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 rocks.

This article has money making guides: Humidifying clay, Mining clay.

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Clay
Released							28 February 2001 (Update)
Members							No
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Destroy							Drop
Examine							Some hard dry clay.
Values
Value							1 coin
High alch							0 coins
Low alch							0 coins
Weight							1 kg
Respawn time							100 ticks (60 seconds)
Grand Exchange
Exchange							100 coins (info)
Buy limit							13,000
Daily volume							2,428,236
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Advanced data
Item ID							434

Clay (sometimes called hard clay to distinguish it from soft clay) is mined from clay rocks, requiring 1 Mining, and yielding 5 Mining experience. When mined it respawns in one game tick. Using a water container, such as a bucket of water, on it makes soft clay. Alternatively the Lunar spell humidify can do the same.

Soft clay is used to make pottery in Crafting, furniture in Construction, and Magic tablets. Mining a clay rock while wearing a bracelet of clay yields soft clay, similar to how it can also be mined directly from soft clay rocks in Trahaearn mine in Prifddinas.

Clue geodes are still obtainable when using a bracelet of clay.

Mining info

Clay Rock
Level required					1
Mining XP					5 xp
Rock					Clay rocks
Required tool					Pickaxe
Respawn time					1.2 seconds

Uses

Quests

• Prince Ali Rescue: 1 × clay to make soft clay
• Doric's Quest: 6 × clay
• Dragon Slayer I: 1 × clay to make soft clay
• One Small Favour: 1 × clay to make soft clay
• The Golem: 4 × clay to make soft clay
• Enakhra's Lament: 1 × clay to make soft clay
• In Aid of the Myreque: 1 × clay to make soft clay
• Getting Ahead: 1 × clay to make soft clay

Products

Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials
	Raw mud pie		29	0	1 × Clay 1 × Part mud pie (water)
	Soft clay (Bowl)		None	None	1 × Clay 1 × Bowl of water
	Soft clay (Bucket)		None	None	1 × Clay 1 × Bucket of water
	Soft clay (Humidify)		68	65	1 × Clay 1 × Fire rune 3 × Water rune 1 × Astral rune
	Soft clay × 27 (Humidify inventory)		68	65	27 × Clay 1 × Fire rune 3 × Water rune 1 × Astral rune
	Soft clay (Jug)		None	None	1 × Clay 1 × Jug of water

Item sources

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Body Golem	50	3–4	6/52
Chaos Golem	70	3–4	6/52
Clay rocks	1	1	Always
Flawed Golem	13	1	8/52
Flawed Golem	13	2	5/52
Flawed Golem	13	3	3/52
Imp	2; 7	1	4/128
Mind Golem	30	2–3	6/52
Soil Level 2 digs	1	1	1/16
Soil Level 3 digs	1	1	1/20
Zygomite	74; 86	1	7/137
Zygomite	74; 86	1	7/140

Item spawns

Location	Members	Spawns	Map
Darkmeyer - lower tier		1	Maplink

Trivia

• Clay is the fastest respawning rock as it respawns in just one game tick.
• 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 260,688,700 if sold at the current price of 100 coins each. 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.