Talk:Coal

I don't unerstand the use of charcoal... I guess we can make "coal" without coal, am I right ?? Gaby5011 13:21, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, Charcoal is quite useful during the first night since you're more likely going to find more wood than natural coal, so making torch is now easier. Plus, coal is a limited resource that you can run off. Wood is not, you can farm trees for that. -- Linkyu 13:36, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm interested in rewriting the section on charcoal efficiency. As it stands it's not very concise and doesn't get far enough into the math to break it down to it's simplest form (i.e., four wood is six smelting operations, while one charcoal is 8 smelting operations minus one operation used to create it: The real, simple difference is exactly one smelting operation per log plus some cooking time.)  I'm willing to do the rewrite myself, but I wanted to make certain nobody would be upset about it if I delete the rambling in that section before I do so. --Qlmmb2086 23:12, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Move
Why was this moved to (Item)? You can have a main article w/o needing a modifier, just have a blurb at the top explaining the other ones (like on Charcoal). And for that matter, I think charcoal should be moved back to just Charcoal, without the (Item). --JonTheMon 20:28, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * many blocks have many versions that need to be accdounted for. redstone is the biggest example. it has an ore, wire, item, repeater, torch and maybe more.--Kizzycocoa 20:30, 3 June 2011 (UTC)