Blue Clay Roofs and Bricks

[KoviBat]

Basically the title. I think it's a bit odd that fire clay and red clay can be made into bricks and roofs, but blue clay can't. If that's by design because that clay is softer or something irl, I understand, but I think we could do with a few more options for decoration.

Edit: Correction. Blue Clay shingles and bricks are in the game, they just don't appear blue in the pottery menu, and are completely black once fired. I think an improvement could be made to the UI to make the shingles stand out more in the UI, as well as make the end result more of a blue-grey than a solid black.

Edited August 19, 2025 by KoviBat

[Steel General]

In my current game, most recent stable vanilla, I have many structures made with brick and tile from blue clay. In the beehive kiln you can fire them to a cream color. The recipes are the same as for other clay items.

[Krougal]

10 minutes ago, Steel General said:

In my current game, most recent stable vanilla, I have many structures made with brick and tile from blue clay. In the beehive kiln you can fire them to a cream color. The recipes are the same as for other clay items.

Yeah, we'd like them to actually fire into blue. Go figure.

[Steel General]

Ah! That didn't seem to be OP's concern, but I can see how that subtext might've been intended

I'm surprised to note they're not included in the next version's colorful pottery. Weird.

I gotta wonder, then, if it's realism - I surely wouldn't have expected cream to come from blue, so maybe there's an unexpected reason blue isn't an option with these methods.

[Krougal]

1 hour ago, Steel General said:

Ah! That didn't seem to be OP's concern, but I can see how that subtext might've been intended

I'm surprised to note they're not included in the next version's colorful pottery. Weird.

I gotta wonder, then, if it's realism - I surely wouldn't have expected cream to come from blue, so maybe there's an unexpected reason blue isn't an option with these methods.

Well to be honest, maybe it wasn't OP's concern, but being as you can make tiles out of them, it was the only conclusion I could reach, and at any rate, I'd like blue to be an option. Not just for tiles, for all pottery.

As far as getting cream from them and all the other colors from the different temperatures (opening or closing hatches, meant to simulate regulating temperature) there is some science behind it.

 

[Guimoute]

I made some structures with blue clay tile roofs in 1.18 and 1.19. In 1.20, they simply removed the blue entirely and remapped it to gray. Now my existing structures look bad. They could have left the blue at least as a legacy block, like the hardened clay blocks that can't be made anymore but still exist...

[KoviBat]

Some immediate context, I do mean using blue clay to make shingles that you fire in a pit kiln, not a color of brick used by the beehive kiln and hatch doors. I wasn't aware it was a feature that got removed. Seems a bit weird to me. Roofs and bricks are kinda the only things different colors of clay can make that are somewhat unique between one another, aside from water jugs. Removing that makes blue clay just less useful in comparison to red clay because it's less common and has even less uses.

[Krougal]

Yeah, I wasn't sure if I had imagined we used to be able to make blue tile or not.

[KoviBat]

Final update, Blue shingles are in the game. The reason I couldn't tell is because they're the same color as all of the common clay recipes like bowls, which is a light grey, so consider this resolved.

[Krougal]

Boo! Hiss!

I want them to be blue, I know they exist.

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