Clay

This article is about clay as it is mined. For the form of clay used mainly in Crafting, see Soft clay. For the rock that clay comes from, see Clay rock. For the clay used in Stealing Creation, see Sacred clay.

Clay

Release date	6 April 2001 (Update)
Members?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alch	0 coins
Low Alch	0 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	0 coins
Examine	Some hard dry clay.
Weight	1 kg

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Clay

Clay (sometimes called Hard clay to distinguish it from soft clay) is a material that players can obtain with level 1 mining, to gain 5 Mining experience points.

Players can mine clay rocks at:

• the Crafting Guild
• the Dwarven Mine
• the Grand Tree Mine
• the Fight Arena mining site
• Rimmington
• Rellekka
• south-west Varrock
• south of Barbarian Village
• Burthorpe mines
• the Draynor Mine.

If a player uses water on clay, soft clay is created. As of 15 February 2011, players no longer need a container for the water, meaning soft clay can be made directly at a water source. This is used to make pottery in Crafting, Urns, furniture in Construction and Magic tablets.

If a bracelet of clay is worn while mining, soft clay is mined instead of clay for 28 uses per bracelet.

It is rare to find a gem in a clay rock.

Dropping monsters

Monster	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Imp	2, 7	1	5Very rare
Mutated zygomite	74,86	1	3Uncommon

Trivia

• Clay is the fastest respawning rock as it respawns in just one game tick.
• Some players find that mining clay is a good way to make money on F2P servers.
• Training Mining with clay from level 1 to 99 would require a total of 2,606,887 pieces of clay be mined, which would turn a profit of coins (at the current market price).
• After the update that allows players to soften clay directly with a water source, including wells, players could still use some water-filled containers to do so. A bucket of water, jug of water and bowl of water may be used to soften clay, but not vials of water, waterskins or watering cans. The ones usable this way have an "empty" option but not those that are not, except for vials, which could be emptied but not used to soften clay.
• If the player uses a suitable filled container on dry clay while being within two squares of a water source, they would automatically refill the container and the player could soften all clay in one go, although it is simpler and faster to use the clay on the water source.