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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[[Pottery jar]]*:''' You can make food with a Pottery Bowljars are used to store water, you need which can be drunk to add things into your bowl and then put it into a [[Campfire]]reduce thirst, but is also used to improve various other items produced by [[Forgepottery]] or and [[Stone Ovenblacksmithing]]. For more detail see [[Hot-food_cooking|Cooking]]Flasks can also carry water, but far less, which is why jars are almost exclusively used for the task''

==* [[Pottery Jar==flask]]*:''Pottery flasks can be used to store small items. They can store water, but jars store much more. They are best for storing small, unrelated items you may carry a lot of such as different coins''

===Making===

# Unless you have Clay [[clay]] in your Inventory [[inventory]] you will need to locate a Source source of it.## Clay is found on clay tiles, then [[Claydigging|dig]], then dig that tile to add clay into your inventory to use.# Unless ## If you have a Log or Wood Scraps in your inventory low Digging Skill, you cannot dig on slopes. If this effects you you will need to chop down should find a tree and cut it into logs. Activate your Carving Knifeflat source of clay, Take a Log or Wood Scrap drop Dirt on the lower corners to raise them up and Rightreduce slope. (''See the [[Digging -click, Create > Miscellaneous > KindlingSimplified|Digging Tutorial]] for more info'')# 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 > Arm (right or left) arm > Handhand.# With your Hand hand active, right click the Clayclay, Create > Containers > Pottery Jar([[#Items covered in this tutorial|select]] which container you want to make).## If you want to improve the quality of your Jar [[:Category:Pottery items|clay item]] now is the time. Examining it (Right right click, Examine) will tell you the current Quality[[quality]], Damage [[damage]] and what items are required to improve it, if . If you activate those items , right clicking your bowl clay item will give you an Improve option. If you fail to improve it you will damage it, damaged .### IMPORTANT - You can no improve the clay item after they are turned into pottery items must be repaired (Right click, Repair) . You should Improve it before you can attempt 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 improve themfuel 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.# Right click, Open open your Forge forge, oven or Campfirecampfire. Drag the clay Jar item from your inventory into the Campfire or Forgeit.## You 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.# 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 hold * '''Opening / Closing:''' In order to open your jar to see how much it contains click the '+' symbol next to it, the items will appear below the jar and the symbol will become a '-'. In order to close it, click the '-', items within the jar will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+' * '''Drinking:''' If your Jar contains water, Open your Jar, On the water ''Right click > Drink''. The weight of the water will be reduced and your thirst will be reduced. * '''Improving:''' If an item requires water to be improved, Open a full Jar, On the water ''Right click > Activate'', Then on the item in question, right click and there should be an ''improve'' option. ==Pottery Flasks==

''Pottery Flasks can be used There are some uses to store small itemsclay (i. They can store water, but Jars store much moree. They are best for storing small, unrelated not baked and turned into pottery) items you may carry a lot of such as different coins'':

* '''1>Removing:''' Unless you have Clay in your Inventory To remove an item from a container, open it, select the item you will need wish to locate a Source move and drag it outside of [[Clay]], then dig that tile to add clay it into the rest of your inventory to use.

* '''2>Opening / Closing:''' Unless you have In order to open a Log or Wood Scraps in your inventory you will need container to see how much it contains click the '+' symbol next to chop down a tree and cut it into logs. Activate your Carving Knife, Take the items will appear below it and the symbol will become a Log or Wood Scrap and Right'-'. In order to close it, clickthe '-', Create > Miscellaneous > Kindlingitems within it will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+'.

* '''3>Filling:''' In Walk up to a water source as though to drink. Activate your inventory you will have container, then on a Body iconwater tile right click and select Fill. By clicking the '+' symbols you Your container now contains as much water as it can hold.*: You can expand fill it out to see the various partswith any other liquids, such as [[lye]] and [[dye]]. It can only contain one type of liquid. If it has e.g. [[quality|QL]]9 lye in it with room for more, you may only add lye on it, and it will need mix with the lye already present - that means the QL is averaged. It can be used to activate either your left or right handmix dye colors (e.g. mix red and white dye to create pink). Body > Arm > Hand

* '''4>Drinking:''' With If your Hand activejar contains water, right Open your jar, On the water ''Right click the Clay, Create > Containers > Pottery Flask* If you want to improve the quality Drink''. The weight of your Flask now is the time. Examining it (Right click, Examine) water will tell you the current Quality, Damage be reduced and what items are required to improve it, if you activate those items right clicking your Flask thirst will give you an Improve optionbe reduced. 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

* '''5>Improving:''' Once you have a complete Clay Flask you will need access If an item requires water to be improved, find the water inside a Forge or you will need to make a Campfirecontainer and activate it. In either case make sure you have Logs or some other flammable material Then on the item in your inventory such as Peat or Tar* If you have a Forge, activate your 'Steel and Flint'question, 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 there should be an ''Improve'Steel and Flint', right click your kindling, Create > Container > Campfireoption. This will consume your kindling, you will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out

Once clay items are baked, they [[decay]] slower, but can'''7>''' Open the Forge t be improved or Campfire againrepaired anymore. If you see a Pottery Flask instead of a Clay Flask In addition to all the process is completeabove uses, otherwise you pottery items can Right click, Examine the clay bowl also be used to see how hot it is. Clay items need to get up to 'Glowing Hot' before they are finished.:

* '''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.