The block of coal is a compact way to store coal, and can be used for decoration and fuel.
As a fuel source, it can smelt 80 items.
Crafting
Blocks of coal can only be crafted with regular coal, not charcoal.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Coal |
Usage
As a crafting ingredient
A block of coal can be crafted back into 9 coal items, making it useful as a storage block.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Block of Coal |
As a fuel
Blocks of coal can be used as fuel in a furnace. One block of coal smelts 80 items, which is more than the smelting time of the 9 coal items used to craft it. Note that since only 64 items can fit in the furnace at a time, to prevent wasting fuel you should restock the smelting items before they run out, and empty the output slot before it fills up (hoppers come in handy for automating this).
History
| u | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | 13w18a | Added block of coal. | |||
| 13w18c | Smelting time was changed from 720 to 800 seconds. | ||||
Trivia
- Cannot be crafted using charcoal due to logical issues with crafting and destroying.[1]
- Blocks of coal use the same texture as block of redstone, but black instead of red.
- Blocks of coal cannot be used as fuel for the minecart with furnace.
- A full stack can cook for a little over fifty times as many items as a bucket of lava.
- Block of Coal was made before 13w18a. It was featured in Minecraft 2.0.
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