Soft clay

Soft clay is a free-to-play item, with a high alchemy value of 1 coins. At least 9 monsters drop it. The easiest is Cockroach drone (level 4, 1/43,690.67); the best rate is Seren spirit, at 1/16, about 2.5 per kill.

“Clay soft enough to mould. Used in Crafting (1).”

Free-to-playTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 1 gp

Updated 9 October 2026. Sources from the RuneScape Wiki's drop, shop and recipe data (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), checked 2026-10-09. Item sprite © Jagex.

Ironman verdict

You can also make it yourself: it takes 1 Crafting and gives 1 Crafting XP, using Clay. There are 2 other recipes below. Other sources include Ice troll grunt, Ice troll female, Young impling and Baby impling, plus 4 more listed below. Where the materials come from: Clay (dropped by Imp (level 5)). Making ten takes 10 × Clay and gives 10 Crafting XP. 152 recipes use Soft clay, including Accursed urn (unfired), Annakarl teleport (item) and Ardougne teleport (item). Soft clay is available on free-to-play worlds too. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 1 coins.

At a glance

Members: No (free-to-play)
Tradeable: Yes, but not for Ironmen
High alch: 1 coins
Monster drops: 9
Shops: None
Recipes: 3
Used in: 152 recipes

Monster drops

Dropped by	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Rare drop table	-	35–45 (noted)	4/64
Seren spirit	-	35–45 (noted)	1/16
TokHaar-Hur (Fight Cauldron)	112	5 (noted)	1/8
Greater demon (elite)	92	35–45 (noted)	1/196.48
Elite rune dragon	130	35–45 (noted)	1/160
TzHaar-Hur	86	3 (noted)	8/129
Cockroach droneEasiest	4	35–45 (noted)	1/43,690.67
Cave bug	6	35–45 (noted)	1/52,428.8
Crawling hand	6	35–45 (noted)	1/131,072