Reclaiming Clay Items

[MinionTwo]

Since the potter credo quests have us make unfired clay items i would like to suggest a new large item: Clay Bin.

In mundane pottery, the method of reclaiming clay is to soak it in water until it dissolves into a liquid called slip, then straining it to get larger impurities out such as sand or foreign matter. then it gets laid out on anything from a normal table to a plaster slab so that it can dry to a workable consistency. after that you have to wedge it(like kneading dough) in order to get all the air out.

with that information, I would like to suggest the following on the Clay bin:
The clay bin would be designed as essentially a table beside a barrel.
It would act as a workstation, it could use the empty handed dig animation or possibly the dig, turn, and drop animation from landscaping.
It would have a reservoir for water and pull unfired clay items out of your inventory and convert them to x number of acre clay.
Alternatively, it could operate similar to the way the compost bins do and allow any clay or unfired clay item to be put into it and will produce 1 acre clay every so often.

I chose acre clay because it is possible to exhaust the acre clay deposits while all other clay sources refill(ball, pit), are foraged(gray, cave), or created(Bone, Potter's).

[jorb]

So basically you want to be able to reverse unfired clay items back to clay?

Idk, the problem with reclaiming mechanics is that we kind of need to track the inputs in a nasty way. Not thrilled.

[Blueberry]

I was thinking about this today I have an idea. If by 'tracking the inputs' you mean what type of clay is used, don't bother with that. Make it like a compost bin where something new is created. It could be called Agateware, which refers to pottery made with two or more clays with contrasting colors. The clay bins could take unfired works as well as raw clay.



Or just make a solid colored Mixed Clay.

Of course if you meant the amount of clay used then just ignore me lol.