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Adds a wide range of new ceramic and brick materials with varied colors and properties, including small adjustments to vanilla ceramics. Plus reactions to produce and purify clay.

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I created this mod as I was not happy with the ugly dark olive color of vanilla ceramics. I wanted to have more variety of colors and properties of ceramics but keep some degree of reality.
I also wanted to have more types of bricks (red bricks should be available) and terracotta statues.
This mod adds a wide range of new ceramic and brick materials with varied colors and properties, including small adjustments to vanilla ceramics (names, colors, material heat and mechanical properties).

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Here are the added ceramic materials, with their corresponding clays and how to make them:

• Yellowware Ceramic - A warm yellow-colored ceramic. Lead-glazed earthenware with a dense, non-porous finish. Inspired by yellowware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Yellowware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay and lead.
  
• Terracotta Ceramic - Rust-colored unglazed earthenware, strong and slightly porous, often used for tiles. Inspired by terracotta[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Terracotta Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay.
  
• Redware Ceramic - A deep scarlet-colored ceramic, commonly used for cheaper earthenware products. Inspired by redware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Redware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay.
  
• Enorware Ceramic - A vibrant azure-colored, tin-glazed earthenware often adorned with cobalt oxide. Inspired by Delftware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Enorware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay, tin, and cobalt/cobaltite.
  
• Whiteware Ceramic - A smooth blue-gray ceramic that's high-quality, non-porous, and durable. Inspired by Shino ware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Whiteware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay, sand, and calcium carbonate (eg calcite).
  
• Creamware Ceramic - A beige-colored salt-glazed stoneware, slightly porous but durable. Inspired by creamware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Creamware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay, (rock) salt, and lead.
  
• Pearlware Ceramic - An ivory-colored porcelain-like ceramic with a fine quality finish. Inspired by pearlware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Pearlware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay, (rock) salt, lead, and cobalt/cobaltite.
  
• Blackware Ceramic - A sleek black-colored polished ceramic, often used for decorative pieces. Inspired by Nizamabad Black Pottery[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Blackware Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay and plant oil.
  
• Marlware Ceramic - A saffron-colored ceramic with a good quality finish - better quality version of standard earthenware. Ancient Egyptian pottery made of - Marl clay[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Desert Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay and calcium carbonate (eg calcite).
  
• Ironware Ceramic - A burnt sienna-colored, iron-rich ceramic. Inspired by iron-enriched ceramics used historically for durability. Made from Ironware Clay. Creating ironware clay requires (earthenware) clay, sand, iron and calcium carbonate.
  
• Graphiteware Ceramic - A gray-colored, graphite-infused ceramic with excellent heat resistance. Inspired by black burnished ware[en.wikipedia.org] and Celtic graphite pottery[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Graphite Clay. Requires (earthenware) clay and graphite.
  
• Greenware Ceramic - An olive-colored ceramic with jade-like properties. Inspired by greenware[en.wikipedia.org]. Made from Greenware Clay. Creating greenware clay requires (earthenware) clay, iron and copper.
  
• Blemish Ceramic - A fern green-colored ceramic, of lower quality with high porosity and poor mechanical properties. Used for simple construction materials. Inspired by rougher, low-grade earthenware. Made from Contaminated Clay or Paper Clay. Paper clay requires (earthenware) clay and plant fiber (1 clay boulder -> 2 paper clay boulders). Contaminated clay is a side product of other clay preparation reactions.

In addition to the new ceramics, this mod introduces two key reactions:

• Produce Clay: This reaction allows the production of various clays from raw materials like claystone, sand, ash and milk of lime. It can produce clay or contaminated clay.
  
• Purify Clay: This reaction helps purify clay (in theory any fired-mat boulder, in practice the contaminated clay was in mind) using milk of lime, producing higher-quality clay (clay or fireclay) and sometimes additional byproducts such as kaolinite or sand.

I decided to create clay per ceramic type (instead of just reactions requiring additional ingredients and a clay) - with that, the mod is quite transparent for other mods allowing to produce new things from clay.
You can think of the new specific clays as well-prepared ingredients for kiln reactions instead of just clay boulders.
I created the mod to be open to the existence of metal powders, calcium carbonate, cobalt etc. The Steam mod setup has info about those mods, but you can play without them - just some reactions will never be enabled or not work correctly.
Here is a list of mods that this mod takes into account:

• Grind bones and shells into flux (and more) - provides calcium carbonate as powder (from bones)
  
• Stained Glass - provides various metals as powders
  
• Cobalt Crafting - adds cobalt as a metal

I also decided that for most clay production reactions, the chemistry skill will be used. I think it better reflects the more complex knowledge required to create some of the rarer ceramics.

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• Missing related mods will make cobalt-required actions available and just not require cobalt.

I designed it to be compatible with Useful kiln mod but likely other pottery mods will work as well.
The purifying clay reaction also creates a nice synergy with Sand & Clay Anywhere .
Feel free to use this mod as a resource or a dependency in your mods.

• 1.00 - work started
  
• 1.02 - tests
  
• 1.03 - adding termal and mechanical properties
  
• 1.04 - colors ajustments
  
• 1.05, 06, 07 - fixes

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