Crafting

Crafting is a skill which enables you to produce items in various materials to use or trade. It can be a supporting skill for cooking, if you wish to cook items other than fish. It is strongly supported by mining and smithing, in the production of gold and silver jewelry, though these items are decorative rather than functional, until enchanted by magic.

Clay Crafting
After mining clay and softening it with with a bucket of water, you can craft clay cookware at the pottery hut in the Barbarian Village. If you mine the clay in the Dwarven Mine, then the nearby Monastery fountains are probably the closest water source. Carrying more than one water container enable you to take advantage of a new feature, where they will all be filled, but preparing the softened clay is still a tedious task.