Red Glazed Terracotta — Minecraft block

Overview

Red 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.

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Red Glazed Terracotta is a coloured block. 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 Red Terracotta into it. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the red set

How long it takes to break

Hardness 1.4 puts Red 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.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 2.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* 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

With 1.4 blast resistance Red Glazed Terracotta goes down to any nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard 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