Clay

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Clay is a block that can be found abundantly in lush caves, in patches in shallow surface water or converted from mud using pointed dripstone. It can be smelted into terracotta or broken into clay balls which are smeltable into bricks.

Clay blocks can be mined with any item, but shovels are quickest. Destroying a clay block yields 4 clay balls. If broken with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops itself instead. Destroying a clay block with a tool enchanted with Fortune does not increase the amount of clay dropped.

Clay generates in large quantities on the floors of ponds in lush caves.

Clay can also generate in lush caves in the form of blobs. Clay attempts to generate 46 times per chunk in blobs of size 0-160, at any height. It can replace stone, granite, andesite, diorite, polished granite‌^{[BE only]}, polished andesite‌^{[BE only]}, polished diorite‌^{[BE only]}, tuff‌^{[JE only]}, and deepslate‌^{[JE only]}.

Clay is found underwater in shallow, crystal-shaped disks, replacing dirt that generates in shallow rivers, lakes, and oceans in most grassy biomes. Few blocks of the disk can also generate above water, or under other water sources than the sea level.

Clay generates in mason houses in plains, savanna, and desert villages, and under fisher cottages in taiga villages.

An enderman holding a clay block drops the block upon death.

{ "item": "Clay", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }

In Java Edition, when the player has the Hero of the Village status effect, a mason villager might throw that player a clay block as a gift.

If mud is placed above a block with a pointed dripstone hanging underneath, the mud eventually turns into clay, although the dripstone does not deposit any water into a cauldron. This conversion does not happen in the Nether.^[1]

Big dripleaves, small dripleaves, mangrove propagules, azaleas and flowering azaleas are the only plants that can be placed on clay. Unlike most other blocks, clay supports small dripleaves even outside of water.

When an azalea or flowering azalea placed on a block of clay is grown into an azalea tree, the clay block turns into rooted dirt.

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Issues relating to "Clay" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• In real life, clay can actually be reddish-brown, not just gray, and can often be found under the surface and away from sand. This color is reflected in the appearance of terracotta, bricks, and flower pots.

• 👁 Naturally generated clay on the floor of lush caves
  
  Naturally generated clay on the floor of lush caves
• 👁 Naturally occurring clay blocks in a lake
  
  Naturally occurring clay blocks in a lake
• 👁 Naturally occurring clay as seen on a dry surface
  
  Naturally occurring clay as seen on a dry surface
• 👁 An artificially made clay floor with clay balls standing on it
  
  An artificially made clay floor with clay balls standing on it
• 👁 Clay can appear on the surface out of water as long as the block it replaces is dirt or mycelium
  
  Clay can appear on the surface out of water as long as the block it replaces is dirt or mycelium
• 👁 Some clay that naturally spawned in a lake but replaced the dirt under a village farm
  
  Some clay that naturally spawned in a lake but replaced the dirt under a village farm
• 👁 Clay generated outside of water
  
  Clay generated outside of water
• 👁 A large number of clay disks visible beneath shallow water
  
  A large number of clay disks visible beneath shallow water
• 👁 A clay blob with some clay balls before Java Edition Beta 1.8
  
  A clay blob with some clay balls before Java Edition Beta 1.8

• Brick
• Terracotta

• Block of the Week: Clay – Minecraft.net on June 2, 2017