Artisan Pottery
by sachschaden
Artisan Pottery adds clay pots that players craft, customize and place, along with new animals and structures for desert and badlands biomes.
What it does
Pots are made from potting clay shaped with a trimming turntable block, and their look can be customized before they are placed. Pigeons, hawks and brute versions of each join the game and are bred with crafted grains, while vultures appear in badlands and deserts and accept rotten flesh as a taming food. A right-click with a pigeon ring lets a player transition a hawk or pigeon into its brute form.
Several structures generate with the mod, including dovecotes and archaeology-style sites with custom loot and suspicious sand bundles. A resplendent torch is crafted and activated by a right click, and the Bagdad Battery stores energy charged by lightning during thunderstorms.
The mod is for NeoForge on 1.21.1 only and runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. It is published under All rights reserved, which means the author does not allow redistribution elsewhere under another name.
Key features
Customizable clay pots
Pots are crafted from potting clay on a trimming turntable and can be decorated in many ways before placement.
Desert and badlands animals
Vultures spawn in deserts and badlands and can be tamed with rotten flesh, joining the new bird population.
Breedable pigeons and hawks
Pigeons and hawks breed from crafted grains, and a right click with a pigeon ring turns them into brute variants.
Charged energy item
The Bagdad Battery collects energy from lightning during thunderstorms and releases it when used.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Ruins of the Past is a server-required mod with a custom license, published for 1.21.5 and across four loaders. Which Pot? is a client and server mod under All rights reserved, published for 1.21.8 only. Unearth is open source under the MIT License, a client and server mod for 1.21.1 like this one, but it does not add pots or birds.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artisan Pottery | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-08-29 |
| Ruins of the Past | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 | Server required, client optional | 2026-02-16 |
| Which Pot? | NeoForge | 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-08-08 |
| Unearth | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-11-28 |
Questions
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In the catalog
Artisan Pottery is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,201 Decoration mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This mod adds a variety of new features related to the archeology update. Pots can now be customized how ever you want, there are new animals roaming the deserts and badlands and new structures to uncover. Do not change and upload the mod, dont distribute it elsewhere under your own namea
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/artisan-pottery
- Owner
- sachschaden
- Published
- 2025-08-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-08-29
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15