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Pottery involves the creation of items from clay, which are then hardened by being baked within a fire. Potter's Jars can be used to carry water, and pottery bowls can be used to cook food. For better food you will need a metal [[Frying Pan]] === Trained Skills skills ===

=== Assumed Knowledge knowledge ===

* [[Woodcutting(tutorial)|Woodcutting Tutorial]]* [[Digging|Digging Tutorial]] 

==== Raw Materials materials ====''Raw Materials materials are consumed in the process of creating the item''

* [[Log]] OR , [[Peatpeat]] OR [[Tartar]]

==== Neccesary Tools Necessary tools ====

''Neccesary Necessary tools that are required to make the item''* [[Campfire]], [[oven]] OR [[Forgeforge]]* [[steel_and_flint|Steel and Flintflint]]

* [[wooden_clay_shaper|Wooden Clay Shaperclay shaper]]* [[wooden_spatula|Wooden Spatulawooden spatula]]* [[item:water|Water]](In Pottery Jarpottery jar)* [[Clay]]

* [[Pottery Bowlbowl]]* [[Pottery Jar]]* [[Pottery Flask]] ==Pottery Bowl==: ''Pottery Bowls bowls can be used to cook, but they can also be used for a limited form of personal storage; those with [[cooking]] skill often use them to store and seperate various foodstuffs grown from [[farming]] and various herbs found from [[foraging]]'' ===Making=== # Unless you have Clay in your Inventory you will need to locate a Source of [[Clay]], then dig that tile to add clay into your inventory to use.# Unless you have a Log or Wood Scraps in your inventory you will need to chop down a tree and cut it into logs. Activate your Carving Knife, Take a Log or Wood Scrap and Right-click, Create > Miscellaneous > Kindling# In your inventory you will have a Body icon. By clicking the '+' symbols you can expand it out to see the various parts, you will need to activate either your left or right hand. Body > Arm > Hand# With your Hand active, right click the Clay, Create > Containers > Pottery Bowl## If you want to improve the quality of your Bowl now is the time. Examining it (Right click, Examine) will tell you the current Quality, Damage and what items are required to improve it, if you activate those items right clicking your bowl will give you an Improve option. If you fail to improve it you will damage it, damaged items must be repaired (Right click, Repair) before you can attempt to improve them# Once you have a complete Clay Bowl you will need access to a Forge or you will need to make a Campfire. In either case make sure you have Logs or some other flammable material in your inventory such as Peat or Tar## If you have a Forge, activate your 'Steel and Flint', right click the forge and Light it. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out## If you choose to make a Campfire, find the tile you wish to make it on, Activate your 'Steel and Flint', right click your kindling, Create > Container > Campfire. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out# Right click, Open your Forge or Campfire. Drag the clay Bowl from your inventory into the Campfire or Forge## You will now have to wait. Depending on the quality of the Forge or Campfire as well as how brightly it burns (Both can be seen by Right click, Examine) this may take a longer or shorter period of time. ''Generally'' a forge is faster than a Campfire.# Open the Forge or Campfire again. If you see a Pottery Bowl instead of a Clay Bowl the process is complete, otherwise you can Right click, Examine the clay bowl to see how hot it is. Clay items need to get up to 'Glowing Hot' before they are finished. ===Using=== * '''Adding:''' To add to a Bowl, select the item you want to add and drag it over over Bowl. * '''Removing:''' To remove an item from your bowl, Open your Bowl, select the item you wish to move and drag it outside of the bowl into the rest of your inventory. * '''Opening / Closing:''' In order to open your Bowl to see how much it contains click the '+' symbol next to it, the items will appear below the Bowl and the symbol will become a '-'. In order to close it, click the '-', items within the Bowl will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+' * '''Cooking:''' You can make food with a Pottery Bowl, you need to add things into your bowl and then put it into a [[Campfire]], [[Forge]] or [[Stone Oven]]. For more detail see [[Hot-food_cooking|Cooking]] ==Pottery Jar== ''Pottery Jars are used to store Water, which can be drunk to reduce thirst, but is also used to improve various other items produced by [[Pottery]] and [[Blacksmithing]]. Flasks can also carry water, but far less, which is why Jars are almost exclusively used for the task'' ===Making===

* [[Pottery jar]]*:'''1>''' Unless you have Clay in your Inventory you will need Pottery jars are used to store water, which can be drunk to reduce thirst, but is also used to locate a Source of improve various other items produced by [[Claypottery]]and [[blacksmithing]]. Flasks can also carry water, then dig that tile to add clay into your inventory to use.but far less, which is why jars are almost exclusively used for the task''

* [[Pottery flask]]*:'''2>''' Unless you have a Log or Wood Scraps in your inventory you will need Pottery flasks can be used to chop down a tree and cut it into logsstore small items. They can store water, but jars store much more. Activate your Carving KnifeThey are best for storing small, Take unrelated items you may carry a Log or Wood Scrap and Right-click, Create > Miscellaneous > Kindlinglot of such as different coins''

# Unless you have [[clay]] in your [[inventory]] you will need to locate a source of it.## Clay is found on clay tiles, then [[digging|dig]] that tile to add clay into your inventory to use.### If you have a low Digging Skill, you cannot dig on slopes. If this effects you you should find a flat source of clay, or drop Dirt on the lower corners to raise them up and reduce slope. (''See the [[Digging - Simplified|Digging Tutorial]] for more info''5)# In your inventory you will have a Body icon. By clicking the '+' symbols you can expand it out to see the various parts, you will need to activate either your left or right hand by double-clicking on Body > (right or left) arm > hand.# With your hand active, right click the clay, Create >Containers > ([[#Items covered in this tutorial|select]] which container you want to make).## If you want to improve the quality of your [[:Category:Pottery items|clay item]] now is the time. Examining it (right click, Examine) will tell you the current [[quality]], [[damage]] and what items are required to improve it. If you activate those items, right clicking your clay item will give you an Improve option. If you fail to improve it you will damage it.### IMPORTANT - You can no improve the clay item after they are turned into pottery items. You should Improve it before you make the pottery item.# Unless you have a [[kindling]] in your inventory you will need to make it. You will also need [[log]]s, [[peat]] or [[tar]] to fuel the fire once you have started it.## Create Kindling from logs with a Carving knife. (''See the [[woodcutting(tutorial)|Woodcutting Tutorial]] for more info' ').# Once you have a complete Clay Jar finished clay item you will need access to fire. You may use a Forge forge, an oven or you will need to make a Campfirecampfire. In either case make sure you have Logs will need to fuel it shortly with logs or some other flammable material in your inventory such as Peat peat or Tartar. If the fire goes out the process will not be completed* ## If you have a Forgeforge or oven, activate your 'Steel steel and Flint'flint, right click the forge and Light light it. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out.* ## If you choose to make a Campfirecampfire, find the tile you wish to make it on, Activate activate your 'Steel steel and Flint'flint, right click your kindling, Create > Container > Campfire. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out. '''6>''' # Right click, Open open your Forge forge, oven or Campfirecampfire. Drag the clay Jar item from your inventory into the Campfire or Forgeit.* ## You may will now have to wait. Depending on the quality of the Forge forge, oven or Campfire campfire as well as how brightly it burns (Both both can be seen by Right right click, Examine) this may take a longer or shorter period of time. ''Generally'' a forge is faster than a Campfireoven which in turn is faster than a campfire. Go do something else, like [[botanizing]] and [[foraging]] tiles for food. '''7>''' # Open the Forge forge, oven or Campfire campfire again. If you see a Pottery Jar pottery item instead of a Clay Jar clay item the process is complete, otherwise you can Right click, Examine examine the Clay Jar clay bowl to see how hot it is. Clay items need to get up to 'Glowing Hot' be glowing from heat before they are finished.

* '''Filling:''' Walk up to a water source as though to drink. ''Right click > Activate'' your ==== Clay Jar, then on the water, ''Right click > Fill''. Your Jar now contains as much water as it can holditems ====

* '''Opening / Closing:''' In order There are some uses to open your jar to see how much it contains click the '+' symbol next to it, the items will appear below the jar clay (i.e. not baked and the symbol will become a '-'. In order to close it, click the '-', turned into pottery) items within the jar will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+':

* '''DrinkingAdding:''' If your Jar contains waterTo add to a container, Open select the item you want to add from your Jar, On inventory and drag it over over the water ''Right click > Drink''. The weight of the water will be reduced and your thirst will be reducedcontainer.

* '''ImprovingRemoving:''' If To remove an item requires water to be improved, Open from a full Jarcontainer, On the water ''Right click > Activate''open it, Then on select the item in question, right click you wish to move and there should be an ''improve'' optiondrag it outside of it into the rest of your inventory.

* ''Pottery Flasks 'Filling:''' Walk up to a water source as though to drink. Activate your container, then on a water tile right click and select Fill. Your container now contains as much water as it can be used to store small itemshold. They *: You can store waterfill it with any other liquids, but Jars store much moresuch as [[lye]] and [[dye]]. It can only contain one type of liquid. If it has e.g. They are best [[quality|QL]]9 lye in it with room for storing smallmore, unrelated items you may carry a lot of such as different coins''only add lye on it, and it will mix with the lye already present - that means the QL is averaged. It can be used to mix dye colors (e.g. mix red and white dye to create pink).

* '''1>Improving:''' Unless you have Clay in your Inventory you will need If an item requires water to locate be improved, find the water inside a Source of [[Clay]]container and activate it. Then on the item in question, then dig that tile to add clay into your inventory to useright click and there should be an ''Improve'' option.

Once clay items are baked, they [[decay]] slower, but can'''3>''' t be improved or repaired anymore. In your inventory you will have a Body icon. By clicking the '+' symbols you can expand it out addition to see all the various partsabove uses, you will need pottery items can also be used to activate either your left or right hand. Body > Arm > Hand:

* '''4>Cooking:''' With your Hand active, right click the Clay, Create > Containers > Pottery Flask* If you want to improve the quality of your Flask now is the time. Examining it (Right click, Examine) will tell you the current Quality, Damage and what items are required to improve it, if you activate those items right clicking your Flask will give you an Improve option. If you fail to improve it you will damage it, damaged items must be repaired (Right click, Repair) before you You can attempt to improve them '''5>''' Once you have a complete Clay Flask you will need access to a Forge or you will need to make hot food with a Campfirepottery bowl. In either case make sure you have Logs or some other flammable material in Add things into your inventory such as Peat or Tar* If you have a Forge, activate your 'Steel bowl and Flint', right click the forge and Light then put it. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out* If you choose to make into a Campfire, find the tile you wish to make it on, Activate your 'Steel and Flint', right click your kindling, Create > Container > Campfire. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out '''6>''' Right click, Open your Forge or Campfire. Drag the Clay Flask from your inventory into the Campfire or Forge* You may now have to wait. Depending on the quality of the Forge or Campfire as well as how brightly it burns (Both can be seen by Right clickoven, Examine) this may take a longer or shorter period of time. ''Generally'' a forge is faster than a Campfire '''7>''' Open the Forge or Campfire againcampfire. If you see a Pottery Flask instead of a Clay Flask the process is complete, otherwise you can Right click, Examine the clay bowl to For more detail see how [[hot it is. Clay items need to get up to 'Glowing Hot' before they are finishedfood cooking]]. ===Using===

* '''AddingCreating a compass:''' To add to You can create a Flask[[compass]] with a pottery jar, select the item you want to add and drag it over over Bowl.* '''Removing:''' To remove an item from your Flask, Open your Flask, select the item you wish to move a [[needle]] and drag it outside of the Flask into the rest of your inventory[[olive oil]].* '''Opening / Closing:''' In order to open your Flask to see how much it contains click the '+' symbol next to it, the items will appear below the Flask and the symbol will become a '-'See [[compass]] for details. In order to close it, click the '-', items within the Flask will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+'

== Hints & Tips:==

* Patience is a virtue. Clay items must be heated up a great deal, and unless you have a high quality Forge this will take some time... remember to keep it fuelled fueled or the fire will go out and you will have to start again.

* When you attempt an item at a low skill level you will often fail and have to start again, sometimes you will partially suceed succeed and create an 'Unfinished item', where you have a choice... if you have the tools neccesary necessary to complete the item, or the time and resources to create them you can use those items to complete the unfinished item, if you can't or won't then your best bet is just to try over again. Completing unfinished items is not a waste of time though, items finally produced this way are of higher quality than items produced immediately

* If you want a Pottery pottery item of a specific quality you will need to improve it to that quality while it is still a Clay clay item instead of a pottery one. This means you should improve it before you put it into the fire.