Block of Coal

This article is regarding the mineral block. For the ore, check out Coal Ore. For the item, refer to Coal.

A coal block is a storage unit, equal to nine pieces of coal, that can also function as a source of energy.

Obtaining[]

Coal blocks can be extracted using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it yields nothing.

Block	Block of Coal
Hardness	5
Tool
Default	25
Wooden	3.75
Stone	1.9
Iron	1.25
Diamond	0.95
Netherite	0.85
Golden	0.65

Crafting[]

Charcoal blocks can be crafted not only from regular coal, but also from other mineral blocks in the same way.

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[]

One coal block can be used as fuel in a furnace. It smelts 80 items, lasting for 800 seconds (16000 ticks). This is as efficient as nine individual pieces of coal, and the duration of a single piece of coal is ten times longer. However, using one coal block would only smelt 72 items as nine individual pieces of coal, and using one coal block prevents the furnace from being inactive. On the other hand, smelting one item with one coal wastes seven potential items. Similarly, smelting items potential 79 wastes one coal block with one item, while using the furnace prevents the latter from being inactive. Additionally, smelting one item with one coal wastes seven potential items, and smelting items potential 79 wastes one coal block with items potential 79.

Note Blocks[]

A chunk of coal can be placed beneath musical blocks to generate “bass drum” sounds.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:.

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:.

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Block of Coal	coal_block	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.coal_block

Bedrock Edition:.

Video[]

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History[]

Java Edition
2.0	Added blocks of coal to the April Fool’s ‘update’, Minecraft 2.0, using a recolored version of the Block of Redstone texture. It could not be used as fuel and was only a compact block. When crafted back to coal, it would have an item data value of 32767 instead of 0, so it could not be stacked with other coal.
1.6.1	13w18a	Added blocks of coal.
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 been changed to 800 seconds.
13w19a	The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
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 no model rather than appearing identical to blocks of coal.
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: DV Description 0 Block of Coal 1-15
1.13	17w47a	Prior to The Flattening, this block’s numeral ID was 173.
1.14	18w43a	The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0	build 1	Added blocks of coal.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90	The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0	Added blocks of coal.

Issues[]

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Trivia[]

Coal blocks are not suitable for use as fuel for the furnace-powered minecart.

In order to accomplish this, the gamer requires 576 pieces of coal or 9 sets of coal. Nonetheless, this amounts to more than fifty times the quantity of items compared to a lava bucket. Within a span of 42 Minecraft days, a complete set of coal blocks should be able to melt for a duration of 14.2 hours.

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