Red Clay should be able to make Clinker Bricks

[PineReseen]

I'll admit, I don't have a lot of experience with bricks, but from what I've read, clinker bricks are simply wet clay bricks that have been heated so much that their surface has vitrified, aka. turned into glass. Both the blue and red clay in the game, when fired in a pit kiln, produce exactly the same ceramic (which seems to be of adequate quality), so I think they should have rather similar firing temperatures. But why then does red clay not make clinker bricks, but blue clay does? Blue clay is also rather difficult to find on some worlds, so you just can't get clinker bricks reliably. The wikipedia page for clinker bricks has an image of a vitrified red brick:

I think a voice that has actual experience with this would be appreciated. Besides, we could always have light and dark clinker bricks with slightly different shades. Thanks for reading!

[LadyWYT]

7 hours ago, PineReseen said:

Both the blue and red clay in the game, when fired in a pit kiln, produce exactly the same ceramic

Not quite. The ceramics serve the same purpose in the game, this is true, but as of 1.22 red clay fires into earthy orange ceramic and blue clay fires into earthy brown ceramic.

That being said, I'd like to see red and blue clay have the same chances to produce clinker brinks. I don't know that much about brick making, but I do get the impression that clinkers aren't really a desirable brick, so it seems like both clay types should be able to produce the occasional dud. 

[PineReseen]

6 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

Not quite. The ceramics serve the same purpose in the game, this is true, but as of 1.22 red clay fires into earthy orange ceramic and blue clay fires into earthy brown ceramic.

That being said, I'd like to see red and blue clay have the same chances to produce clinker brinks. I don't know that much about brick making, but I do get the impression that clinkers aren't really a desirable brick, so it seems like both clay types should be able to produce the occasional dud. 

Huh. I forgot that was in the prerelase versions at all. But since they serve the same purpose, I guess that doesn't really change anything. Pit kilns do average around 1100 degrees centigrade, and the result is proper usable earthenware, so I reckon that the red clay isn't significantly more impervious to heat than blue clay.