Block of Coal

Block of Coal

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	30
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes, but does not catch fire from lava
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 173 hex: AD bin: 10101101
Namespaced ID	coal_block

This article is about the mineral block. For the ore, see Coal Ore. For the item, see Coal.

The block of coal is a mineral block that can also be used as a fuel.

Obtaining

Blocks of coal can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.

Block	Block of Coal
Hardness	5
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	25
Wooden	3.75
Stone	1.9
Iron	1.25
Diamond	0.95
Golden	0.65

Crafting

Blocks of coal can only be crafted with regular coal, not charcoal. It is crafted in the same way as other mineral blocks. In the console edition, they are crafted with regular coal but they drop charcoal instead.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Coal

Usage

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

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Coal	Block of Coal	9

Fuel

Blocks of coal can be used as fuel in a furnace. One block of coal lasts 800 seconds, which smelts 80 items. This is ten times the duration of a single piece of coal and 1¹⁄₉ times as efficient as nine individual pieces of coal.

History

Java Edition
April 5, 2013					Coal blocks mentioned by Dinnerbone, after their featuring in Minecraft 2.0. These would apparently be difficult to implement due to an analogous block made of charcoal requiring a separate block ID due to "logical issues".
1.6.1		13w18a			Added blocks of coal, which utilize the same texture as from Minecraft 2.0.
					The smelting time for block of coal is 720 seconds.
		13w18c			Smelting time for a block of coal has now been changed to 800 seconds.
		13w19a			The texture for blocks of coal has now been changed.
					Blocks of coal are now flammable.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 173.
1.14		18w43a			Changed the texture of blocks of coal.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0		build 2			Added blocks of coal.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Changed the texture of blocks of coal.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added blocks of coal.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					Changed the texture of blocks of coal.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added blocks of coal.

Issues

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Trivia

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

Gallery

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

References

Blocks

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