OK I've accepted I'm not going to fully finish this BUT DO YOU SEE MY VISION??
The Kiln would be another furnace type block (because we need one of those ofc smh) but you could smelt a single pot in a regular furnace.
You would first dye a pot with dye in a crafting table, which would color the terracotta. If you then chose to smelt the pot, it would form colorful glazed terracotta patterns around the pot. I imagine this could be overlayed with the sherd patterns, but maybe not.
I just feel like glazing is the next logical step with terracotta pots!








