Block of Coal

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For the joke block in Java Edition 2.0, see Block of Coal (April Fools' joke).

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For other uses, see Coal family.

Block of Coal

👁 Block of Coal.png: Infobox image for Minecraft block 'Block of Coal'

👁 Invicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Block of Coal

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	👁 Invicon Wooden Pickaxe.png: Sprite image for Wooden Pickaxe in Minecraft
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	5
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	Yes (5)
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	29 COLOR_BLACK
Note block instrument	Bass Drum
Sulfur cube archetype	Regular

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A block of coal, also known as a coal block, is a storage block, equivalent to nine coal, that can also be used as fuel.

Obtaining

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Breaking

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

Block	👁 Image
Hardness	5
Tool	👁 Image
Breaking time (sec)^[A]
Default	25
👁 ItemSprite wooden-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for wooden-pickaxe in Minecraft Wooden	3.75
👁 ItemSprite stone-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for stone-pickaxe in Minecraft Stone	1.9
👁 ItemSprite copper-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for copper-pickaxe in Minecraft Copper	1.5
👁 ItemSprite iron-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for iron-pickaxe in Minecraft Iron	1.25
👁 ItemSprite diamond-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for diamond-pickaxe in Minecraft Diamond	0.95
👁 ItemSprite netherite-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for netherite-pickaxe in Minecraft Netherite	0.85
👁 ItemSprite golden-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for golden-pickaxe in Minecraft Golden	0.65
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

incorrect tool, drops nothing
correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
correct tool, drops the block itself
italicized can be instant mined

↑ These durations ignore any other influential factors (e.g., Mining Fatigue) and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

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Blocks of coal can generate in trail ruins.

Crafting

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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	👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 👁 Invicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Block of Coal

Ingredients

Crafting recipe

Coal

Usage

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

Crafting ingredient

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Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Coal	👁 Invicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Block of Coal 👁 Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: Coal 9

Fuel

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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. The latter, however, prevents inactive furnace use; while smelting one item with one coal wastes seven potential items, smelting one item with one block of coal wastes 79 potential items.

Sounds

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Java Edition:

v t e 👁 BlockSprite stone.png: Sprite image for stone in Minecraft `stone` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	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
Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.stone.fall`	`subtitles.block.generic.fall`	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.stone.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e 👁 BlockSprite stone.png: Sprite image for stone in Minecraft `stone` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8–1.0
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`place.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8–1.0
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.37	0.5
Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.4	1.0
Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	`step.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.3	1.0
Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.12	1.0
Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.stone`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.22	1.0

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
👁 BlockSprite block-of-coal.png: Sprite image for block-of-coal in Minecraft Block of Coal	`coal_block`	Block & Item	`mineable/pickaxe`	`block.minecraft.coal_block`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
👁 BlockSprite block-of-coal.png: Sprite image for block-of-coal in Minecraft Block of Coal	`coal_block`	`173`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.coal_block.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

Videos

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History

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Development

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April 5, 2013							Coal blocks were mentioned by Dinnerbone,^[1] after their existence 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".

Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.6.1	13w18a	👁 Image 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	👁 Image The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
	13w19a	Blocks of coal are now flammable.
1.14	18w43a	👁 Image The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
1.20	23w16a	Blocks of coal can now generate in trail ruins.
26.2	snap1	Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb blocks of coal, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0	build 1	👁 Image Added blocks of coal.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	👁 Image The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.
1.20.0		Blocks of coal can now generate in trail ruins.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026	Preview 26.20.23	Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb blocks of coal, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30	Preview 26.30.20	Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	👁 Image Added blocks of coal.
			1.90				👁 Image The texture of blocks of coal has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							👁 Image Added blocks of coal.

Data history

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Java Edition

1.8

14w11b

Blocks of coal with numerical metadata variants 1 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model 👁 Image
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
👁 BlockSprite block-of-coal.png: Sprite image for block-of-coal in Minecraft	0
👁 BlockSprite missingno.png: Sprite image for missingno in Minecraft	1-15	Inaccessible "boring" variants of blocks of coal

1.13

17w47a

Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 173.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Block of Coal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

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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 50 times as many items as a lava bucket. However, the player needs 576 coal or 9 stacks of coal to do this.

Gallery

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Screenshots

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

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

In other media

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👁 A block of coal as it appears in Minecraft Earth.

A block of coal as it appears in Minecraft Earth.
👁 A block of coal for April Fools' Day.

A block of coal for April Fools' Day.

References

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↑ "@LuxurioMusic No. Logical issues with crafting and destroying. There would have to be separate coal/charcoal blocks which isn't nice." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), April 5, 2013

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All editions	👁 Image Branches 👁 Image Copper Button 👁 Image Colored Planks 👁 Image Coral Slab 👁 Image Dead 👁 Image Dirt Slab 👁 Image Empty Barrel 👁 Image Fish Barrel 👁 Image Furniture 👁 Image Paeonia 👁 Image 👁 Image Sculk Jaw 👁 Image Spike Block 👁 Image Wax Block

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April Fools 2013	👁 Image Block of Coal 👁 Image Etho Slab 👁 Image Tinted Glass 👁 Image Torch (Burnt-out)
April Fools 2016	👁 Image USB Charger Block
April Fools 2020	👁 Image An Ant 👁 Image Box of Infinite Books 👁 Image Cursor 👁 Image Funky Portal 👁 Image Leftover 👁 Image Swaggiest stairs ever
April Fools 2022	👁 Image How did we get here?
April Fools 2023	👁 Image Cheese 👁 Image Copper Sink 👁 Image Filled 👁 Image Copper Spleaves 👁 Image Golden Chest 👁 Image Other Portal 👁 Image Packed Air 👁 Image Pickaxe Block 👁 Image Place Block
April Fools 2024	👁 Image Baked Potato Bricks 👁 Image Expired 👁 Image Charred 👁 Image Big Brain 👁 Image Block of Amber 👁 Image Block of Potato Peels 👁 Image Corrupted 👁 Image Floatater 👁 Image Floatato 👁 Image Frying Table 👁 Image Gravtater 👁 Image Pedestal 👁 Image Peelgrass Block 👁 Image Corrupted 👁 Image Poison Farmland 👁 Image Poison Path 👁 Image Poisonous Mashed Potato 👁 Image Poisonous Potato Block 👁 Image Compressed 👁 Image Double Compressed 👁 Image Triple Compressed 👁 Image Quadruple Compressed 👁 Image Poisonous Potato Cutter 👁 Image Poisonous Potato Head Block 👁 Image Poisonous Potato Headpiece 👁 Image Poisonous Potato Ore 👁 Image Deepslate 👁 Image Potato Battery 👁 Image Potato Bud 👁 Image Potato flower 👁 Image Potato Fruit 👁 Image Potato Leaves 👁 Image Potato Pedicule 👁 Image Potato Portal 👁 Image Potato Refinery 👁 Image Potato Sprouts 👁 Image Potato Stem 👁 Image Planks 👁 Image Slab 👁 Image Stairs 👁 Image Door 👁 Image Trapdoor 👁 Image Button 👁 Image Pressure Plate 👁 Image Sign 👁 Image Hanging Sign 👁 Image Fence 👁 Image Fence Gate 👁 Image Potone 👁 Image Copper Ore 👁 Image Diamond Ore 👁 Image Gold Ore 👁 Image Iron Ore 👁 Image Lapis Lazuli Ore 👁 Image Redstone Ore 👁 Image Resin Ore 👁 Image Powerful Potato 👁 Image Strong Roots 👁 Image Taterstone 👁 Image Terre de Pomme 👁 Image Vicious Potato 👁 Image Weak Roots
April Fools 2025	👁 Image Dimension Control 👁 Image Mine Travelling Block 👁 Image Mine Revisitor 👁 Image Mine Crafter 👁 Image Mob Trophy 👁 Image Shimmering Door 👁 Image Sky 👁 Image Trophy
April Fools 2026	👁 Image Copper Trap 👁 Image Iron Trap

👁 BlockSprite potted-block.png: Sprite image for potted-block in Minecraft Extreme metadata variants
All editions	👁 Image Directionless Hopper 👁 Image Seamless Stone Slab 👁 Image Six-sided Hay Bale 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image Six-sided Piston
Java Edition only	👁 Image Faceless Furnace 👁 Image Faceless Jack o'Lantern 👁 Image Green Shrub 👁 Image Potted 👁 Image Invisible stairs 👁 Image Misaligned torch 👁 Image Redstone 👁 Image Nether portal post 👁 Image Overripe Melon Stem 👁 Image Attached 👁 Image Overripe Pumpkin Stem 👁 Image Attached 👁 Image Overgrown Cocoa 👁 Image Overeaten Cake 👁 Image Overgrown Wheat Crops 👁 Image Potted non-flower block 👁 Image Snowy Dirt 👁 Image Coarse 👁 BlockSprite stone-revision-1.png: Sprite image for stone-revision-1 in Minecraft 👁 Image Strange buttons 👁 Image Others
Bedrock Edition only	👁 Image Bell Stand 👁 Image Diorite Bell 👁 Image Granite Bell 👁 Image Polished 👁 Image Six-sided Bone Block 👁 Image Six-sided Purpur Pillar 👁 Image Six-sided Quartz Pillar 👁 Image Smokeless Campfire

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