How do you get Block of Coal in Minecraft?

Block of Coal is crafted from Coal at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

Can Block of Coal be used as fuel?

Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Block of Coal burns 800 seconds apiece, or 80 items out of a single one. It is made from Coal, 800 seconds a piece, so burning it spends Coal. One Coal on its own gives 80 seconds, next to the 800 of Block of Coal.

How long does Block of Coal take to break?

Mining Block of Coal works against 5; explosions on it work against 6. The two numbers on Block of Coal are not the same, so mining and blowing it up are separate jobs. A pickaxe is the right tool for Block of Coal, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 stores Block of Coal with those figures unchanged, so it reads the same here.

How many Block of Coal can you stack?

576 Coal is what 64 Block of Coal costs, so filling a single slot is 64 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

Utility BlocksCraftable

Block of Coal

A storage block that holds nine coal. It can be used as furnace fuel.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Block of Coal at a glance

Block of Coal comes from crafting, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. Carrying Block of Coal is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest. It doubles as furnace fuel, good for 80 smelts each and 5120 from a full stack.

Breaking Block of Coal works against a hardness of 5. Blast resistance sits at 6. A pickaxe is the right tool for Block of Coal, and any tier of it collects the block. It sits between Blast Furnace and Block of Copper in Utility Blocks, number 44 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
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Block of Coal
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Block of Coal has the grid for Block of Coal

How to obtain

Crafting

Fuel value

Block of Coal burns for 800 seconds (16000 ticks), which is 80 items per Block of Coal

Notes

As fuel it smelts 80 items, more efficient than the 9 individual coal it stores. Can be uncrafted back into 9 coal.

Frequently asked questions about Block of Coal

How do you get Block of Coal in Minecraft?
Block of Coal is crafted from Coal at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
What is Block of Coal used for?
A storage block that holds nine coal. It can be used as furnace fuel.
Can Block of Coal be used as fuel?
Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Block of Coal burns 800 seconds apiece, or 80 items out of a single one. It is made from Coal, 800 seconds a piece, so burning it spends Coal. One Coal on its own gives 80 seconds, next to the 800 of Block of Coal.
How long does Block of Coal take to break?
Mining Block of Coal works against 5; explosions on it work against 6. The two numbers on Block of Coal are not the same, so mining and blowing it up are separate jobs. A pickaxe is the right tool for Block of Coal, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 stores Block of Coal with those figures unchanged, so it reads the same here.
How many Block of Coal can you stack?
576 Coal is what 64 Block of Coal costs, so filling a single slot is 64 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

Building with it

Nine coal make a block of coal, and it is the best fuel in the game per inventory slot: eighty items smelted from one block, where the same nine coal loose would smelt seventy-two. That eight-item bonus is why every automatic smelter runs on blocks rather than on loose coal.

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