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.

[desdae]

Funny, I searched for fire clay in every direction like 4k+ blocks, but found only red clay. 

Last time I played was 1.19 world, when it was everywhere

[Krougal]

The necromancy never ends!

Yeah, uhhhh...lot of changes.

So blue clay has been made very rare. Red is the new blue!

Fireclay usually spawns under black coal and anthracite. You can also make it by processing flint and red clay. In 1.21 I am digging up plenty of it so haven't had to make any.

[Mrozak]

I am on 1.20.0-rc.4, but also using Plains and Valleys, Fields and Plateaus, and RiverGen.
I do not know how much, or if at all, does any of those mods influence the distribution of various deposits.

We are in temperate area of the world and...
- Red Clay is very often found on the surface - seems especially frequent on flat surfaces and surfaces only sparsely populated by trees if at all ('cause trees don't like to grow in a clay).
- Blue Clay has a much smaller presence, but that may be because it tends to sit slightly lower (seems at least one, or a few layers of dirt or what have you) - which may be the reason, why i usually see it in rivers (if RiverGen doesn't put it there, at least it exposes it when it creates the river).

- Fire Clay? Yes, i heard talks of this mythical creature, but never saw it myself, nor do i know of anybody who did.
But i never tried to find it. Since i heard that it now sits somewhere alongside the iron (or coal? not sure what type, or if true), i figure it's easier to just make it.
If i ever stumble on it by accident, that will be nice, but i am not going to look for it.

[Thorfinn]

I wouldn't say I actively seek out fireclay, it's more of an opportunity thing. If I'm in bauxite gravel, heck, yes, I'm keeping my eyes peeled. There's quite a lot there; it's just in small deposits now. Never stumbled on a large- (used to be regular- ) sized deposit. They may be mythical. But even if I didn't find fireclay, I still collected several stacks of flint, so it's kind of the same thing.

[Krougal]

5 hours ago, Mrozak said:

I am on 1.20.0-rc.4, but also using Plains and Valleys, Fields and Plateaus, and RiverGen.
I do not know how much, or if at all, does any of those mods influence the distribution of various deposits.

We are in temperate area of the world and...
- Red Clay is very often found on the surface - seems especially frequent on flat surfaces and surfaces only sparsely populated by trees if at all ('cause trees don't like to grow in a clay).
- Blue Clay has a much smaller presence, but that may be because it tends to sit slightly lower (seems at least one, or a few layers of dirt or what have you) - which may be the reason, why i usually see it in rivers (if RiverGen doesn't put it there, at least it exposes it when it creates the river).

- Fire Clay? Yes, i heard talks of this mythical creature, but never saw it myself, nor do i know of anybody who did.
But i never tried to find it. Since i heard that it now sits somewhere alongside the iron (or coal? not sure what type, or if true), i figure it's easier to just make it.
If i ever stumble on it by accident, that will be nice, but i am not going to look for it.

From my experience using worldgen mods, most of them don't affect resource distribution. TerraPrety might slightly.

There are a few that change rock strata, which changes a lot of things, but those are mods specifically for changing rock strata.

2 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

I wouldn't say I actively seek out fireclay, it's more of an opportunity thing. If I'm in bauxite gravel, heck, yes, I'm keeping my eyes peeled. There's quite a lot there; it's just in small deposits now. Never stumbled on a large- (used to be regular- ) sized deposit. They may be mythical. But even if I didn't find fireclay, I still collected several stacks of flint, so it's kind of the same thing.

They can be quite large since they tend to follow the coal deposits 1 for 1. It is just extremely rare that they will breach the surface. I guess caves don't tend to intersect them either? You do more caving than I do.

[Thorfinn]

Oh, yeah, caves cut through fireclay, too.

Like many others, I used to actively avoid caves because of the spawns and the falling damage, so that's another thing I don't suggest. Then I set my mind to practicing caving, and found it's not all that hard so long as you avoid doing it on high rift days. Even then, so long as you don't insist on placing/retrieving torches or investigating every ruins you  encounter. That's what lets the spawns build up to difficult levels.

I still don't turn down the chance to scope out deserts, though. The little grassy patches here and there seem to have a higher concentration of crops.