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[Kalalification]

Okay, so I'm in my fort and I have a kiln and plenty of kaolinite, and was wanting to start up a ceramics industry. After looking at the wiki I determined that I needed to designate an activity zone and label it for clay collection in order to do this. Unfortunately, in my game there is no clay collection zone. I've got sand, hospital, dump, pit/pond, meeting area, water source, and fishing. No clay. How do I fix this?

[JmzLost]

Kaolinite is mined (it's a stone), not collected like other clays.  As long as you have some mined, the kiln will let you "make clay (whatever)".  Kaolinite turns into porcelain, which is very valuable, so if you have any other clay on the map you may want to train a potter with that, first.  Setting kaolinite as an economic stone (z->stone->kaolinite is red) will stop masons and mechanics from using it, but NOT potters.  Forbidding all kaolinite will stop even the potters from using it, then unforbid it when they have some skill. 

Clay can be gathered from any soil that has "clay" in the name except "silty clay loam" and "sandy clay loam", the only ones with 3 words in the name.

JMZ

[Nidokoenig]

This almost sounds silly, but if it's not in the list of zone types I have to ask, which version are you using? Pottery is quite new.

[Kalalification]

This almost sounds silly, but if it's not in the list of zone types I have to ask, which version are you using? Pottery is quite new.

31.18, I believe.

Also, to the first poster, I can't assign any jobs from the kiln. It says there is no access to the required materials, despite the fact that there is tons of loose kaolinite only feet away, and none of it is forbidden.

[Minnakht]

31.18 doesn't have pottery yet.

But when you port over to a newer one, like 31.25, then it'll be like that. Gathering clay is just like gathering sand, but the blocks of clay don't require bags, instead weighing like 110+ mango. And you can build workshops and the like out of it, like it was stone!

[Kalalification]

31.18 doesn't have pottery yet.

So what's the point of the kiln?

[Minnakht]

31.18 doesn't have pottery yet.

So what's the point of the kiln?

Well... gypsum plaster, for one... and some other marginal uses.

EDIT: Checked. Potash into pearlash, too, for clear glass, and gypsum into powder for hospitals.

And in the new versions, also pottery.