How to Find and Use Clay in Stardew Valley: 3 Simple Methods

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Many resources in Stardew Valley are easy enough to collect, but one that often stumps new players is how to find clay. Clay can be found in the ground, from artifact spots, or from the mines, so you may have already picked some up without even realizing it. If you need to collect a lot of clay for making recipes or building silos, however, we'll go over all the places you can find clay to make your grind easier.

Things You Should Know

You can collect clay from any dirt or sand tile, but there is a higher chance of finding clay if you till an artifact spot.
Geodes can produce clay when broken open, and geodes can be most easily obtained from the mines.
If you have access to Ginger Island, the dig site can spawn clay nodes that only give clay when broken.

Tilling Ground & Artifact Spots

Equip the hoe tool. The hoe is one of the default tools you get when you start Stardew Valley. It looks like a gray rectangle with a long wooden handle.

Till the ground. You can get clay randomly from tilling any spot on the ground, so you may have collected some while you cleared out areas to plant your crops. You can get clay from tilling dirt or sand.

Use the hoe on an artifact spot. Artifact spots look like three worms coming up out of the ground. These spots can give you various treasures, but they can also give you crafting supplies. Clay can be found in artifact spots at any location. You have a 24-60% chance (depending on the artifact spot location) to get clay, and you have the possibility of getting 1 to 3 chunks of clay.

Mining Rocks & Geodes

Equip the pickaxe tool. The pickaxe is one of the default tools you get when you start Stardew Valley. It looks like a gray boomerang with a long wooden handle.

Break open rocks. Breaking open rocks in the mines gives you a chance of collecting geodes. Each geode has a 6.25% chance of containing a chunk of clay. In order to open Geodes, you'll need to visit the blacksmith in town and pay a small processing fee.

Use bombs. Bombs are a single-use craftable item that you can use to clear big portions of the mine at once. Bombs will break all of the rocks in it's effective radius, giving you a chance to get more geodes, and it will till a smaller radius of dirt tiles, which can also provide clay.

Break open clay nodes at the Ginger Island Dig Site. Ginger Island can be accessed if you've repaired the boat at Willy's Fish Shop. There is a dig site on Ginger Island similar to the quarry that can spawn clay nodes, a mining node that specifically drops clay.

Receiving Gifts

Wait for the Feast of the Winter Star. This is the final festival of the year in Stardew Valley, and the main event of this festival is the secret gift-giving.

Get Jas or Vincent as your secret gift-giver. Children have a chance of giving you clay as a gift, but it isn't a very reliable way to get this resource as it's random which gift-giver you get and which gift they give you. While you can get clay as a gift, clay is not liked by any of the villagers as gifts. All of the villagers dislike clay, with the exception of Abigail, Evelyn, George, Haley, Jas, Marnie, Sebastian, and Vincent hating clay.

Using Clay

Clay is used in a few recipes. Three of the most important items clay is used for is to make Quality Retaining soil, Deluxe Retaining Soil, and a Bone Mill. Clay is also used to make a Garden Pot, Brick Floor, and Fiber Seeds.

Clay is used to make the silo. The silo is an important building if you have farm animals, especially during the winter. You'll need 10 clay to complete this building.