Pottery shards are items that can be found in Minecrafts 1.20 Trails & Tales update, and they are used primarily to create decorated pots. To create a decorated pot, players need to combine four pottery shards on a crafting table in a specific arrangement. The design of the decorated pot depends on the pottery shards used, and there are 20 different variants available. Players can also combine different pottery shards to create pots with unique designs. Pottery shards can be found by using the brush tool on suspicious sand or suspicious gravel blocks in and around various structures. Pottery shards can also be used in a decorative context by being placed in an item frame.