Minecraft:Block of Coal

Template:For Template:For Template:Infobox block A block of coal, also known as a coal block, is a storage block, equivalent to nine Minecraft:coal, that can also be used as Minecraft:fuel.

Obtaining

Breaking

Blocks of coal can be mined using any Minecraft:pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Natural generation

Blocks of coal can generate in Minecraft:trail ruins.

Crafting

Blocks of coal can be crafted only from regular Minecraft:coal, not Minecraft:charcoal. It is crafted in the same way as other mineral blocks.

Usage

Blocks of coal are often used to store coal in a compact fashion, or otherwise used as a fairly cheap construction block.

Fuel

Blocks of coal can be used as fuel in a Minecraft:furnace. One block of coal lasts 800 seconds (16000 ticks), which smelts 80 items. This is ten times the duration of a single piece of coal and 1Template:Frac times as efficient (+11.11%) as nine individual pieces of coal, which would only smelt 72 items. The latter, however, prevents inactive furnace use; while smelting one item with one coal wastes seven potential items, smelting one item with one block of coal wastes 79 potential items.

Data values

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History

Trivia

• Blocks of coal cannot be used as fuel for the Minecraft:minecart with furnace.
• A full stack of coal blocks should smelt for 14.2 hours – over 42 Minecraft:Minecraft days. That is over 50 times as many items as a Minecraft:lava bucket. However, the player needs 576 coal or 9 stacks of coal to do this.

Gallery

Screenshots

• The 13w18a Banner, showing a block of coal, Minecraft:furnace, Minecraft:hopper, and multiple Minecraft:hay bales.
  The 13w18a Banner, showing a block of coal, Minecraft:furnace, Minecraft:hopper, and multiple Minecraft:hay bales.

See also

• Minecraft:Coal Ore
• Minecraft:Coal