Charcoal

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Charcoal is an item obtained by smelting logs or wood. It is used as fuel, or for crafting torches and campfires. Unlike coal, charcoal cannot be traded with villagers or crafted into a block of coal. Coal and charcoal also cannot stack together. It can be used as a substitute for coal, as both charcoal and coal have an equivalent duration when smelted.
Obtaining
Mining
A campfire broken without the Silk Touch enchantment drops 2 charcoal.
Smelting
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Any Log or Any Stripped Log or Any Wood or Any Stripped Wood + Any fuel |
Compound creation
Charcoal can be created from its base elements, using the compound creator.
| Name | Elements | Example recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | 7 Carbon 4 Hydrogen 1 Oxygen |
Usage
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Campfire | Stick + + Any Log orStem or Any Stripped Log orStem or Any Wood orHyphae or Any Stripped Wood orHyphae |
|
| Fire Charge | Blaze Powder + + Gunpowder |
|
| Soul Torch | + Stick + Soul Soil or Soul Sand |
|
| Torch | + Stick |
Lab table ingredient
Charcoal is one of the lab table ingredients needed to produce the heat block.
| Result | Materials needed |
|---|---|
Heat Block |
|
Fuel
When used in a furnace as a fuel, a piece of charcoal lasts 80 seconds (smelting up to 8 items), the same as coal. Charcoal used as fuel lasts more than 5 times longer than wood planks or wood logs used as fuel, being more efficient than any other use of wood for smelting in Java Edition, but outstripped by wooden slabs in Bedrock Edition.
Coal and charcoal are also the only fuels accepted by furnace minecarts. They provide three minutes of transit each.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
charcoal | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
charcoal | coal / 1 | 303 | Item | minecraft:coals | item |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| Renewable Energy | Smelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal. | Smelt a wooden log with as the fuel. | 10 | Bronze | |||
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 25, 2010 | Charcoal was suggested to Notch by @Moleculor on Twitter as a writing implement. | ||||||
| 1.2 | |||||||
| Charcoal is not used as a writing implement. | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w04a | Charcoal can now be used to craft fire charges. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w22a | Charcoal is now directly available in the creative inventory. | |||||
| 1.3 | |||||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Charcoal can no longer be traded from villagers. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 19w02a | Charcoal can now be used to craft campfires. Destroying a campfire returns 2 charcoal. | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.3.2 | Charcoal is now obtainable by smelting wood in a furnace. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| v0.8.1 | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.13 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Added stripped log variants, which can be smelted to obtain charcoal. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Charcoal now can be crafted using 7 Carbon, 4 Hydrogen, and an Oxygen in a compound creator. | |||||
| Charcoal can now be used in the lab table to create a heat block. | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Charcoal can now be used to craft campfires. Destroying a campfire returns 2 charcoal. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Charcoal are now used to craft soul fire torches. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU9 | |||||||
| Charcoal can now be used to craft fire charges. | |||||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | |||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| 1.91 | Charcoal can now be used to craft campfires. Destroying a campfire returns 2 charcoal. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the coal ID have been split up into their own IDs.
| |||||
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 263. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of charcoal has been changed from coal/1 to charcoal. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Charcoal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.