Graveyard Keeper 2: How to Make Pottery for the Twins Quest

In Graveyard Keeper 2, the twins on the opposite riverbank have the merchant’s fishing rod. They accept only pottery in exchange, but the request never tells you how to obtain it. Clay Plates require an unlocked technology, a workstation you must construct, and clay that you must excavate.

Quick answer: Unlock Pottery I with 10 Red and 5 Green Tech Points, then construct a Potter’s Wheel using 1 Piece of Stone plus 2 Wooden Planks. Dig up 4 Clay, and use the recipe twice to produce 6 Clay Plates.

Clay Plate requirements in Graveyard Keeper 2

Every part of this chain depends on the one before it, so it pays to line up all four requirements before you start walking back and forth between your yard and the clay pit.

Requirement	Cost or detail
Pottery I technology	10 Red Tech Points, 5 Green Tech Points
Potter’s Wheel	2 Wooden Planks, 1 Piece of Stone
Clay	4 total for the full order of six plates
Tools	Axe, pickaxe, and a shovel for digging

Clay excavation falls under Building and requires Building mastery 2. Since your starting rusty axe and pickaxe provide that level, a new save meets the requirement immediately.

Unlock Pottery I in the Building tech tree

Neither the Clay Plate recipe nor the Potter’s Wheel blueprint exists until you buy the technology. Red and Green Tech Points accumulate as you perform actions tied to those two fields, so if you are short, keep working around the base and come back.

Open the menu and switch to the Tech Trees tab. Select the Building section, which is the leftmost branch.

At the crafting board outside your house, purchase the Pottery I node for 10 Red and 5 Green Tech Points. The purchase unlocks the Clay Plate recipe and supplies the Potter’s Wheel blueprint there.

Unlocking Pottery in the Tech Tree — The Building branch of the Tech Trees menu, where Pottery I sits alongside the rest of the construction nodes. Shown at 00:32 in AlphaZin’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Build the Potter’s Wheel in your yard

The wheel itself is cheap on paper, but neither of its two materials is something you pick up off the ground. Both come out of short production chains you may not have set up yet.

Material	Made at	Recipe
Board	Sawhorse	Logs from chopped trees
Wooden Plank	Woodworking Workbench I	1 Board per plank
Wood Wedge	Chopping Spot	Short Logs
Piece of Stone	Stonemason’s Workbench	2 Stone + 4 Wood Wedges = 4 pieces

Logs come from chopping trees with the axe, and Stone comes from boulders with the pickaxe. Clearing the trees and rocks nearest your yard does two jobs at once, since it gives you the raw materials and opens up building slots for the wheel.

Both the Woodworking Workbench I and the Stonemason’s Workbench need Bronze Nails, one of the fiddlier early materials to source. Get those in hand before you commit to the chain.

With two planks and one Piece of Stone in your inventory, open the crafting board in the yard, pick Potter’s Wheel from the craft tab, and drop it into any free slot nearby. The Stonemason’s recipe produces four pieces at once, so the leftovers carry over to other early builds.

Where to dig Clay in Graveyard Keeper 2

Head southeast from your home, past the small ruins, and into the Inquisition Base. There is a large open clay pit in the ground before the cliffside, easy to spot once you are looking for a sinkhole rather than a rock node. Clay also turns up around the Riverside area if you happen to be over there.

Walk up to the pit and press the interaction prompt to start digging. You need a shovel equipped, and the Rusty Shovel you carry early on is enough.

Locating and digging clay — The dig prompt at the clay pit and the raw Clay item it produces. Shown at 00:35 in Quick Tips’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Keep digging until you have at least 4 Clay. Each dig yields four, and the pit refills immediately, so a single visit covers the whole quest with clay to spare.

Gathering Clay — One dig at the pit returns four Clay, and the deposit is available again right away. Shown at 00:14 in The Lost Noob’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Digging drains energy, and working through a low bar builds fatigue. Carry food if you plan to stockpile clay for bricks or urns in the same trip.

Craft six Clay Plates at the Potter’s Wheel

Carry the clay back north to your yard and stand at the Potter’s Wheel. This is the only station that produces plates, and the recipe needs Building mastery 2 to run.

Gathering Clay and Crafting Plates — Clay in hand and the wheel built, the last step is queuing the recipe. Shown at 01:04 in AlphaZin’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Interact with the wheel to open its crafting queue and select Clay Plates. Each cycle converts 2 Clay into 3 Clay Plates and takes a short amount of time to finish.

Crafting Clay Plates — The Potter's Wheel queue, showing the Clay Plate order and the clay it consumes. Shown at 00:28 in JA Guides Gaming’s video. Image: Lazy Bear Games

Queue the recipe a second time. Two cycles and four clay give you the six plates the twins asked for, with no reason to overproduce unless you want pottery for later projects.

Deliver the plates and confirm the quest completed

Cross the river again and talk to the twins at the same spot where they first asked for pottery. Handing over the six plates closes this stage of the quest and they give you the fishing rod on the spot, with no coins or extra items to pay. Once the rod is in your inventory, the exchange is done and fishing opens up, along with any objectives that need fish.

If the Clay Plate recipe is missing

Receiving the twins’ request does not unlock anything on its own, and going back to talk to them repeatedly will not push the quest along. If you cannot see Clay Plates anywhere, check these two things.

Open the Tech Trees menu and confirm Pottery I is genuinely purchased, not just visible in the Building branch.
Make sure you are opening the Potter’s Wheel and not another workbench, since no other station carries the recipe.

With the technology bought and the wheel standing in your yard, nothing else gates the plates. Four clay from the pit southeast of home covers the entire order, and the whole detour takes a couple of in-game trips once the woodworking and stonemason benches are running.