Soulmask Clay: Farming Locations and Every Crafting Recipe

Clay shows up everywhere in Soulmask. From basic pottery to elaborate traps, this is one of the resources you will want stockpiled in serious quantities. Anyone running a Soulmask dedicated server with friends usually splits farming runs, because the demand stacks up fast. This guide covers where to find Clay, how respawns work, and every recipe in the crafting menu that calls for it.

Where Clay Spawns in Soulmask

A pickaxe is mandatory before you can mine anything. The starting tutorial walks you through crafting one, so this is a non-issue early on.

Clay nodes cluster along the shorelines of lakes and rivers. Pick the closest body of water on your map, follow its banks, and you will see the deposits dotting the coast. Because nodes respawn on a timer, you can keep returning to the same hotspot rather than fanning out across the world.

A heads up about a known bug: some players report that nodes stop respawning at certain locations. Threads on the Soulmask subreddit flagged the issue, and CampFire Studio has acknowledged it on Steam. If your usual spots have gone dry, the cause is upstream of your farming route.

Every Crafting Recipe That Uses Clay

The list runs long. Below is every blueprint in the game that pulls Clay from your inventory, grouped by purpose so you can budget materials per project.

Pottery and small crafted items

• Ceramic Mold: 10x Clay
• Bowl: 15x Clay and 1x Ceramic Mold
• Cup: 12x Clay and 1x Ceramic Mold
• Yellow Paint: 2x Clay
• Plaster: 1x Lime (Optional: 1x Clay and 2x Cinder)

Workstations, storage, and utility builds

• Potting Table: 25x Clay, 10x Stone, and 10x Plank
• Brewing Tank: 20x Stone, 2x Ceramic Mold, 10x Hardwood Plank, and 50x Clay
• Dye Vat: 80x Clay, 2x Ceramic Mold, 20x Branch, and 10x Cotton Rope
• Fertilizer Bucket: 10x Stone, 20x Clay, and 10x Plank
• Furnace: 100x Stone, 5x Ceramic Mold, and 50x Clay
• Worktop: 60x Bronze Ingot, 100x Stone Brick, 20x Hardwood Plank, and 50x Clay
• Building Workshop: 20x Clay, 20x Plank, and 10x Thick Rope (Optional: 1x Stone and 40x Flint)
• Earth Kiln: 50x Clay (Optional: 1x Stone and 100x Flint)
• Earth Kiln Part 1: 20x Stone Brick and 20x Clay
• Cooling Table: 50x Stone Brick, 40x Premium Leather, 40x Clay, and 20x Hardwood Plank
• Ice Cellar: 100x Stone Brick and 50x Clay
• Bathtub: 30x Hardwood Plank, 20x Stone Brick, 20x Clay, and 10x Bronze Ingot
• Breeding Farm: 20x Clay, 60x Bronze Ingot, 100x Plank, and 20x Leather Rope
• Rainwater Collector: 20x Clay, 2x Ceramic Mold, 8x Wooden Handle, and 5x Thick Rope
• Water Tank: 20x Clay, 2x Leather Rope, and 2x Ceramic Mold
• Well: 20x Thatch, 20x Clay, and 10x Rope (Optional: 1x Log and 10x Hardwood)
• Farmland: 20x Clay (Optional: 1x Stone and 40x Flint)
• Stone Foundation: 8x Stone Brick and 5x Clay
• Stone Pillar: 4x Stone Brick and 2x Clay
• Stone Stairs: 5x Stone Brick and 5x Clay

Chemistry containers

• Slime Can: 1x Egg and 5x Clay
• Combustion Can: 5x Mineral Oil, 10x Carbon Powder, and 5x Clay
• Fecal Tank: 2x Feces and 5x Clay
• Grease Tank: 5x Cooking Oil and 5x Clay
• Corrosion Tank: 5x Sulfur Powder, 5x Niter Powder, 2x Acidic Fluid, and 10x Clay (Optional: 1x Purified Poison and 2x Premium Poison)

Traps and combat gear

• Groundspike: 10x Branch and 5x Clay
• Small Trap: 20x Branch, 10x Clay, and 5x Thick Rope
• Concealment Mod 1: 2x Clay and 2x Fire Ash
• Quaking Star: 5x Clay, 1x Green Crystal, and 2x Resin
• Sticky Trap: 10x Clay and 5x Plank (Optional: 1x Cooking Oil and 5x Mineral Oil)
• Sticky Incendiary Device: 1x Combustion Can, 5x Cotton Rope, 2x Serum, and 5x Clay
• Sticky Explosive Can: 2x Mysterious Fiber, 10x Explosive, 5x Clay, 10x Mineral Oil, 10x Cotton Rope, 5x Bee Wax, and 10x Iron Chainmail
• Wooden Anti-climb Thorns: 10x Branch, 5x Clay, and 5x Plank
• Explosive Can Trap: 1x Explosive Can and 10x Clay (Optional: 1x Plank and 5x Hardwood Plank)
• Combustion Can Trap: 1x Combustion Can and 10x Clay

That covers every blueprint that drinks Clay. Once you know your build order, you can roughly forecast how many farming trips stand between you and your next big project, which beats the alternative of running back to the lake every five minutes.