The brick economy

Everything built in the world is bricks. Stables, the rooms inside them, plot kilns, black market shops, and every day of upkeep a standing stable eats.

The recipe

Bricks are fired at the Kiln, three of which stand in the Foal Pen. The recipe is fixed:

3 horse shit + 2 straw + 1 water = 1 brick.

Nothing spawns a brick. Every brick in every building was fired by a player out of materials another player pulled out of the world.

Its three inputs are not equals

This is the part that matters, and it changed on 15 August 2026.

• Straw and water are gathered at nodes and they regrow, 20 an hour up to 60 waiting at a node. They are the easy two thirds of a brick.
• Horse shit cannot be gathered at all. It comes from a built stable, 5 to 8 an hour, or from the activity bar, capped at 20 a day per wallet.

So shit is the ceiling on every brick. A 6x6 stable is 240 bricks, which is 720 horse shit: 36 days of the activity bar alone. Most builders buy shit on the Exchange from stable owners, or use Accelerate.

Firing a brick costs no Gloo, and bricks never rot, while the raw basics that make them lose about 1/30 a day. Turning basics into bricks is how you keep their value.

What else the kiln fires

• Metal rod, 4 scrap. Metal sheet, 3 rods. Both feed the black market shop builds, which take 400 bricks, 10 iron fittings, 12 rods and 12 sheets each, and metal sheets are four of a tent.
• Bone, from 2 fishbone, at level 6. The Ocean's whole reason to exist.
• Armour fusing, on its second tab. See The kiln and armour fusing.

The saddle

A saddle is not fired, it is built at the Workshop:

6 hide + 3 scrap + 1 bone + 2 crude glue = 1 saddle.

Brick demand never ends

Three things keep bricks in demand:

• Upkeep. Every standing stable burns 1 to 4 bricks a day, forever.
• Room shells and plot kilns. 60 to 220 bricks for a room, 150 for a kiln.
• New land. Reserve lots open as the playerbase grows, each a fresh 240 to 1,300 brick job. Bricks put into a build never come back out.

The relics

The big stables ask for one thing bricks cannot give: iron fittings, and for the biggest, a keystone. Neither is gathered, neither is fired, and since 6 August 2026 no quest hands them out. Iron fittings drop, rarely, from the creatures of the seven wild grounds and from the shipwreck chests on the Shore; a keystone comes off Lil Knacker and nowhere else. Both trade, but no vendor will buy either, so the only price they have is the one a player pays.

Everything on this page trades on the Gloo Exchange. See The economy.