Orange Glazed Terracotta — Minecraft block

Overview

Orange Glazed Terracotta is one of the 16 variants of White Glazed Terracotta: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the White Glazed Terracotta page.

Orange Glazed Terracotta counts as a coloured block in Minecraft 1.21.4. At a hardness of 1.4 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down. It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing.

Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A blast resistance of 1.4 means a single creeper will clear it away. It stacks to 64.

A furnace turns Orange Terracotta into it. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the orange set

How long it takes to break

Hardness 1.4 puts Orange Glazed Terracotta at 7 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.25 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron manages 0.35 seconds and diamond 0.3, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7 s	7 s	7 s
Wooden	1.1 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.55 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.35 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.1 s	0.1 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Orange Glazed Terracotta is 1.4, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe