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Charcoal
Miscellaneous

Charcoal

A fuel item produced by smelting logs or wood. It functions identically to coal except it cannot be crafted into a block.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.2.0

Item ID

charcoal

Charcoal at a glance

Miscellaneous holds Charcoal: an item out of smelting. Stack Charcoal 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest. Feed Charcoal to a furnace and 8 smelts follow, 512 from a stack of 64.

Charcoal sits between Buried Treasure Map and Clay Ball in Miscellaneous, number 21 of 147 there.

How to obtain

  • Smelting

Cooking

Heat is all Charcoal asks for: any of 36 types, Dark Oak Log and Dark Oak Wood through Stripped Cherry Wood go in a furnace and come back out. Give it 10 seconds per Charcoal in the furnace. Charcoal pays 0.15 experience each time, 9.6 for the whole 64.

Fuel value

Charcoal burns for 80 seconds (1600 ticks), which is 8 items per Charcoal

Notes

Smelt any log or stripped log to obtain it. As fuel it smelts 8 items and can craft torches and campfires.

Frequently asked questions about Charcoal

  1. Smelting leading to Charcoal, the way this answer says Charcoal arrives

    How do you get Charcoal in Minecraft?

    Charcoal is obtained through smelting. There is no crafting grid that makes Charcoal.

  2. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Charcoal

    How do you cook Charcoal?

    Heat is all Charcoal asks for: any of 36 types, Dark Oak Log and Dark Oak Wood through Stripped Cherry Wood go in a furnace and come back out. Give it 10 seconds per Charcoal in the furnace. It pays 0.15 experience each time, 9.6 for the whole 64.

  3. Charcoal on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Charcoal used for?

    A fuel item produced by smelting logs or wood. It functions identically to coal except it cannot be crafted into a block.

  4. 64 Charcoal drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Charcoal can you stack?

    Charcoal goes 64 to a slot, and a full slot carries a furnace through 512 smelted items. A shulker box of Charcoal comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  5. Charcoal beside a furnace, which is where its 80 seconds of burning go

    Can Charcoal be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Charcoal burns 80 seconds apiece, or 8 items out of a single one. Ten seconds go into every item, which is how 80 seconds of Charcoal turn into 8 items.

Building with it

Any log smelted gives charcoal, which burns exactly as long as coal and makes torches identically. That means a world with trees never needs a coal mine, and one furnace burning logs to make charcoal to burn more logs is the classic self sustaining fuel loop.

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