Clay Ball

Clay is the item received after mining clay blocks. Each clay block yields four clay.

As a Crafting Ingredient
Clay can be crafted together to reform clay blocks or smelted in a furnace to create clay bricks. Clay bricks can then be crafted into brick blocks.

Trivia

 * Pre-1.8 Clay was a rare luxury material. 1.8 made it very common. Brick blocks are now a common building material.