How Do You Get Clay Acorns In Skyfactory?

Skyfactory is a popular Minecraft modpack that centers around skyblock-style gameplay. The main premise of Skyfactory is that the player starts on a single block of dirt in the void with only a tree sapling and an achievement book.

From this humble beginning, the player must use various mods and progression paths to build out a full base and infrastructure. Some key mods included in Skyfactory that facilitate this gameplay are:

• Ex Nihilo – Adds methods of generating resources from nothing, like Sieving dirt and dust for materials.
• Extra Utilities – Provides early-game power and automation options.
• Tinkers’ Construct – Allows crafting powerful customized tools and weapons.
• Applied Energistics – Provides ME systems for managing items and autocrafting.

A main feature of Skyfactory is a questing system that provides goals and advancement through the modpack. By completing quests, players unlock new items and progression paths. This provides guidance and direction.

Overall, Skyfactory provides a unique sandbox experience focused on building up infrastructure from very limited starting resources. Automation and progression are core focuses of the gameplay as the player expands their base out further across the void.

Importance of Clay Acorns

Clay acorns are one of the most vital resources in Skyfactory. They are used to craft clay, which has many important uses:

• Crafting clay barrels, which are essential storage containers needed throughout the modpack.
• Making clay casts for metals like copper, tin, aluminum, etc. Casts allow you to create metal blocks, gears, and rods.
• Crafting porcelain, which is needed for some higher tier machines and parts.
• Making refractory bricks for furnaces and blast furnaces.
• Crafting clay buckets, which are required before you can make infinite water sources.

Having a renewable and automated source of clay is crucial in Skyfactory. Without plenty of clay, you’ll struggle to progress and scale up your modpack base. Clay acorns are the gateway to unlimited clay production.

Finding a Clay Sapling

Clay saplings are key to obtaining a renewable source of clay acorns in Skyfactory. These saplings can be found in loot bags that generate naturally on the map. Breaking grass and leaves has a chance to drop loot bags, which can contain resources like clay saplings.

Another method is crafting loot bags yourself. Use 4 string surrounding a chest in a crafting table to create a loot bag. Place the loot bag down and right click it to reveal the contents. There’s a chance a clay sapling will be inside.

Alternatively, clay saplings have a small chance to generate in reward bags from quests and mob drops. Completing quests and defeating mobs may reward you with loot bags containing clay saplings.

Once you find a clay sapling, you can grow your own renewable source of clay acorns, a vital crafting ingredient in Skyfactory.

Planting the Clay Sapling

Once you have obtained a clay sapling, you will need to plant it in a suitable location in order to grow it into a full clay tree. Here are the steps for properly planting and growing your clay sapling:

First, choose an open location that has a 3×3 space available. This allows room for the sapling to grow into a full tree. Dig holes in the center block of the 3×3 area.

Place the clay sapling inside the hole. Make sure there is dirt under the sapling. If the sapling is not planted in dirt, it will not grow.

The sapling will take some time to grow into a full clay tree. You can speed up the process by using bone meal on the sapling. Simply right click the sapling with bone meal and it will rapidly grow into a tree.

Make sure the area has adequate light. Clay trees need a light level of at least 9 in order to grow. Place torches if needed.

Keep the area around the tree free of blocks so that the leaves and branches can grow unobstructed. If the sapling is planted too close to other objects, the tree will not fully develop.

Once the sapling has fully grown, it will produce clay acorns like a normal tree produces regular acorns. You can now harvest the acorns by breaking the leaves.

Upgrading to a Clay Tree

Once you have planted the Clay Sapling and it has grown into a small tree, it’s time to upgrade it into a full Clay Tree that will produce even more Clay Acorns. To do this, you’ll need to craft Clay Soil using a Water Bucket and Clay Dust. Place the Clay Soil as a 3×3 square around the base of the Clay Sapling. Provide the sapling with additional resources like water and bone meal to accelerate its growth.

Over time, nurturing the sapling in this enriched Clay Soil will cause it to slowly transform into a full-sized Clay Tree with spreading branches. This mature Clay Tree will regularly drop increased amounts of Clay Acorns from its foliage, which can be collected around the base of the tree. Make sure to give the Clay Tree enough space to grow, as the area of loaded chunks around it will determine how often acorns drop.

Automating Acorns Collection

Once your clay trees are producing a steady supply of acorns, you’ll want to set up a system to automatically collect and store the acorns. This eliminates the need to manually harvest the trees and makes collecting large amounts of acorns much easier.

The simplest automated collection system involves placing chests or barrels around the base of your clay trees. Then place hoppers next to the chests/barrels pointing towards them. The hoppers will pick up any items on the ground (the acorns) and deposit them into the storage containers.

For larger clay tree farms, you can place vacuum hoppers or item collectors above your trees. These will pick up dropped items in an area around them. Funnel the vacuum hoppers/collectors into pipes or hoppers that lead to your main storage system.

Make sure to encase any transport pipes in something like glass or cobblestone so acorns don’t spill out. Also give your storage system enough room to hold large amounts of acorns.

With an automated collection system like this, you can come back after a while to find chests full of clay acorns ready for use in crafting or expanding your farm.

Multiply Clay Acorns

Once you have a steady supply of clay acorns coming in, you’ll want to multiply them to get even more. There are a couple ways to do this:

Chickens – Chickens will eat acorns and occasionally lay eggs containing acorns. Build a pen and breed some chickens, then toss acorns in for them to eat. Check back later for acorn eggs.

Bonsai Pots – Craft bonsai pots and place acorns inside. Over time, the bonsai pot will duplicate the acorn. Make several pots to multiply your acorns quickly.

With a large chicken farm and multiple bonsai pots, you can take a small starting supply of clay acorns and increase it exponentially. This is a great renewable way to get all the clay you need for future projects and crafting.

Alternative Sources

While clay acorns are the easiest way to obtain clay in Skyfactory, there are a few other methods you can use:

Sieves – You can get small amounts of clay dust by sifting gravel, sand or dust through a sieve. Any tier of sieve will work but higher tiers have a better chance of dropping clay.

Hammers – Using a hammer on gravel ores and stones can also produce clay dust. A cactus hammer works best.

Trade – Trading sticks with villagers can sometimes result in clay as part of the trade.

Mystical Agriculture – Once you have a mob farm going, you can create clay seeds using mystical agriculture. Planting and harvesting these seeds produces clay essence which can be crafted into clay.

Clay Consumers – Some machines and processes like the Pulverizer and Slurry Maker produce clay as a byproduct when processing other materials. Feed them renewable resources to passively generate some clay.

Storing and Using Clay

Once you have collected a good amount of clay acorns, you’ll want to make use of them. Clay acorns and clay blocks can be used to craft a variety of useful items in Skyfactory.

For storage, I recommend making Clay Chests. These chests can store much more than normal chests. To make a Clay Chest, place 8 clay blocks in a chest pattern in the crafting grid. For even more storage, upgrade to Iron Chests using iron ingots.

Here are some items you can craft with clay:

• Clay Buckets – Made with 3 clay blocks, used to carry liquids like water and lava.
• Clay Bowls – Made with 3 clay blocks. Used as food vessels.
• Clay Jars – Made with 5 clay blocks. Used to store more honey and juices.
• Clay Balls – Made with 4 clay blocks. Used as ammo for the Slingshot.
• Flower Pots – Made with 3 clay blocks and 1 flower. Used to decorate.

As you progress in Skyfactory, you’ll find more and more uses for your stockpile of clay. Turning clay acorns into useful clay items saves resources and is very rewarding!

Conclusion

In summary, clay acorns are an important resource in Skyfactory that allow you to make porcelain, bricks, and other clay items. The easiest way to obtain them is by finding and growing a clay sapling into a full clay tree. Make sure to place fluid placers and vacuum hoppers around the tree to automatically collect the acorns as they drop. You can speed up the process by upgrading to a bonsai pot and using acorn multiplication methods. While clay trees are the best approach, you can also get small amounts of clay acorns from loot bags and sifting dirt. Just a single clay sapling can provide all the clay acorns you need once fully grown and automated. With a steady clay acorn supply, you’ll be able to craft and build to your heart’s content in Skyfactory.

Some final tips: Plant your clay sapling on dirt, not sand. Use brick shears to harvest leaves and saplings without breaking the tree. Make sure to use item collectors optimized for collecting acorns. And don’t forget to store your clay acorns properly so they don’t despawn. With smart farming and automation, you’ll have more than enough clay acorns for all your Skyfactory builds and crafting recipes.