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Asablief

Does clay only appear in certain biomes?

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I've searched every river and pond far and wide and there is 0 clay anywhere. I'm in a sizable biome. Are they connected?

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Clay should appear in ponds and along rivers its not frequent but when you find some you'll have clay for weeks. Also you might want to dig around a little as clay is inside dirt blocks, it can be covered in grass even on the side

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Also we no longer have biomes. They have been replaced.

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Another full day of searching for clay, and nothing

Is clay supposed to only yield 0-2 pieces? I noticed that it often gave off 4 but they disappeared immediately.

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Also we no longer have biomes. They have been replaced.

Push F3 while you are in game, and you will see a biome listed.

The world gen is supposed to be completely determined by "layers" now, so I assume that the biome listed on the F3 screen is simply calculated by the evaluation of the layers at that point.

I don't really know how the clay is generated, but it could be based on that biome value. Maybe only "river" and "lake" have clay?

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Clay is so rare for me that I really have no choice but to spawn some because I can't progress in the game.

Like, I've searched my searched radius to like 3k blocks in creative now and I've found four blocks. Four blocks. That's it. I'm at a loss now. Meanwhile, I've seen videos of people with so much clay that they can make 9000 ceramic moulds.

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I think (correct me if I'm wrong) biome determines what trees are present, and what other flora and fauna are present.

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I think (correct me if I'm wrong) biome determines what trees are present, and what other flora and fauna are present.

Vanilla biomes may still affect some things, but as of build 49 it won't affect what trees are spawning. From the change-log:

  • Rock layers are no longer linear and confined to a strict set of biomes. They also overlap in different ways, meaning that the edge of one rock layer does not mean that you are at the edge of another layer beneath it.
  • Similarly the tree layers are defined in an overlapping fashion.
Take a look at the changelog for more details.
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Another full day of searching for clay, and nothing

Is clay supposed to only yield 0-2 pieces? I noticed that it often gave off 4 but they disappeared immediately.

This might be the cause of a 1.3 MC feature, where dropped items of the same type will combine into one pile (e.g. dropping 1 stick and then another in the same spot will leave a stack of 2 sticks, as opposed to just two individual sticks on the ground).

So if your breaking apart multiple clay blocks at a time, their drops will combine together.

When this 1st started happening, kept thinking all my cobble stone was glitching out (the horror :) ).

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You really have to find clay often so just look around some more. If you've found clay once, it will last a long long time. Make sure to clear your inventory before you go clay hunting so you can take as much as possible in one trip.

greetz,

Cake

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Here's how i do it:

1) Find body of water.

2) Look along it and all of it's routes.

3) Do #2 for about 3000 or so blocks

4) WE HAVE A WINNER!

Really, I can find it easily. (If it's not on a server)

But, if you can't find any, then um...............................................................................................................

(2 DAYS LATER)

Aha! How about diggng in random places near water!

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Yep this needs addressing in my opinion. Too hard to find, I know TFC is about patience but this is just pure frustration and I'm sure Bioxx didn't intend it to be this rare. He always says it's a balance between realism and fun. And this is almost, almost killing the fun. Still i'm not going to cheat the search goes on

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try the seed "happy" you spawn inside a sequoia forest with clay in the river next to you

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try the seed "happy" you spawn inside a sequoia forest with clay in the river next to you

Cheers but the world I have at the moment is stunning! plus every second rock I turn over has zinc or tin (seriuosly it's crazy) more than enough for pick and pro pick in 1 game day!!! So that's why I'm not complaining hard, you win some (ores) and lose some (clay). It's just for me the game is about tracking down ores not clay!?!

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