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What is Clay Ball in Minecraft?

A clay ball is a small, soft lump of gray clay that you get from mining clay blocks. On its own, it is not a block you can place, but it is a very important crafting ingredient. Its main purpose is to be cooked in a furnace to create bricks, which are then used to make the classic and beautiful brick blocks for building. Clay balls are the first step in creating sturdy and nice looking houses, fireplaces, and pathways. For any player who enjoys building, gathering clay balls is a key part of getting the materials for some of the best looking structures in the game.

How to get Clay Ball in Minecraft

The main way to get a clay ball is by breaking a clay block. Clay is a smooth, light gray block that is most often found at the bottom of rivers, lakes, swamps, and oceans. You can also find big patches of it in the lush caves biome. When you break a clay block with your hand or any tool, it will drop four clay balls. Using a shovel is the fastest way to break it. If you use a shovel enchanted with Fortune, you can get even more clay balls from a single block. If you use a tool with the Silk Touch enchantment, the clay block will drop itself instead of the clay balls.

How to use Clay Ball in Minecraft

The most important use for a clay ball is to smelt it in a furnace. Placing a clay ball in a furnace will cook it into a single brick. You can then use these bricks to craft other items. The most common recipe is to combine four bricks in a 2x2 square to make a brick block. You can also use three bricks in a 'V' shape to craft a flower pot. If you want to store your clay balls or use them for building, you can also craft four clay balls back into a full clay block by placing them in a 2x2 square in a crafting grid.

How to craft Clay Ball in Minecraft

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What can Clay Ball make in Minecraft

Brick

Clay

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.