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Crafting Table
This article describes content that may be included in a future update. 
This content has appeared in development versions, but the full update containing it has not been released yet.

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

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1.613w18aAdded block of coal.
13w18cSmelting 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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