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

Clay is one of the many natural resources you have likely encountered during your time in Minecraft. The blue-grey block is unmistakable and one of the most unique blocks you can use for your projects. There are several uses for it, each providing different options to enhance your structures. And with one of the latest updates, it is even possible to produce clay automatically! This means you no longer have to search for it; you can simply relax and then mine and use your clay as desired.

Minecraft Clay: The Perfect Resource for Construction Projects and Decoration

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

Nowadays, however, there is also a method to produce clay yourself. We will delve deeper into this with our automatic farm! But 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, as the balls themselves can be fired in a furnace and used for cool recipes! This results in bricks, which you can use for several other crafting blocks. They are primarily intended as decorative elements.

• Brick Blocks: With a familiar pattern that is perfect for roofs! They can also be crafted into stairs, slabs, and walls.
• Flower Pot: Perfect as decoration for your house. You can plant any flower, sapling, 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 recombine it from four clay balls, you can also process this block in the furnace. The result is ceramics (also known as terracotta), another wonderful building block for your projects.

You can actually find ceramics in your world as well, namely in mesas. There, you can find both neutral and colored terracotta. But you can also fire it yourself and dye it as you wish in one of Minecraft’s 16 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 serve as a natural counterpart to concrete, as their colors are significantly darker and less saturated than those of these blocks. They are often forgotten by Minecraft players, yet the dark colors might perfectly fit one of your ideas! Therefore, use more ceramics in your world, and preferably with an automatic production method.

If you are looking for vibrant colors and patterns, then fire a dyed ceramic block again. This results in a range of 16 different glazed ceramic blocks, which couldn’t be more colorful! Some fun patterns are hidden here.

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. And the good news is, you don’t have to manually search for mud in the mangrove swamp either, as you can also produce it yourself. Clicking on a regular dirt block with a water bottle turns it into mud. We will automate this function in combination with dripstones that dry the mud into clay.

As mentioned earlier, you will need to manually mine the clay with a shovel. Use “Silk Touch” to obtain full clay blocks directly and a regular shovel to get clay balls. You can also expand the farm as you wish, as long as you have enough resources (primarily 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: Creating an Automatic Clay Farm

1. First, place a row of 5 hoppers (or your desired number) facing into the ground. These collect the empty glass bottles and you must fill them all with empty bottles. Above this, place a row of dispensers facing forward. In front of the hoppers, build a row of regular building blocks, and behind the dispensers, add 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. Build an excess block at the ends and a stopper with your building block. Place a powered rail at each end. Over the hoppers in the middle, place regular rails. Attach a lever to the outer blocks and activate them. Place a hopper minecart on top.

3. At one end, you need to fill the cart automatically. A simple hopper above the powered rail and a double chest, which you continuously refill with water bottles, is sufficient. The cart automatically distributes these to all dispensers.

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

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

Conclusion: Unlimited Clay for Your Minecraft Construction Projects

Clay is underestimated by many Minecraft players, yet it is a very versatile block. You can use it to create bricks and flower pots, as well as dive into the colorful world of ceramics and terracotta! With the introduction of mud and dripstones, clay can now be produced renewably. Create breathtaking structures with unlimited supplies of clay and bricks on your own server. Rent your Minecraft server and let your creativity run wild!