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== Summary ==
Pottery involves the creation of items from clay, which are then hardened by being baked within a fire. Jars and flasks can be used to carry water, and bowls can be used to cook food. For better food you will need a metal [[frying pan]].
=== Trained Skills skills ===
''Skills that are used and thus trained by this Tutorial''
* [[Pottery]]
=== Assumed Knowledge knowledge ===
''Information you are expected to know or have obtained from other tutorials''
* [[Woodcutting(tutorial)|Woodcutting Tutorial]]* [[Digging|Digging Tutorial]]
=== Items needed ===
==== Raw Materials materials ====''Raw Materials materials are consumed in the process of creating the item''
* [[Clay]]
* [[Kindling]]
* [[Log]], [[peat]] OR [[tar]]
==== Neccesary Tools Necessary tools ====
''Neccesary Necessary tools that are required to make the item''
* [[Campfire]], [[oven]] OR [[forge]]
* [[Steel and flint]]
''Useful tools help improve the quality of an item, or complete incomplete items''
* [[wooden_clay_shaper|Wooden Clay Shaperclay shaper]]* [[wooden_spatula|Wooden Spatulawooden spatula]]* [[item:water|Water]](In Pottery Jarpottery jar)* [[Clay]]
=== Items covered in this tutorial ===
* [[Pottery Bowlbowl]]*: ''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]]''
* [[Pottery Jarjar]]*:''Pottery Jars jars are used to store Waterwater, which can be drunk to reduce thirst, but is also used to improve various other items produced by [[Potterypottery]] and [[Blacksmithingblacksmithing]]. Flasks can also carry water, but far less, which is why Jars jars are almost exclusively used for the task''
* [[Pottery Flaskflask]]*:''Pottery Flasks flasks can be used to store small items. They can store water, but Jars jars store much more. They are best for storing small, unrelated items you may carry a lot of such as different coins''
== Creating pots ==
# 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 '+' 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|Logslog]]s, [[Peatpeat]] or [[Tartar]] to fuel the fire once you have started it.## Cut Create Kindling from logs with a [[tree]] down and chop it into logsCarving knife. Double-click to activate your (''See the [[carving knifewoodcutting(tutorial)|Woodcutting Tutorial]]or your [[axe]] and right-click a log or wood scrap and select Create > Miscellaneous > Kindlingfor more info'').# 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 make sure you have 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 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.
* '''Adding:''' To add to a container, select the item you want to add from your inventory and drag it over over the container.
* '''Removing:''' To remove an item from a containtercontainer, open it, select the item you wish to move and drag it outside of it into the rest of your inventory.
* '''Opening / Closing:''' In order to open a container to see how much it contains click the '+' symbol next to it, the items will appear below it and the symbol will become a '-'. In order to close it, click the '-', items within it will be hidden and the symbol will become a '+'.
*: 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, you may 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).
* '''Drinking:''' If your Jar jar contains water, Open your Jarjar, 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, find the water inside a container and activate it. Then on the item in question, right click and there should be an ''Improve'' option.
Once clay items are baked, they [[decay]] slower, but can't be improved or repaired anymore. In addition to all the above uses, pottery items can also be used to:
* '''Cooking:''' You can make hot food with a pottery bowl. Add things into your bowl and then put it into a oven, forge or campfire. For more detail see [[Hot-Food Cookinghot food cooking]].
* '''Creating a compass:''' You can create a [[compass]] with a pottery jar, a [[needle]] and [[olive oil]]. See [[compass]] for details.
== 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.
