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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 bowls can be used to cook, but they can also be used for a limited form of personal storage; those with [[Pottery Jarcooking]] skill often use them to store and seperate various foodstuffs grown from [[farming]]* and various herbs found from [[Pottery Flaskforaging]]''

==* [[Pottery Bowl==jar]]*:''Pottery Bowls jars are used to store water, which can be used drunk to cookreduce thirst, but they can is also be used for a limited form of personal storage; those with [[cooking]] skill often use them to store and seperate improve various foodstuffs grown from other items produced by [[farmingpottery]] and various herbs found from [[foragingblacksmithing]]. Flasks can also carry water, but far less, which is why jars are almost exclusively used for the task''

===UsingMaking ===

* # 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'')# In your inventory you will have a Body icon. By clicking the '+'Addingsymbols 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' To ').# Once you have a finished clay item you will need fire. You may use a forge, an oven or you will need to make a campfire. In either case you will need to fuel it shortly with logs or some other flammable material in your inventory such as peat or tar. If the fire goes out the process will not be completed## If you have a forge or oven, 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 Bowlcampfire, select find the item 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 want will need to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out.# Right click, open your forge, oven or campfire. Drag the clay item from your inventory into it.## You will now have to wait. Depending on the quality of the forge, oven 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 oven which in turn is faster than a campfire. Go do something else, like [[botanizing]] and drag [[foraging]] tiles for food.# Open the forge, oven or campfire again. If you see a pottery item instead of a clay item the process is complete, otherwise you can examine the clay bowl to see how hot it over over Bowlis. Clay items need to be glowing from heat before they are finished.

* '''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'' ===MakingUsing===

# 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 Jar## If you want to improve the quality of your Jar 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 Jar 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 Jar 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 Jar instead of a Clay Jar the process is complete, otherwise you can Right click, Examine the Clay Jar to see how hot it is. ==== Clay items need to get up to 'Glowing Hot' before they are finished.====

* '''FillingAdding:''' Walk up To add to a water source as though container, select the item you want to drink. ''Right click > Activate'' add from your Clay Jar, then on inventory and drag it over over the water, ''Right click > Fill''container. Your Jar now contains as much water as it can hold

* '''Opening / ClosingRemoving:''' In order to To remove an item from a container, open your jar to see how much it contains click , select the '+' symbol next item you wish to move and drag it outside of it, into the items will appear below the jar and the symbol will become a '-'rest of your inventory. In order to close it, click the '-', items within the jar will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+'

* '''DrinkingOpening / Closing:''' If your Jar In order to open a container to see how much it contains waterclick the '+' symbol next to it, Open your Jar, On the water items will appear below it and the symbol will become a '-'Right . In order to close it, click > Drinkthe '-'. The weight of the water , items within it will be reduced hidden and your thirst the symbol will be reducedbecome a '+'.

* '''ImprovingFilling:''' If an item requires Walk up to a water source as though to be improveddrink. Activate your container, Open then on a full Jar, On the water ''Right tile right click > Activate''and select Fill. Your container now contains as much water as it can hold.*: You can fill it with 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, Then you may only add lye on the item in questionit, right click and there should it will mix with the lye already present - that means the QL is averaged. It can be an ''improve'' optionused to mix dye colors (e.g. mix red and white dye to create pink).

* ''Pottery Flasks can 'Improving:''' If an item requires water to be used to store small items. They can store improved, find the water, but Jars store much moreinside a container and activate it. They are best for storing smallThen on the item in question, unrelated items you may carry a lot of such as different coinsright click and there should be an ''Improve''option.

===Making= Pottery items ====

# Unless you have Clay in your Inventory you will need to locate a Source of Once clay items are baked, they [[Claydecay]]slower, 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 but can'+' symbols you can expand it out to see the various parts, you will need to activate either your left t be improved or right hand. Body > Arm > Hand# 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 can attempt to improve them# Once you have a complete Clay Flask you will need access to a Forge or you will need to make a Campfireanymore. 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 addition to add fuel to it shortly or it will burn out## If you choose to make a Campfire, find all the tile you wish to make it onabove uses, 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 Flask 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 pottery items can also 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 Flask instead of a Clay Flask 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 used 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.