How do you get clay?

[juul]

Im trying to get clay for a mold, but there is no source on the internet or anywhere.

[Swinging From Nosehair]

I find the easiest is to get to a river bank and look for small stretch that is yellowish & cracked. Bit different to the normal bank. Dig.
You can also dig it near surface inland (pleasant countryside biome) but not as obvious.

[EvilKlown]

Dig by any water source usually rivers (most common source), lakes and puddles work too. Some times you will get clay randomly from normal dirt too. You can occassionally find a vein of clay away from water too but that seems very random.

[Blind Fury]

dig under the sand next to the rivers

[♣candlebox♣]

Also the sides of a cliff if you can find one, it will be pretty apparent in the color difference. I have also found some showing through the grass on a hillside.

[Aragon]

I found ALOT (pure accident) when i started a mine in the wasteland...first layer destroyed stone...and then..wohoo surprize..clay, clay and even more clay..a big bubble of clay..and below normal stone.
:-)

[breezingthrough]

Desert biome is full of clay. The only two biomes I struggle finding clay in is wood lands (green and winter). Plus the city (not waste but full buildings). I found clay was one the harder ones to find, until I learned to tell what it looks like.

[Aim@Me (RedProtos)]

thing is every guide says to dig ... to make a shovel and pickaxe u need the mold, which u need clay for ... so how do you dig ?? (its why im even looking for clay in the first place)

[Aim@Me (RedProtos)]

reposting cause i failed to hit the subscribe button

[darkrajin]

If you're trying to make clay molds, you can make clay from corn. Otherwise yup digging, I found plenty of patches around the corn farm.

[AlexandrianKnight]

You can also dig with the stone axe, which does not require any sort of mold to make.

[Brian9824]

As others have said stone axe can let you harvest clay, wood, etc easily. Once you find a cliff and look at it you will easily be able to tell what clay looks like.

[FightinWelsh]

I can normally get lumps of clay inside 5 minutes of starting a new game. riverbanks are the best. dig with a stone axe like others have said and pop it in the center of the crafting window. each clay makes like 6 or 8 lumps.

[Hellrazer001]

Corn Flour and Water also make Clay, You can turn a Corn Cob into Corn Flour and make Clay by adding water, some areas are very hard to find real clay, but it is usually near a river " orange/Brown dirt " or up to 4 blocks down digging in some areas.

[Aim@Me (RedProtos)]

i managed to start hammering with my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ stone axe and solved the problem and somewhat progressed like 10000% faster , thanks guys but the lack of info was shocking :p (i searched everyywhereeeee)

[Hellrazer001]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von คเ๓@๓є♪ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻):

i managed to start hammering with my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ stone axe and solved the problem and somewhat progressed like 10000% faster , thanks guys but the lack of info was shocking :p (i searched everyywhereeeee)

This helps heaps.
http://7daystodie.gamepedia.com/Crafting