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Complete Pottery Guide for Project Zomboid Build 42
This guide details everything you need to know about the pottery skill in Project Zomboid Build 42, including tools, materials, workstations, and how to level up. Pottery is crucial for creating tools and materials that enhance other skills like masonry, metalworking, and glass making.
1. 🛠️ Introduction to Pottery and Necessary Tools
- ✅ Pottery improves efficiency in masonry, metalworking, and glass making.
- ✅ Necessary tools: hammer, saw, lighter, and clay sculpting tool.
00:00 - 00:41
1. 🛠️ Introduction to Pottery and Necessary Tools
- ✅ Pottery improves efficiency in masonry, metalworking, and glass making.
- ✅ Necessary tools: hammer, saw, lighter, and clay sculpting tool.
00:42 - 01:27
2. 🧰 Where to Find Pottery Tools
- ✅ Hammer and saw: hardware stores, warehouses, garages, basements, and sheds.
- ✅ Lighters: survival shops, kitchens, gas stations, or on zombies.
- ✅ Clay sculpting tool: cabinets, kitchens, or warehouses, or create it with the carving skill (knife, small handle, and level one in carving).
01:28 - 01:46
3. 🧱 Essential Materials for Pottery
- ✅ Materials: planks, nails, clay, sand, water, and fuel.
- ✅ Planks: sawing logs (3 planks per log).
- ✅ Nails: hardware stores, warehouses, and lumber mills.
01:47 - 02:40
4. 🏺 How to Obtain Clay in Project Zomboid
- ✅ Forage in forests during or after rain.
- ✅ Clay sacks in school halls (8 units per sack).
- ✅ Collect on the banks of bodies of water (reddish squares). You need an empty sack and a shovel.
02:41 - 03:13
5. 🏖️ Obtaining Sand and Water
- ✅ Sand: Similar to clay, collected in sandy areas with a sack and shovel.
- ✅ Water: Collect from any body of water with a container (pot, bucket, bottle). You need at least 250 ml per use.
03:14 - 03:41
6. 🔥 Fuel for Pottery
- ✅ Fuel: logs and wood charcoal.
- ✅ Logs: felling trees.
- ✅ Wood charcoal: burning two logs in a burn pile (requires shovel and construction from the menu).
03:42 - 04:29
7. 💡 Requirements for Pottery
- ✅ Lighting: sunlight, flashlight, or spotlight.
- ✅ Workstations.
04:30 - 06:04
8. 🔨 Workstation: Flat Surface and Mold Creation
- ✅ Use a table or desk to create molds.
- ✅ Creating molds grants experience in carpentry, not pottery.
- ✅ Carpentry level 0: molds for bricks, tiles, and roof tiles (saw, hammer, plank, and nail).
- ✅ Carpentry level 2: molds for metal bar, metal ingot, crucible, blacksmith's anvil, and screw parts (saw, hammer, nail, and planks).
06:05 - 07:16
9. ⚙️ Workstation: Hand Press
- ✅ Construction: hammer, four planks, and four nails.
- ✅ Creates clay bricks and tiles faster.
- ✅ Creates clay roof tiles, clay molds for metal bar and metal ingot (wooden mold and one unit of clay, 5 experience points).
- ✅ Clay mold for blacksmith's anvil (wooden mold and eight units of clay, 20 experience points).
07:17 - 09:00
10. 🧰 Workstation: Potter's Wheel
- ✅ Construction: hammer, four planks, four nails, a stone wheel, and a small stone wheel (masonry).
- ✅ Level 0: cup, pipe segment, bowl, and ceramic pot (250 ml of water and clay). Cup and segment (1 clay), bowl (2 clay), pot (5 clay). 15 experience points.
- ✅ Tea cup and mortar (sack of sand and clay). Tea cup (1 clay), mortar (2 clay). 15 experience points.
- ✅ Level 1: large crucible and small crucible (sack of sand and clay). Small (1 clay), large (2 clay). 25 experience points.
- ✅ Level 5: earthenware jug (250 ml of water and three units of clay, 40 experience points).
09:01 - 10:42
11. 🏺 Workstation: Pottery Table
- ✅ Construction: hammer, four planks, four nails, a sheet, and level five in carpentry.
- ✅ Level 0: mold for the sheet (clay sculpting tool and three units of clay, 15 experience points).
- ✅ Level 2: glass blowing tube (250 ml of water and two units of clay, 35 experience points).
- ✅ Level 3: ceramic pipe (clay sculpting tool and one unit of clay, 40 experience points).
10:43 - 11:54
12. 🔥 Firing Ceramics
- ✅ Build a pottery oven (primitive or advanced) from the construction menu (masonry palette and 20 units of clay).
- ✅ You need the uncooked clay piece, a lighter, and fuel.
- ✅ The pipe is only cooked in the primitive oven, the anvil mold in the advanced oven.
- ✅ Primitive oven: 3 bricks or 4 tiles. Advanced oven: 6 bricks or 8 tiles.
11:55 - 13:21
13. 📈 How to Level Up the Pottery Skill
- ✅ Read pottery skill books to get experience multipliers.
- ✅ Produce bricks and tiles en masse.
- ✅ The artisan trait gives one level in pottery (not highly recommended).