Uncraft raw clay bricks back into clay

[MiahTRT]

I now have 16 red clay bricks in the early-game with nearly no purpose <.<

[Tom Cantine]

I can see that. As long as they haven't been fired, it should be possible to turn any clay item back into workable clay by adding water and working it for a while. 

In fact, a very simple way to implement this is to just borrow the system for washing rot from a pot: toss the unfired clay item into water, and it turns into clay again, perhaps with an appropriate loss of some material.

[Thorfinn]

Welcome to the forums, @MiahTRT

Would be an easy enough mod, I guess. Though it would give you an easy way to compress and store clay that the game obviously did not intend.

Alternatively for a one-off like this, you could just toss them into a deep hole, go into creative

/gm 2

give yourself a stack of red clay, then go back to survival.

/gm 1

 

[LadyWYT]

3 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

Though it would give you an easy way to compress and store clay that the game obviously did not intend.

I figure you could probably just make a portion of the clay be returned in that case, rather than the entire supply used. That way you can store clay like that if you really want, but you'll end up losing quite a bit of material long-term. Or perhaps add some sort of exception to storing raw bricks in crates.

[Thorfinn]

Sure, you could. There just are not a lot of things that you can currently do that with in-game. Fences, paths, cobblestone, roofing, one and done.. Of the backpacks, only the handbasket is recyclable. Layer of sticks, sort of, though it is tedious. Hay is the only thing I can think of that is fully recyclable from just craft grid. I don't know of any armor you can  recycle. Once firewood, always firewood. Chests, barrels, straw dummies. Once you choose to knap flint, you either knap it or lose it. Same with placing that first piece of clay. You can remove it, sure, but that one piece is gone.

There just are not that many reversible recipes. Not that there couldn't be, no. Just that there are not. Deliberate or "Whoops, forgot!"? Almost every time?

[D3K01]

i agree that unfired clay should be returnable, a common thing in classical pottery is that dry clay can be smashed and ground into clay dust and then mixed with water to return it useability. though if we are considering an update to clay mechanics, why don't we also consider china products as well. despite what a lot of people think, china clay isn't just used for pottery, it's used as a fertilizer, and a rubber/resin filler to make the products stronger, and due to it's high iron content used as a medicinal base in low doses. mind you when i say low doses, i mean that the medicine is mixed with a small dollop of wet china clay to bind the medicine together, and if i remember correctly one of it's most important ingredients is Diatomaceous earth which is used to kill parasites.