Block of Coal

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

Obtaining

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

Block Block of Coal
Hardness 5
Tool
Breaking time[FN 1]
Default 25
Wooden 3.75
Stone 1.9
Iron 1.25
Diamond 0.95
Netherite 0.85
Golden 0.65
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting

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
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

Fuel

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 119 times as efficient (+11.11%) as nine individual pieces of coal- which would only smelt 72 items. The latter 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

Block of coal can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

Sounds

Java Edition:

SoundSubtitleSourceDescriptionNamespaced IDTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
File:Stone dig1.oggFile:Stone dig2.oggFile:Stone dig3.oggFile:Stone dig4.oggBlock brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.stone.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break1.00.816
File:Stone hit1.oggFile:Stone hit2.oggFile:Stone hit3.oggFile:Stone hit4.oggFile:Stone hit5.oggFile:Stone hit6.oggNone[sound 1]BlocksFalling on the block with fall damageblock.stone.fallNone[sound 1]0.50.7516
File:Stone hit1.oggFile:Stone hit2.oggFile:Stone hit3.oggFile:Stone hit4.oggFile:Stone hit5.oggFile:Stone hit6.oggBlock breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.stone.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit0.250.516
File:Stone dig1.oggFile:Stone dig2.oggFile:Stone dig3.oggFile:Stone dig4.oggBlock placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.stone.placesubtitles.block.generic.place1.00.816
File:Stone hit1.oggFile:Stone hit2.oggFile:Stone hit3.oggFile:Stone hit4.oggFile:Stone hit5.oggFile:Stone hit6.oggFootstepsBlocksWalking on the blockblock.stone.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionNamespaced IDVolumePitch
File:Stone dig1.oggFile:Stone dig2.oggFile:Stone dig3.oggFile:Stone dig4.oggBlocksOnce the block has brokendig.stone1.00.8
File:Stone hit1.oggFile:Stone hit2.oggFile:Stone hit3.oggFile:Stone hit4.oggFile:Stone hit5.oggFile:Stone hit6.oggBlocksFalling on the block with fall damagefall.stone0.41.0
File:Stone hit1.oggFile:Stone hit2.oggFile:Stone hit3.oggFile:Stone hit4.oggFile:Stone hit5.oggFile:Stone hit6.oggBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.stone0.370.5
?BlocksJumping from the blockjump.stone0.121.0
?BlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.stone0.221.0
File:Stone hit1.oggFile:Stone hit2.oggFile:Stone hit3.oggFile:Stone hit4.oggFile:Stone hit5.oggFile:Stone hit6.oggBlocksWalking on the blockstep.stone0.31.0
File:Stone dig1.oggFile:Stone dig2.oggFile:Stone dig3.oggFile:Stone dig4.oggBlocksWhen the block is placeduse.stone1.00.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameNamespaced IDFormTranslation key
Block of Coalcoal_blockBlock & Itemblock.minecraft.coal_block

Bedrock Edition:

NameNamespaced IDNumeric ID FormTranslation key
Block of Coalcoal_block173Block & Itemtile.coal_block.name

Video

History

Java Edition
2.032px 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.
April 5, 2013Coal 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".
1.6.113w18a32px 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.
13w18cThe smelting time for a block of coal has now been changed to 800 seconds.
13w19a32px The texture for blocks of coal has now been changed.
Blocks of coal are now flammable.
1.814w11bBlocks of coal with numerical metadata variants 1 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have a missing texture 32px rather than appearing identical to blocks of coal.
14w26aBlock 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 Inaccessible "boring" variants of blocks of coal
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 173.
1.1418w43a32px The texture of blocks of coal has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0build 232px Added blocks of coal.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.332px The texture of blocks of coal has now been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19CU7 1.12 Patch 11.0.132px Added blocks of coal.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.9032px The texture of blocks of coal has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.032px Added blocks of coal.

Issues

Issues relating to "Block of Coal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • 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.

Gallery

References

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