How do you get Charcoal in Minecraft?

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

How many Charcoal can you stack?

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

Can Charcoal be used as fuel?

Fuel, and a usable amount of it: 80 seconds per Charcoal of Charcoal, 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.

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

Durability

N/A

Charcoal at a glance

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

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

How to obtain Charcoal

Smelting

Cooking 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. Charcoal pays 0.15 experience each time, 9.6 for the whole 64.

Fuel value of Charcoal

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

Notes on Charcoal

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

How do you get Charcoal in Minecraft?
Charcoal is obtained through smelting. There is no crafting grid that makes 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. Charcoal pays 0.15 experience each time, 9.6 for the whole 64.
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.
How many Charcoal can you stack?
Charcoal goes 64 to a slot, and 64 Charcoal carries a furnace through 512 smelted items. A shulker box of Charcoal is 1,728 Charcoal, over 27 slots of Charcoal.
Can Charcoal be used as fuel?
Fuel, and a usable amount of it: 80 seconds per Charcoal of Charcoal, 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 Charcoal

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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Charcoal at a glance

How to obtain Charcoal

Cooking Charcoal

Fuel value of Charcoal

Notes on Charcoal

Frequently asked questions about Charcoal

How do you get Charcoal in Minecraft?

How do you cook Charcoal?

What is Charcoal used for?

How many Charcoal can you stack?

Can Charcoal be used as fuel?

Building with Charcoal

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