Clay

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For other uses, see Clay (disambiguation).

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Clay
Release																				6 April 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				1 coin
High alch																				1 coin
Low alch																				1 coin
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				1 kg
Examine
Some hard dry clay.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				1,529 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				434
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Clay (sometimes called hard clay to distinguish it from soft clay) is a material that players can obtain with level 1 Mining.

If a player uses water on clay, soft clay is created, awarding the player with 1 Crafting experience. 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 players use a bracelet of clay while mining, soft clay is mined instead of clay for 28 uses per bracelet. Soft clay can be directly mined in the Ithell clay mine; mining a soft clay rock with the bracelet will simultaneously mine two soft clay for every charge.

Mining

Clay
Mining level	1
Source	Clay rocks
Core
Rock stats
Durability	50
Hardness	0
Multiplier	0.66
Base ore	1

Mine locations

Mine	Members	Amount	Requirements
Burthorpe mine		6	N/A
Crafting Guild (mine)		3	40
Draynor mine		3	N/A
Elemental Workshop mine		4	Elemental Workshop I (partial completion)
Gunnarsgrunn south mine		3	N/A
Lumbridge south-east mine		2	N/A
Menaphos worker district mine		4	The Jack of Spades
Uzer Hunter mine		3	N/A

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Clay rock	1	1	Always
Exiled kalphite worker	75	1	Common
Goblin Raids Goblin raids	N/A	1	4/10
Icefiend Ice Mountain	35	1 (noted)	Uncommon
Imp herald	98	2	Uncommon
Imp God Wars Dungeon		1	Very rare
Imp	5	2	Uncommon
Level 2 grid	1	1	Common
Level 3 grid	1	1	Common
Mutated zygomite	58; 65	1	Uncommon

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Raw mud pie	29	1 × Part mud pie 2 1 × Clay	3,502
Soft clay	1	1 × Clay	1,940
Soft clay (Using bowl of water)	1	1 × Clay 1 × Bowl of water	1,940
Soft clay (Using bucket of water)	1	1 × Clay 1 × Bucket of water	1,940
Soft clay (Using jug of water)	1	1 × Clay 1 × Jug of water	1,940

Disassembly

Clay
Disassembly category	Ores
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	1/1

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• update 6 April 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Prior to the Mining & Smithing rework, clay was the fastest respawning rock as it respawned in just one game tick.
• Players can get 200,000,000 experience by mining exactly 40,000,000 clay without bonus experience, generating a profit of 61,160,000,000 at the current Grand Exchange mid price.
• 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 3,985,930,223 coins (at the current market price). It takes about 1 minute to mine 28 clay using a rune pickaxe and about 1 minute to bank and return so this means about 840 clay per hour, for a total of 3,104 hours of work.
• 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 that can be used in 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.