Finding fireclay is difficult, and the only way to make it requires me to have already made fireclay

[MagMoff]

Fireclay is supposedly found in bauxite. Problem is, there seems to be nothing but claystone for miles.

If I want to make it, I need a quern. To make a quern, I need a chisel. To make a chisel, I need hard ore and a forge. To make a forge, I need fireclay

Is there something I'm missing? I would honestly love to get this step of the game over with.

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! 

6 minutes ago, MagMoff said:

If I want to make it, I need a quern. To make a quern, I need a chisel. To make a chisel, I need hard ore and a forge. To make a forge, I need fireclay

You will need a quern, yes, but a copper chisel can be used to craft the quern, and a copper chisel can be forged on a copper anvil with a copper hammer. The forge only requires cobblestone to craft. You don't actually need fireclay until you get to iron working, steel refining, glass smelting, and baking things other than charred bread.

Once you have a quern, you simply use it to grind calcined flint chunks into powdered calcined flint. That powder can then be mixed with red clay or blue clay to make fire clay(one unit of powder will make eight units of fire clay). To get calcined flint chunks, you will have to cook regular flint at a very high temperature in a firepit.

[MagMoff]

12 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Welcome to the forums! 

You will need a quern, yes, but a copper chisel can be used to craft the quern, and a copper chisel can be forged on a copper anvil with a copper hammer. The forge only requires cobblestone to craft. You don't actually need fireclay until you get to iron working, steel refining, glass smelting, and baking things other than charred bread.

Once you have a quern, you simply use it to grind calcined flint chunks into powdered calcined flint. That powder can then be mixed with red clay or blue clay to make fire clay(one unit of powder will make eight units of fire clay). To get calcined flint chunks, you will have to cook regular flint at a very high temperature in a firepit.

So I may have looked at the cobblestone recipe, and the automatically scrolling interchangeable ingredients were on fireclay when I looked. Thanks for curing my stupidity.