You need a shovel
- Craft Iron Shovel at Smithy T1 (4 iron + 2 wood).
- Equip in main-hand. Stone tools cannot dig clay nodes.
Where to dig
- Driftwood Cove river bank — 6 nodes along the southern bank.
- PT9 Foothills creek — 10 nodes, look for orange tinted earth.
- Salt Marsh pond edge — risky, 8 nodes around the toad arena.
Turning clay into bricks
- Build a Brick Kiln (20 stone + 10 clay + 4 charcoal).
- Insert clay + 1 charcoal per 4 bricks.
- Fire — yields bricks in 90 seconds.