Talk:Brick of Mud

Question

How do we know that this exists if there are none?--Eloc 15:11, 29 March 2007 (EDT)

Apparently, Artisans will offer to craft Clay Bricks from Bricks of Mud... I think they're tagged wrong - they must be the RAREST crafting material of all, not common lol Fox 15:15, 29 March 2007 (EDT)

you're right, this can - in fact - not be called a >common< material! xD —ZerphaThe Improver 10:56, 26 April 2007 (EDT)

Rarer than an ecto 0.o Mud?....AWESOME! Quazark Zeklar

Or it just haven't been insert into the game File:Tomoko's Cookie.jpg Tomoko 11:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Gwen stole all the bricks! :o :P ₪₪ JOSəPH ₪₪ 06:45, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Mud

→ moved from User talk:Gaile Gray

Whats with the Brick of Mud? Will there be any use for them? Tomoko 20:36, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

That's an oft-asked question. As I've said before, no uses have been announced and it's rather unlikely that there will be uses in the future, although not entirely impossible. -- Gaile 22:53, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I think I will place this directly on the Brick of Mud page, so that others can see the answer, too. (Well, "the answer" such as it is. :) ) -- Gaile 22:56, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Then why not completely remove them from the game and put them back when you make a wet mud contest mini game orso :P Tomoko 20:31, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Because that's work that adds no real value and will be appreciated by no one? --129.33.49.251 18:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

big picture from gw.dat?

well, i searched and couldn't find one. however, i suppose i did not search well enough. —ZerphaThe Improver 17:55, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

lolz this guy's posted an image--WikiWu 20:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow, i REALLY have to find out how this guy got this icon into his trade window! This would make it possible to complete the inventory icons project list in one day! —ZerphaThe Improver 01:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

ok nvmd, someone seemingly indeed traded them to him. 0ô *confused* —ZerphaThe Improver 02:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Did it ever have a purpose?

hey perhaps it USED to be used and then when they removed it there was a trace left (artistans) just a speculation, but who knows? Ash-ton / 11:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

If you salvage req 8 eternal blades, you get one of these. Joke, incase anyone was wondering. Firoas. 15:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

How true/reliable could be this information extracted from GW Guru?

In this old thread from Guild Wars Guru Forums (provided by Zerpha in the message above) and accesed through the Wayback Machine: Internet Archive I've read the next statements:

• 04-27-2008, 02:10 PM - KamikazeChicken: There was no way to obtain these materials at release, so it's not somebody clearing storage and magically finding them.
• 04-27-2008, 02:20 PM - KiyaKoreena: Not true, my husband got a mud drop during the first week. (seared Ascalon area) Since there was no use for them he merched it and never got another one. It is possible for someone to have had it on their account for 3 years. Possible, not too likely.
• 04-27-2008, 02:41 PM - Crom The Pale: If I recall correctly these items were used to craft the Tempored Glass Vial that was then needed for crafting the Vial of Ink.
• 04-27-2008, 03:39 PM - The Little Viking: Well, if its anything like the rubies...I got one of those when all we had was prophesies. It dropped with in the first 6 months after release. Held on to it too... We eventually had a use for rubies. I recall seeing the the bricks in the past....either just before or just after factions. Never did find a use for them.
• 04-27-2008, 04:10 PM - tarmongaidon: I've been playing since the beginning and an avid farmer also i have never had them drop nor heard of anyone ever getting them as drops. To my knowledge anet had an idea for them that never was implamented, so they took them out of the game. The fact that neither staoarge or rare mat guy has a slot for them combined with the fact the items in question look very much photoshopped leads me to believe this is a bunch of bs. Yes there are still the guys ingame that will make them just no mudbrick that will drop to make them. If u look closly at the pics of the mud and clay brick all they did was copy/paste and enlarge the pics to what u see in the original picture, somebody's just looking for attention.

It's a pity that information from the first two weeks after the game release is hardly saved. Gaile's explanation is unclear, so I don't know if there is anyone around here who has memories of that time (or contacts that played the game in that time) to confirm the conversation posted above from GW Guru . —Scribeton (talk) 01:06, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

it was never a drop or questions about how to use them and the other material would have popped up a lot back then. Instead all we see are questions on how to acquire them based solely on their appearance at artisans. Justice (talk) 12:13, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

They were absolutely part of the recipe for Clay Bricks, as was the case with certain artisans, this part has been confirmed enough. I have never seen Bricks of Mud actually drop, though, and the above conversation seems especially odd because you would need TWO of the bricks of mud to craft one clay brick and keep one as proof that the bricks of mud exist as drops, because the clay bricks to possibly salvage from would not have dropped in Prophecies in the first place (most rare crafting materials that do drop from foes did not do so until Factions, with the exception of Charcoal and the Monstrous materials). I am fully willing to discredit the validity of that claim on Guru, it simply doesn't make much sense. - Infinite - talk 21:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)