Automatic Clay Farm in Minecraft: Guide for Clay, Bricks, and Pottery

Clay is one of the many natural resources you’ve probably encountered during your time in Minecraft. The blue-gray block is hard to miss and is one of the most unique blocks you can use for your projects. There are several uses for it, giving you different options to enhance your builds. And after one of the latest updates, it’s even possible to produce clay automatically! This means you no longer have to search for it; you can simply sit back and then mine and use your clay as desired.

Minecraft Clay: The Perfect Resource for Construction Projects and Decoration

Clay is often forgotten, yet it is one of the oldest blocks you can find in Minecraft. Naturally, you can find small deposits on beaches, in swamps, or other water areas. In fact, naturally occurring clay is rarer than diamonds underground! You can also find clay in lush caves or in villages in mason houses.

However, there is now a method to produce clay yourself. We will delve deeper into this with our automatic farm! First, let’s look at what you can use clay for.

Minecraft Clay Balls: Production and Decorative Uses

When you mine your found or self-generated clay with a shovel, the block drops four clay balls. These can be reformed into a clay block. But don’t be too hasty, because the balls themselves can be fired in a kiln and used for cool recipes! This creates bricks, which you can use for some other crafting blocks. They are primarily intended as decorative elements.

• Brick Blocks: With a familiar pattern, perfect for roofs! It can also be crafted into stairs, slabs, and walls.
• Flower Pot: Perfect as a decoration for your house. You can plant any flower, saplings, and even mushrooms in the flower pot.
• Decorated Pot: The large pots are also a decorative block and should be used in combination with pottery shards from suspicious gravel or suspicious sand. So grab your brush and search for them!

Minecraft Ceramics and Terracotta: Easily Make Colorful Building Blocks

If you instead mine the clay with the “Silk Touch” enchantment or reassemble it from four clay balls, you can also process this block in a kiln. The result is ceramics (also known as terracotta), another wonderful building block for your projects.

In fact, you can also find ceramics in your world, specifically in mesa biomes. There you can find both neutral and dyed terracotta. But you can also fire it yourself and dye it in any of the 16 Minecraft colors. A flower farm (Minecraft Flower Farm Guide: How to Build an Automatic Flower Farm for Dyes and Bees) is a great addition to have all colors available. You also need ceramics for copying smithing templates.

Ceramics is a kind of natural counterpart to concrete, as the colors are much darker and less saturated than those blocks. They are often forgotten by Minecraft players, yet the dark colors can perfectly fit one of your ideas! Therefore, use ceramics more frequently in your world, and ideally with an automatic production method.

If you’re looking for vibrant colors and patterns, fire a dyed ceramic block again to get a series of 16 different glazed terracotta blocks that couldn’t be more colorful! There are some fun patterns hidden within.

Building an Automatic Clay Farm: Step-by-Step Guide

To produce clay automatically, we need to work with mud. With the introduction of dripstone, mud can be processed into clay. The good news is that you don’t have to manually search for mud in the mangrove swamp; you can also produce it yourself. By clicking on a regular dirt block with a water bottle, it turns into mud. And we automate this function in combination with the dripstones that dry the mud into clay.

As mentioned earlier, you must mine the clay yourself with a shovel. Use “Silk Touch” to directly obtain full clay blocks and use a regular shovel to get clay balls. You can expand the farm as much as you like, as long as you have enough resources (mainly iron for hoppers).

Materials List for the Automatic Clay Farm

• Building blocks
• 10 hoppers
• 5 dispensers
• 1 button
• 5 redstone dust
• 2 levers
• 2 powered rails
• 5 rails
• Hopper minecart
• 2 hoppers + double chest
• 5 pointed dripstone
• Dirt

Step-by-Step Guide: Create an Automatic Clay Farm

1. First, place a row of 5 hoppers (or the number of your choice) facing down into the ground. These collect the empty glass bottles, and you need to fill them all with empty bottles. Above them, place a row of dispensers facing forward. In front of the hoppers, build a row of regular building blocks, and behind the dispensers, a line of redstone dust.

2. Now we need a system that fills the dispensers with water bottles. For this, we need a row of hoppers pointing into the dispensers. At the ends, build one excess block and a stopper with your building block. Place powered rails at the ends. Over the hoppers in the middle, place regular rails. Attach a lever to the outer blocks and activate them. Place a minecart with a hopper on it.

3. At one end, you need to automatically fill the cart. For this, a simple hopper over the powered rail and a double chest is enough, which you keep refilling with water bottles. The cart automatically distributes these to all dispensers.

4. Now you need to attach a row of dripstones below the lower building blocks so the mud can dry out.

5. To make the farm work, place a row of dirt in front of the dispensers. Activate the dispensers with a button on the side, and the dirt will turn into mud. Wait a few minutes, and the mud will turn into clay. Then you can mine it with a shovel of your choice!

Conclusion: Infinite Clay for Your Minecraft Building Projects

Clay is underestimated by many Minecraft players, yet the block is very versatile. You can use it to create bricks and flower pots, but also to dive into the colorful world of ceramics and terracotta! With the introduction of mud and dripstones, clay can now be produced renewably. Create stunning structures with endless supplies of clay and bricks on your own server. Rent your Minecraft server and unleash your creativity!