How to make clay in minecraft

In this quick how-to tutorial, we'll show you where to find clay in Minecraft. 

Minecraft clay is an item that can be crafted to make bricks or clay blocks.

How To Get Clay Video Tutorial

Available Platforms

Required To Get Clay

How To Get Clay In Minecraft

1. Find A Clay Block

First, we need to find a block of clay to mine. You can find clay blocks in water.

2. Select A Shovel

The fastest way to mine clay is with a shovel. Any shovel will work, including the diamond shovel, golden shovel, iron shovel, stone shovel, or wooden shovel.

In our example, we are using the diamond shovel.

3. Mine The Clay Block

You can mine the clay blocks using the following game controls:

• Java Edition (PC/Mac), Windows 10 Edition, Education Edition: left click on the clay block and hold
• Pocket Edition (PE): tap on the clay block and hold
• Xbox 360, Xbox One: press the RT button and hold
• PS3, PS4: press the R2 button and hold
• Wii U, Nintendo Switch: press the ZR button and hold

Keep breaking the block until the clay appears.

4. Pick Up The Clay

Now, pick up the clay. Once picked up, you should see clay in your Hotbar.

You now have clay! You can use clay balls to make bricks in a furnace or you can craft them back to clay blocks.

Minecraft Clay Command

You can also use a Give Command to make clay balls in Minecraft. The clay ball command is available in the following editions:

• Java Edition
• Pocket Edition
• Xbox One
• Nintendo Switch
• Windows 10 Edition
• Education Edition

To run the clay ball command in Minecraft, open your chat window and type in the command below that pertains to your version of Minecraft:

Java Edition 1.13 and higher

/give @p clay_ball 1

PE, Xbox One, Switch, Win 10, Education Edition

/give @p clay_ball 1 0

More Basic Items

Clay has a multitude of uses in Minecraft. First, let’s look at what you can do with clay balls. If you are interested in building out of bricks you can cook clay balls in a furnace to make bricks. These bricks do not do much on their own, but with enough bricks you can unlock certain recipes.

With 4 bricks you can make a brick block by arranging bricks in a 2x2 form in a crafting menu.

If you are looking for a way to spruce up the interior of a home or a build, you can build a flower pot with 3 bricks. Place the bricks in a “V” shape to make a flower pot. You can plant saplings, cacti, flowers, and tall grass in these flower pots to add a little life and dimension to your builds.

Of course, if you are not interested in the availability of bricks, you can also use 4 clay balls to make a clay block. Place 4 clay balls in a 2x2 arrangement in your crafting menu to make a clay block. This will function identically to a regular clay block, but you have some crafting recipes open to you as well.

Cooking a clay block will provide you with terracotta. You can color groups of 8 terracotta with any available dyes to stain the terracotta.

While the terracotta looks great on its own, or in its stained variety, you can also cook dyed terracotta to make glazed terracotta.

It is worth noting that using a fortune enchanted tool to harvest clay does not actually get more clay balls to drop. While it fits within the parameters of fortune, it does not allow for extra clay balls to drop. Conversely, you can still use silk touch tools to obtain a block of clay to skip the step of turning clay balls into clay blocks.

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft a block of clay with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, blocks of clay are one of the many building blocks that you can make.

Let's explore how to make a block of clay.

Supported Platforms

A block of clay is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

* The version that it was added or removed, if applicable.
NOTE: Pocket Edition (PE), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 10 Edition are now called Bedrock Edition. We will continue to show them individually for version history.

Where to find a Block of Clay in Creative Mode

Required Materials to make a Block of Clay

In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to craft a block of clay:

How to craft a Block of Clay in Survival Mode

1. Open the Crafting Menu

First, open your crafting table so that you have the 3x3 crafting grid that looks like this:

2. Add Items to make a Block of Clay

In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3x3 crafting grid. To make a block of clay, place 4 clay in the 3x3 crafting grid.

When making a block of clay, it is important that the clay are placed in the exact pattern as the image below. In the first row, there should be 1 clay in the first box and 1 clay in the second box (the third box should be empty). In the second row, there should be 1 clay in the first box and 1 clay in the second box (the third box should be empty). This is the Minecraft crafting recipe for a block of clay.

Now that you have filled the crafting area with the correct pattern, the block of clay will appear in the box to the right.

3. Move the Block of Clay to Inventory

Once you have crafted a block of clay, you need to move the new item to your inventory.

Congratulations, you have made a block of clay in Minecraft!

Item ID and Name

Give Command for Block of Clay

Things to Make with Blocks of Clay

You can use blocks of clay to make items in Minecraft such as:

Other Clay Activities

There are other clay activities in Minecraft such as: