.

A flower pot drops itself as an item (any plant or mushroom in it separately) when pushed by a piston or washed away with water.

Lava can flow into the space of a flower pot, destroying it.

Chest loot

Crafting

Usage

A flower pot can be used to hold mushrooms, fungi, and various plants. Plants that can be placed in a pot include any one block high flowers, saplings, ferns, dead bushes, cacti, bamboo, azaleas, mangrove propagule, and roots.

Plants can be removed by using the interact button.

In Java Edition, flower pots can be placed on any block, or over air.[1]

In Bedrock Edition, they must be placed on top of a full-block top surface, or the top of a fence, stone wall, or hopper. They cannot be placed on slabs and stairs unless those blocks are upside-down. Pots may also be placed on an upward facing trapdoor. If the trapdoor is opened, the pot will break.

Flower pots are 3⁄8 of a block high and can be stepped on. It is not possible to walk from the top of a flower pot onto a full sized block without jumping. It is possible to jump from a flower pot onto a fence.

The plant or fungus can be removed from the flower pot by pressing the use control. This places the item directly back into the player’s inventory.[2]

They can be used to display cacti and wither roses without inheriting their damaging properties.[3][4]

Potted warped fungus can be used to repel hoglins.

Sounds

Data values

ID

Block states

In Bedrock Edition, flower pots use the following block states:

Block data

In Bedrock Edition, flower pot has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

History

August 16, 2012	Dinnerbone tweeted the first image of flower pots.
Java Edition
1.4.2	12w34a
At this point, plants inside of pots rendered much like they do outside of flower pots, not being subject to directional shading.
12w40a	A potted red mushroom can now be found on one window of a witch hut. This changed to an empty pot in a far later unknown version,[more information needed] but returned again afterward.[more information needed]
1.7.2	13w36a
Flower pots can no longer use data values because more than 15 plants can be potted, it now has a block entity instead.
13w37a	Added
13w43a
1.8	14w06a	Many more blocks (almost all full cubes) placed into a flower pot by modifying the block entity now render, if in somewhat buggy fashion, as the texture is in a cross shape. Click show to display all of the applicable blocks. Main article: Flower Pot/1.8 development gallery/14w06a [edit]
14w06b	Further blocks now render in flower pots than did in the previous snapshot. Click show to display all of the applicable blocks. Main article: Flower Pot/1.8 development gallery/14w06b [edit]
14w07a
14w17a
Invalid blocks no longer render inside flower pots. This also includes cobweb and grass.
14w25a
1.9	15w43a	A potted cactus can now be found on a table in igloo basements.
1.11	16w32a	The block entity ID of flower pots has been changed from
16w39a	Potted plants can now be removed from flower pots by pressing use.
Flower pots now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13	17w47a	The different block states for the
Flower pots are no longer block entities.
Prior to The Flattening, this block’s numeral ID was 140, and the item’s was 390.
1.14	18w43a
18w44a
18w47b
18w49a	Flower pots can now be found in chests in village mason houses.
19w11a	Flower pots have become renewable, as mason villagers now sell bricks.
1.16	20w06a	The model of flower pots has been fixed and has been given an underside, which has changed the model from
20w09a
The model for potted plants has been fixed, so the bottom face now renders,[7] which has changed the model from
20w11a
Pre-release 3
1.16.2	20w28a
1.17	Pre-release 1
1.19	22w11a
22w18a
Pre-release 1
1.20 (Experimental)	23w07a
Upcoming Java Edition
1.20	23w13a
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1	build 1
v0.14.0	build 1	Flower pots now generate in witch huts.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0	alpha 0.17.0.1	Flower pots now generate in igloo basements.
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.0	Flower pots now generate naturally in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0	beta 1.8.0.8
1.9.0	beta 1.9.0.0	File:Potted Cornflower BE.png File:Potted Lily of the Valley BE.png Cornflower and lily of the valley can now be placed in flower pots.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	File:Flower Pot BE.png File:Potted Dandelion BE.png File:Potted Poppy BE.png File:Potted Allium BE.png File:Potted Azure Bluet BE.png File:Potted Oxeye Daisy BE.png File:Potted Blue Orchid BE.png File:Potted Red Tulip BE.png File:Potted Orange Tulip BE.png File:Potted White Tulip BE.png File:Potted Pink Tulip BE.png File:Potted Red Mushroom BE.png File:Potted Brown Mushroom BE.png File:Potted Oak Sapling BE.png File:Potted Birch Sapling BE.png File:Potted Spruce Sapling BE.png File:Potted Jungle Sapling BE.png File:Potted Acacia Sapling BE.png File:Potted Dark Oak Sapling BE.png
Flower pots now generate in the new villages.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Flower pots can now be found in village mason chests.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.9	File:Potted Wither Rose BE.png Wither roses can now be placed in flower pots.
1.16.0	beta 1.15.0.51	Potted plants can now be removed from flower pots by pressing use.
beta 1.16.0.51	File:Potted Crimson Fungus BE1.png File:Potted Warped Fungus BE1.png File:Potted Crimson Roots BE1.png File:Potted Warped Roots BE1.png Crimson and warped fungi and crimson and warped roots can now be placed in flower pots.
1.17.10	beta 1.17.10.21
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1	1.0.1
1.90	File:Flower Pot BE.png File:Potted Dandelion BE.png File:Potted Poppy BE.png File:Potted Allium BE.png File:Potted Azure Bluet BE.png File:Potted Oxeye Daisy BE.png File:Potted Blue Orchid BE.png File:Potted Red Tulip BE.png File:Potted Orange Tulip BE.png File:Potted White Tulip BE.png File:Potted Pink Tulip BE.png File:Potted Red Mushroom BE.png File:Potted Brown Mushroom BE.png File:Potted Oak Sapling BE.png File:Potted Birch Sapling BE.png File:Potted Spruce Sapling BE.png File:Potted Jungle Sapling BE.png File:Potted Acacia Sapling BE.png File:Potted Dark Oak Sapling BE.png
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0

• The first image of flower pots, released by Dinnerbone.

• An 14w06a example of some of the blocks that can be placed inside of flower pots, and their rendering.

• The same arrangement as prior in 14w06b.

Flower pot “item”

Appearances

Java Edition
1.4.2	12w34a

Names

• 12w34a – 13w25b: [Has no defined name, rendering a minimum-length text box if highlighted]
• 13w25c – 14w21b: tile.flowerPot.name

When given using the /give command, it is announced as tile.flowerPot.name.

Gallery

Renders

Flowers

Saplings

Mushrooms

Roots and bushes

Other

Issues

Issues relating to “Flower Pot” are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• The flower pot is based on a suggestion from Reddit, like ender chests and item frames.[11]
• Flower pots break falling blocks.
• If a plant that has been named is put in a flower pot, the plant loses its name.
• The inside of the flower pot in Java uses the center 4×4 pixels of the dirt texture while Bedrock uses the center 6×6.

References

1. ↑ MC-127036 — resolved as “Works As Intended”.
2. ↑ MC-169496 — resolved as “Works As Intended”.
3. ↑ MC-2241 — resolved as “Works As Intended”.
4. ↑ MC-138024 — resolved as “Works As Intended”.
5. ↑ MC-47469
6. ↑ MC-129826
7. ↑ MC-170842
8. ↑ MC-173156
9. ↑ a b MC-251355
10. ↑ MC-230916
11. ↑ “My next task is going to be flower pots.” – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on Twitter, Error: Invalid time.