Hidden beneath Hytale’s forests and riverbeds lies a resource every builder craves-clay. Knowing where to search and how to extract it can mean the difference between a sturdy foundation and a half-finished dream.
How to find clay in Hytale
Clay appears both on the surface and underground, so you should sweep through Emerald Grove rivers first, where clay blocks mix with dirt along the banks and shallow water. If you don’t see any there, move into nearby caves and mine the compact clay clusters that generate in the walls and floors of underground tunnels. Later, once you reach Howling Sands, check canyon walls and rocky formations, where exposed deposits are easier to spot and farm without much digging.
There are two ways to obtain clay in Hytale. The first option is to locate a clay deposit and collect some clay blocks directly. Clay deposits may spawn in underground caves in the Emerald Wilds (Zone 1), but they’re quite rare. Here’s what such a deposit looks like:
Another way to obtain Hytale clay is to craft it from red sandstone cobble found in abundance in the Howling Sands region (Zone 2). Beware of the difference between “normal” clay and red clay here; although the latter spawns in large quantities within the desert region, you can’t turn red clay into other colors of clay. For that, you need the default clay type.
So, if all you want is red clay, mine the reddish-brown clay blocks pointed out by the upper arrow:
However, if you want normal clay (which may be used to craft white clay, pink clay, green clay, etc.), mine the red sandstone cobble blocks (lower arrow) instead. This type of block can spawn anywhere in the desert, but your best bet is to search the brown areas on the map.
How to craft clay from red sandstone in Hytale
To craft clay from red sandstone in Hytale, gather plenty of red sandstone blocks from desert biomes and bring them back to your base. Smelt red sandstone cobble in a furnace to refine it, then take the resulting red sandstone to a Furniture Workbench. Open the Pottery or blocks tab, select the clay recipe, and convert four pieces of red sandstone into one clay item. This method turns common desert stone into a steady supply of clay for later coloring and building projects.
With a decent stack of red sandstone cobble in your inventory, it’s time to turn it into clay. Here’s how to do this:
- Smelt some red sandstone cobble in a furnace. Two pieces of red sandstone cobble will transform into one block of red sandstone.
- Go to the workbench and open the pottery tab.
- Transform four red sandstone blocks into one block of clay.
In other words, you need eight pieces of red sandstone cobble to create one piece of clay in Hytale. Remember, if all you want is red sandstone, it’s better to mine it directly.
If you wish to turn your Hytale clay into smooth colored clay, you must use flower petals of the desired color at the furniture workbench. To make blue clay, for example, you’ll need blue petals, which can be looted from blue plants such as blue aloe. To make red or yellow clay, you would need red and yellow petals from plants such as dandelions and poppies.
Colored clay is the best way to craft a colorful mansion in Hytale‘s Adventure Mode. You can further enhance your smooth colored clay blocks by mixing them with hardwood in the furniture workbench’s “wooden walls” tab. White clay can be used to craft decorative cauldrons, too.
How to craft colored clay variants in Hytale
You turn normal clay into colored variants by combining it with petals or other dye ingredients at a crafting station (usually the Furniture Workbench or a standard crafting table, depending on the recipe).
Step-by-step: basic dyed clay
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Get base clay
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Craft clay from red sandstone at a Furniture Workbench (4 red sandstone → 1 clay), or use naturally found clay blocks.
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Make or gather dyes
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Collect petals from flowers (poppies, dandelions, etc.) for bright colors like red and yellow.
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Use charcoal or combinations like charcoal + white petals for darker or muted tones (grey, black-ish).
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Combine at the workbench
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Open the Furniture Workbench “pottery”/clay section, select the colored clay recipe, and put in:
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1 clay (or 2 clay for some “smooth” variants)
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1 matching dye ingredient (for example, pink petals → pink clay, charcoal → dark/black clay).
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Hardened/stained clay style recipe (video-style)
Some guides show a “hardened + dye” method:
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Smelt clay blocks in a Furnace to get hardened clay bricks.
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At a crafting table, place 1 dye in the center and surround it with 8 hardened clay to get 8 stained clay of that color.
Normal vs smooth colored clay
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“Normal” colored clay: crafted directly by mixing clay with petals/charcoal in the Furniture Workbench pottery tab.
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“Smooth” colored clay: often uses 2 clay + 1 pigment (for example, 2 clay + pink petals → Pink Clay – Smooth; 2 clay + charcoal → Black Clay – Smooth).
If you want lots of one color (for big builds), farm plenty of red sandstone first, then bulk-craft base clay and dye it before turning it into brick or smooth variants.
Where to find dyes and petals for coloring clay in Hytale
You can get petals and other dye ingredients both from the wild and from farming/crafting systems in Hytale.
Flowers and plants in the wild
These give you petals when you break them (punch/tool), not when you pick them up with the interact key.
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Emerald Grove (Zone 1) – Sunflowers (yellow petals), poppies (red), daisies (white), blue flax (blue), lavender and campunala (purple).
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Howling Sands (Zone 2) – Carmine Parched Thorn (red petals), purple arid flowers, some white hydrangea spawns.
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Whisperfrost Frontiers (Zone 3) – Extra spawns of yellow hibiscus, daisies, blue flax, lavender, campunala.
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Devastated Lands – Underground Jungle (Zone 4) – Common pink flowers and pink camelia for pink petals; more lavender variants for purple.
Farming and crafting petals (for mass dye)
Once you unlock farming benches, you can mass-produce petals instead of hunting flowers.
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Grow sunflowers to farm yellow petals; these are the only petals you can directly grow from the ground.
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Use cotton + yellow petals at the Furniture/Farmer’s Workbench to craft white petals, which act as the base for all other crafted petal colors.
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Combine white petals with crops or items to get other petals, for example:
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White petals + charcoal → black petals
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White petals + carrot → orange petals
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White petals + apple → red petals
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White petals + turnip → pink petals
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White petals + aubergine → purple petals
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White petals + lettuce → green petals
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White petals + blue mushrooms → blue/cyan petals (using Blue Flatcap or Blue Common Mushrooms found in specific forests and mountains).
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Using petals as dyes for clay
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Take normal clay blocks to a Furniture Workbench and put 1 clay together with 1 petal of the color you want; this gives you the matching colored clay variant.
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For smooth or fancier variants, some recipes use 2 clay + 1 petal of the chosen color instead.
