I'm on hour 8 of looking for clay

[Donny Mescha]

Im on my 20th seed still cant find clay

 

[PoisonedPawn777]

34 minutes ago, Donny Mescha said:

Im on my 20th seed still cant find clay

 

How long do you spend looking and how far do you go? I almost always accidentally stumble over at least 1-3 deposits on my first day while gathering supplies. I can't remember the last normal seed I started that I didn't have clay firing during the first night.

[Vexxvididu]

2 hours ago, Donny Mescha said:

Im on my 20th seed still cant find clay

 

It's a near certainty that you've passed by it several times and are not spotting it.  From the top, it looks grassy.

[LadyWYT]

2 hours ago, Donny Mescha said:

Im on my 20th seed still cant find clay

 

You'll also want to search grassy lowland areas that have decent rainfall, and not forests or thick shrubland. Forests, with the exception of pine forest in deserts, will be covered in forest floor, making it nigh impossible to spot clay if it spawned there. Likewise, shrublands may contain clay deposits, but those deposits will be very hard to spot due to the thick foliage covering the ground(which also makes threats like holes and bears harder to spot as well). Blue clay tends to always generate by water, while red clay can generate at some higher elevations but not mountaintops.

As @Vexxvididu and @PoisonedPawn777 already said, you've likely run by a few deposits without realizing. From the top, clay can be hard to spot, since patchy grass will cover most of the clay's surface and the subtle texture difference can be difficult to notice while sprinting around. Clay is more easily noticed when viewed from the side, since it will have a mottled texture that stands out from nearby dirt. If you're playing with true map colors enabled, you can sometimes use the minimap to locate clay and peat deposits, as they will typically stand out as circular discolorations in the surrounding grass.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

I keep stumbling across Copper deposits in areas we've already looked. Our house is probably in the ONE stable chunk in the middle of a forest of unstable chunks.

There are resources everywhere.

probably a coincidence, but I wonder if the chunk stability has anything to do with resource distribution or vice versa. If you're only looking in stable areas, then perhaps that might be why you're not finding much. Also clay can have grass, ferns even flowers growing on top of it. It can be really tricky to find sometimes, especially if you're looking for it. I find most of my stuff when I'm not looking for it. Try looking for borax or copper. You'll find tons of clay that way, I bet!

[LadyWYT]

18 minutes ago, Teh Pizza Lady said:

probably a coincidence, but I wonder if the chunk stability has anything to do with resource distribution or vice versa. If you're only looking in stable areas, then perhaps that might be why you're not finding much.

To my knowledge, the chunk stability doesn't affect the resource distribution. Limiting the search to only stable chunks still isn't a very good idea though, since searching a wider area will give more chances to find stuff than searching a smaller area.

[Valsalan]

On 4/2/2026 at 12:58 PM, Donny Mescha said:

Im on my 20th seed still cant find clay

 

There is no way you are that unlucky. I suspect you just need some practice in spotting clay. Here are some pictures of what red clay looks like in open fields at various times of day. If all else fails, which it has seemed to for you, just find open plains with few trees and look for the splotchy red/blue texture in the grass. I do wish you all the best of luck. If you still can't find it in the next attempt, post the seeds you are using, and I'll look through it to find the clay that so rudely eludes you.