How to Make Clay in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make Clay in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Clay recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 4 Clay Balls in a Crafting Table to make 1 Clay.

The 2 × 2 pattern is small enough to craft in the 2 × 2 grid of your inventory, no crafting table needed.
Each craft uses 4 ingredient items and produces 1 Clay. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 256 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Clay

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Clay. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.