Pottery Wheel
| Pottery Wheel | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Workstation |
| Type | Workstation |
| Build Menu | Pottery |
| Build Skill | None |
| Build Tools | Claw Hammer |
| Health | 100 (+20 per skill level) |
| Recipes | 10 |
| Crafts | Pottery |
| Location | Built |
The Pottery Wheel is a spinning wheel for shaping Clay into round vessels. The game describes it as a station used to turn Clay into objects like bowls and pots.
It is the heart of the Pottery skill. Bowls, mugs, plates, pots, jars and crucibles all start here as unfired clay. A kiln then fires them into finished ceramics. The wheel comes early in the craft, since most first pieces need no Pottery skill. It also matters for Blacksmithing, because the clay crucibles for smelting are thrown here. The survivor builds the wheel from wood, nails and two stone wheels. The game also has a modern version of the wheel with the same recipes.
How to Build Pottery Wheel
The build recipe is Build Pottery Wheel, under Pottery in the build menu. It takes four Plank, four Nails, one Stone Wheel and one Small Stone Wheel. A hammer is needed and is kept. The recipe is known from the start.
The finished wheel has 100 health. Each point of the builder's skill adds 20 more.
The Build Pottery Wheel recipe is in the Pottery build menu. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claw Hammer | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Hammer
|
| Plank | 
|
4x | No | /additem Base.Plank
|
| Nails | 
|
4x | No | /additem Base.Nails
|
| Stone Wheel | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.StoneWheel
|
| Small Stone Wheel | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.StoneWheelSmall
|
How to Use Pottery Wheel
Every sculpt is a recipe at the wheel. Clay is the main input for all of them. Most pieces also take a small splash of water from a container.
The teacup, the mortar and pestle and both crucibles take a Sack of Sand instead of water.
Each piece comes off the wheel as unfired clay and must go into a Small Kiln or Large Kiln to become usable.
Crafting Recipes
The first pieces need no skill. Sculpt Bowl, Sculpt Mug, Sculpt Plate and Sculpt Clay Teacup make simple tableware. Sculpt Clay Pot makes a larger pot that fires into a Ceramic Pot. Sculpt Pipe Segment and Sculpt Mortar And Pestle round out the early list. Each gives a steady amount of Pottery experience.
At Pottery level 1 the crucibles open up. Sculpt Crucible makes a Large Clay Crucible (Unfired). Sculpt Small Ceramic Crucible makes the small one. Fired crucibles carry molten metal and glass at the furnace, so these two matter most to a smith. They also give more experience than the tableware.
At Pottery level 5 Sculpt Jar becomes available. It makes a Clay Jar (Unfired) that fires into a Ceramic Jar. It gives the most experience of any piece at the wheel.
Every recipe made at the Pottery Wheel is listed with what it uses up, the tools it hands back and the skill it asks for. A "Yes" under Learned means the recipe has to be learned before it shows up.
| Name | Image | Recipe | Crafting Materials | Tools | Skill | Learned | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Bowl (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Bowl |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.ClayBowlUnfired
|
| Clay Pot (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Clay Pot |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.ClayPotUnfired
|
| Clay Teacup (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Clay Teacup |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.CeramicTeacupUnfired
|
| Clay Mortar and Pestle (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Mortar And Pestle |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.CeramicMortarandPestleUnfired
|
| Clay Mug (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Mug |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.ClayMugUnfired
|
| Clay Pipe Segment (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Pipe Segment |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.ClayPipeSegmentUnfired
|
| Clay Plate (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Plate |
|
- | Pottery: 0 | No | /additem Base.ClayPlateUnfired
|
| Large Clay Crucible (Unfired) | 
|
Sculpt Crucible |
|
- | Pottery: 1 | No | /additem Base.CeramicCrucibleUnfired
|
| Small Clay Crucible (Unfired) |
|
Sculpt Small Ceramic Crucible |
|
- | Pottery: 1 | No | /additem Base.CeramicCrucibleSmallUnfired
|
| Clay Jar (Unfired) |
|
Sculpt Jar |
|
- | Pottery: 5 | No | /additem Base.ClayJarUnfired
|
Notes
- The build tooltip reads: used to turn Clay into objects like bowls and pots.
- Every piece comes off unfired, so build a kiln close by.
- Crucibles need Pottery level 1 and are the link from pottery to smelting.
- Sculpt Jar is the best experience at the wheel once Pottery level 5 is reached.
- Keep a Sack of Sand handy for teacups, crucibles and the mortar and pestle.
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