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How to Craft Flower Pot in Minecraft

Flower Pot in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Holding flowers, saplings, cacti, mushrooms and other small plants. Minecraft has used the name Flower Pot since 1.4.2.

On a Crafting Table, 3 Bricks turns into a Flower Pot. From the top down: two Bricks in the left and right columns; then a Brick in the middle column. One go makes 1 Flower Pot.

Flower Pot Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Flower Pot is minecraft:flower_pot. In commands the namespace may be left off, so flower_pot works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p flower_pot
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p flower_pot 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve flower_pot 1

Cheats have to be on for Flower Pot to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Flower Pots hold small plants for decoration. Right-click with a plant to place it in the pot. Flower Pot uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Flower Pot since 1.4.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with brick (smelt clay balls).

The Stack Arithmetic

3 bricks for 1 flower pot scales to 21 out of a 64 stack. Left over: just 1 brick.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
BrickBrickBrick3xSmelt clay balls

To make Flower Pot you will gather 3x Brick (smelt clay balls), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

3 Clay Ball makes 3 Brick, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 3 Clay Ball.

  1. 1
    Clay BallClay Ball3BrickBrick3BrickFurnace, repeat 3x
  2. 2
    Flower PotFlower PotFlower Potthis page

Gather this first

Clay BallClay Ball3Clay Ball

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    BrickBrick3x Brick

  2. 2

    Flower Pot

Minecraft crafting recipe for Flower Pot: 3 x Brick in a crafting table, making 1 Flower Pot.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 3x Brick. Start with the Brick: smelt clay balls.

Uses for Flower Pot

  • Holding flowers, saplings, cacti, mushrooms and other small plants

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Flower Pot on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Flower Pot in Minecraft?
3 Bricks at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Flower Pot. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Flower Pot.
What do you need to make a Flower Pot from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Flower Pot costs 3 Clay Balls. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.
Can you craft a Flower Pot without a crafting table?
Not this one: a Flower Pot will not fit the inventory grid. It is laid out as three Bricks, and that takes 3 columns, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Flower Pot?
The parts of a Flower Pot do not all come from one place. Brick: smelt clay balls.
How many Flower Pots do you get from one craft?
The Flower Pot recipe makes one Flower Pot per craft.
What is the item ID for Flower Pot in Minecraft?
Flower Pot is registered as minecraft:flower_pot. Commands accept the short form flower_pot as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Flower Pot?
The command for Flower Pot is /give @p flower_pot. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p flower_pot 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Flower Pot recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Flower Pot recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Flower Pot from 3 Bricks at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Flower Pot?
Minecraft 1.4.2 is the oldest release that calls the flower pot by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
3 Bricks in, 1 Flower Pot out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.4.2 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Flower Pot per craft against the stack size.

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