CraftQuiverMinecraft crafting guide
How to craft Clay in Minecraft
To craft a clay in Minecraft, place 4× Clay Ball in the exact pattern using either your inventory grid or a crafting table to craft 1 clay
Clay crafting recipe
Produces 1× Clay.
- This is a shaped recipe, meaning the items must be placed in this specific arrangement on the grid.
- Clay can be crafted directly in your inventory or in a crafting table.
About Clay
Clay is a soft, grey-blue material you collect as small balls, not whole blocks. It is mostly useful as a crafting ingredient. You can combine four clay balls into a clay block, which makes storage and building easier. Smelting a clay ball in a furnace gives you a brick, one of the basic materials for brick blocks and flower pots.
How to get Clay
Clay is not crafted. You get it by breaking clay blocks, which drop four clay balls each. Clay blocks usually generate in shallow water in rivers, swamps, and lush caves. You can also find clay balls in some village mason chests. If you want a lot, a riverbed dig is the simplest way, and you can turn the balls back into blocks later.
Materials needed
Ingredient amounts for one craft, producing 1× Clay.
| Material | Per craft | Accepted items |
|---|---|---|
| Clay Ball | 4 | Exact item |
Quantity table
Crafts are rounded up when a recipe produces more than one item.
| Wanted | Crafts | Produced | Clay Ball |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 16 | 16 | 16 | 64 |
| 32 | 32 | 32 | 128 |
| 64 | 64 | 64 | 256 |
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