In Lightyear Frontier, Clay is made through a process starting from harvesting stone in the world, turning it into sand, and then making the sand into clay. Clay is used for many building and crafting recipes in the game. Follow me through this article as we learn more about clay in Lightyear Frontier.
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How to Make Clay in Lightyear Frontier
Let me make it as clear as possible. You harvest stones in the world and bring that stone back to your base. You put that stone into the Grinder to get sand. Each stone will output 2 sand. Then pick up the 2 sand you have and go to the Assembler. There, craft your sand into clay.
How to Unlock the Grinder and Assembler
Both of these items need to be crafted. For the Assembler, you need: 10 Aluminum Rods, 10 Stone, 4 Plant Oil. For the Grinder, you need: 20 Stone, 3 Copper Wire, 5 Copper Ore.
Where to Find Stone for Clay
The stone deposits around the world are your main source of stone in the world. Use your Spike Saw to break the deposits and collect the stones.
How to Farm Stone With Gravelgourds
The best farming method for stone is to plant Gravelgourds. Unlike Stone deposits, which don’t respawn, you can farm Gravelgourds infinitely whenever you need stone for clay or other uses.
All Clay Recipes and What to Build First
There are two main stations that need clay to be crafted, them being the trader landing and the furnace. Clay is also used for all the brick recipes, which you can use in building in your game to make cozy base buildings.
| Recipe / Construction | Clay Required | Other Materials / Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Clay (Crafting Recipe) | Produces 1 Clay | 1 Sand, crafted in Assembler |
| Furnace | 12 | 12 Wood |
| Merchant Landing | 10 | 2 Bronze Frames, 2 Bronze Electronics |
| Fodder Oven | 10 | 2 Bronze Frames, 1 Bronze Electronics |
| Well | —– | Utility construction |
| Large Plot | —– | Farming construction |
| House | —– | Housing construction |
| Small Wooden Stage | —– | Decorative construction |
| Large Wooden Stage | —– | Decorative construction |
| Brick Fence | —– | Building decoration |
| Woven Garden Wall | —– | Garden decoration |
| Brick Arch | —– | Building construction |
| Brick Corner Wall | —– | Building construction |
| Brick Wall Half | 1 | Modular brick wall |
| Brick Wall 1×1 | 1 | Modular brick wall |
| Brick Wall 2×2 | —– | Large brick wall |
| Brick Wall 2×2 (Door) | 4 | Brick doorway |
| Brick Wall 2×2 (Window) | 4 | Brick window section |
| Brick Corner 26° | 1 | Angled brick corner |
| Brick Corner 26° (Inverted) | 1 | Inverted angled corner |
| Brick Corner 45° | 1 | Angled brick corner |
| Brick Corner 45° (Inverted) | —– | Inverted angled corner |
| Brick Corner 45° Quarter | 1 | Small corner section |
| Brick Corner 45° Big | 2 | Large corner section |
| Coffee Mug | —– | Table decoration |
| Tea Set | —– | Table decoration |
| Garden Gnome | —– | Garden decoration |
| Blue Flower Bed | —– | Garden decoration |
| Red Flower Pot | —– | Flower decoration |
| Yellow Flower Pot | —– | Flower decoration |
| Pink Flower Pot | —– | Flower decoration |
| White and Pink Flower Pot | —– | Flower decoration |
| Blue Flower Pot | —– | Flower decoration |
| Mixed Flower Pot | —– | Flower decoration |
| Basic Plant Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Sparse Plant Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Pointy Plant Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Tall Plant Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Fresh Plant Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Lush Plant Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Bush Pot | —– | Plant decoration |
| Pot Stack | 4 | Stacked pot decoration |
| Small Pot Stack | —– | Stacked pot decoration |
| Alternate Pot Stack | —– | Stacked pot decoration |
How to Automate Clay Production
1.0 replaced the older Automator system with Automation Pipes that can move materials between storage and supported crafting constructs. So a very simple way of automating the process is to put pipes from a stone storage to a grinder making sand, connecting that grinder to a sand storage and then connecting the sand storage to an assembler to make clay, which is also connected to a final clay container.
I haven’t tried automating Gravelgourds yet, but if that can be done, then you can make a full AFK farm. That is, if you don’t run out of energy. Did I mention that pipes use energy?
