Guides:Pottery(tutorial)

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Summary

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 that are used and thus trained by this Tutorial

• Pottery

Assumed Knowledge

Information you are expected to know or have obtained from other tutorials

• Woodcutting Tutorial
• Digging Tutorial

Items needed

Raw Materials

Raw Materials are consumed in the process of creating the item

• Clay
• Kindling
• Log OR Peat OR Tar

Neccesary Tools

Neccesary tools that are required to make the item

• Campfire OR Forge
• Steel and Flint

Useful tools

Useful tools help improve the quality of an item, or complete incomplete items

• Wooden Clay Shaper
• Wooden Spatula
• Water(In Pottery Jar)

Items covered in this tutorial

• Pottery Bowl
• Pottery Jar
• Pottery Flask

Pottery Bowl

Pottery 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

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. With your Hand active, right click the Clay, Create > Containers > Pottery Bowl
   1. 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
5. 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
   1. 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
   2. 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
6. Right click, Open your Forge or Campfire. Drag the clay Bowl from your inventory into the Campfire or Forge
   1. 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.
7. 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: 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 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

Making

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. With your Hand active, right click the Clay, Create > Containers > Pottery Jar
   1. 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
5. 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
   1. 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
   2. 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
6. Right click, Open your Forge or Campfire. Drag the clay Jar from your inventory into the Campfire or Forge
   1. 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
7. 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.

Using

• 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 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

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. With your Hand active, right click the Clay, Create > Containers > Pottery Flask
   1. 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
5. Once you have a complete Clay Flask 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
   1. 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
   2. 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
6. Right click, Open your Forge or Campfire. Drag the Clay Flask from your inventory into the Campfire or Forge
   1. 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
7. 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 to 'Glowing Hot' before they are finished.

Using

• Adding: To add to a Flask, 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 and drag it outside of the Flask into the rest of your inventory.
• 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 '-'. 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 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 and create an 'Unfinished item', where you have a choice... if you have the tools neccesary 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 item of a specific quality you will need to improve it to that quality while it is still a Clay item instead of a pottery one. This means you should improve it before you put it into the fire.