So I've been trying my best to figure out just how to work out laddering material qualities and clay feels like one of those insurmountably difficult things, or maybe I'm just too mentally deficient to see obvious and easy solutions to the problem of clay quality.
So we've initially started on a ball clay quality of around 44, built all of our kilns with it, but now we're starting to get into q100 metals, fuel, etc, and this is no longer cutting it. With some good black coal, our bricks come out a little less shit, but still pretty shit. I wish to elevate things, but I find myself hmsting and hmming over the best methods.
- Option 1: Get the potter credo and complete it (ow) and then, tears in my eyes, roam the world looking for some good quality gray clay nodes and ball clay nodes.
- Option 2: Make bone clay, which seems like it would take an agonizingly long time as we'd have to accrue around 350 bones at q100 or above ON TOP of all the other ingredients that go toward decent bone clay (such as finding high quality salt water that won't dick us on soap clay quality and cave clay that also won't dick us, of which we've found a pitifully small amount outside of random quality piles)
- Option 3: Potters clay, which is just option 2 but with extra steps thrown in that may somehow possibly increase the end quality of the clay maybe? This option presents the highest chance of me committing ropeneck by the end of it.
Is there something I'm missing here? Bone clay seems like the best option for quality. I don't think ball clay or gray clay quality goes up high enough that it'd be worth seeking out for the purpose of laddering our stuff, and potters clay seems like a fucking masochistic scam unless you've got some sort of godlike potter's wheel to roid things up with.
I'd appreciate any input as I'm struggling to figure out how other people tackle getting over the limitations of clay.
