Block of Coal
Renewable |
Yes |
---|---|
Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Tool | |
Blast resistance |
6 |
Hardness |
5 |
Luminant |
No |
Transparent |
No |
Flammable |
Yes (5) |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
A block of coal is a mineral block that can also be used as a fuel.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Blocks of coal can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.
Block | Block of Coal | |
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Hardness | 5 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 25 | |
Wooden | 3.75 | |
Stone | 1.9 | |
Iron | 1.25 | |
Diamond | 0.95 | |
Netherite | 0.85 | |
Golden | 0.65 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Crafting[edit]
Blocks of coal can be crafted only from regular coal, not charcoal. It is crafted in the same way as other mineral blocks.
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Coal |
Usage[edit]
Blocks of coal are often used to store coal in a compact fashion, or otherwise used as a fairly cheap construction block.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|---|
Coal | Block of Coal |
Fuel[edit]
Blocks of coal can be used as fuel in a 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 11⁄9 times as efficient (+11.11%) as nine individual pieces of coal- which would only smelt 72 items. This, however, prevents inactive furnace use. While smelting one item with one coal wastes 7 potential items, smelting one item with one coal block wastes 79 potential items.
Note Blocks[edit]
Block of coal can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block.stone.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.stone.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | Mining the block | block.stone.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | block.stone.place | subtitles.block.generic.place | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.stone.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | Breaking the block | dig.stone | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.stone | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Blocks | Mining the block | hit.stone | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.stone | 0.12 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.stone | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Blocks | Walking on the block | step.stone | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Blocks | Placing the block | use.stone | 1.0 | 0.8 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
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Block of Coal | coal_block | block.minecraft.coal_block |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
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Block of Coal | coal_block | 173 | tile.coal_block.name |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
Java Edition | ||||||||||||
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2.0 | ![]() | |||||||||||
April 5, 2013 | Coal blocks mentioned by Dinnerbone,[1] 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 | ![]() | ||||||||||
Blocks of coal utilize the same texture as from the April Fools' Day update. | ||||||||||||
The smelting time for block of coal is 720 seconds. | ||||||||||||
13w18c | The smelting time for a block of coal has now been changed to 800 seconds. | |||||||||||
13w19a | ![]() | |||||||||||
Blocks of coal are now flammable. | ||||||||||||
1.8 | 14w11b | Blocks of coal with numerical metadata variants 1 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have a missing texture ![]() | ||||||||||
14w26a | Block metadata has been completely removed from this snapshot onwards with the introduction of block states. As this block never used block metadata at all prior to this version, fifteen unused, inaccessible metadata variants of it have been completely removed from the game:
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1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 173. | ||||||||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | ||||||||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | ||||||||||||
0.8.0 | build 2 | ![]() | ||||||||||
Bedrock Edition | ||||||||||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() | ||||||||||
Legacy Console Edition | ||||||||||||
TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() | |||||||
PlayStation 4 Edition | ||||||||||||
1.90 | ![]() | |||||||||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | ||||||||||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Block of Coal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- 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 over fifty times as many items as a lava bucket. However, the player needs 576 coal or 9 stacks of coal to do this.