Only Red clay?

[Sorpan]

Hello.
Only clay i can found is red clay. I traveled 3k block to each direction and everything was red clay. I downloaded blockowerlay and set finding fire clay in 7k block radius and it didnt found nothing.
Any suggestions what is wrong?

Thx

[Vratislav]

It may be a bug or a result of particular wordgen, in 1.20 it is connecting the fire clay with (I think) Hematite deposits.

In my gameplay, I gave up looking for the fireclay. I have cooked half stack of flint and ground it, this way the fire clay can be obtained from red or blue clay in good amount for the early game. 

[Sorpan]

thx, i did not know it can be crafted.

[Thorfinn]

 No, blue clay is quite rare now, and fireclay is special -- it can forms underneath black coal, and, reportedly, at the bottom of the sea.

I have to make most of my fireclay now. Everything for the first tranche anyway. Sometimes by the time I'm building the second run of bloomeries I'm using mined fireclay, but quite often, it's not until I'm producing steel, if then.

[LadyWYT]

Red clay spawns in higher altitudes. Blue clay spawns near sea level. Both are interchangeable for most things, outside of some brick/pottery colors, as far as I am aware.

Fire clay, as @Thorfinn has already noted, only spawns now under anthracite or black coal deposits. You can, however, craft fire clay by combining blue/red clay with calcined flint powder. To get calcined flint powder, you'll need to bake regular flint in a firepit to get calcined flint, and then grind that up into a powder via a quern.

I should also note that you will also need a hammer and chisel to craft the quern now, in addition to the standard four blocks of hard stone and two sticks.

[Michael Gates]

3 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

I should also note that you will also need a hammer and chisel to craft the quern now, in addition to the standard four blocks of hard stone and two sticks.

The part of this that made me go "huh." You've got to make a bronze or copper chisel to progress to iron now, because you need the quern to make the clay to make the bloomeries to etc. etc. I generally never made anything but the bare minimum from those early metals, and then after getting iron just spearheads and lanterns, so I keep going "why do I even have this lever?" at it.