There is no difference. Charcoal is just to provide you with torches if you don't have coal. You can make charcoal by putting wooden stumps in the top and wooden planks in the bottom of a furnace.
Coal is found by mining Coal Ore blocks with a Pick Axe
Charcoal is made in the furnace.
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Charcoal is smelted (Well, carbonized, technically) from tree logs using any fuel source.
Coal is mined straight out of the rock.
They both do exactly the same thing with the only difference being item stack and name.
While in the short term, Charcoal is good for surviving your first few nights, coal is better, being easy to find once you start into caves/mines, and keeps you from deforesting your entire map.
Also pretty much anything made out of wood(except doors, and like two other things) can be used for fuel. Only Charcoal, and Coal can be used for fuel in powered minecarts though.
Charcoal is smelted (Well, carbonized, technically) from tree logs using any fuel source.
Coal is mined straight out of the rock.
They both do exactly the same thing with the only difference being item stack and name.
While in the short term, Charcoal is good for surviving your first few nights, coal is better, being easy to find once you start into caves/mines, and keeps you from deforesting your entire map.
Actually, I would think Charcoal is an easier resource to obtain and maintain than Coal.
You wouldn't need to deforest your map. Every time you cut a tree down to turn it into Charcoal, you plant a new tree. Just rinse and repeat basically. If you had an efficient tree farm, you could get much more Charcoal than Coal.
if i remember correctly coal can be used for torches as well as a burning source in the furnace instead of wooden planks where as charcoal is just for torches.
if i remember correctly coal can be used for torches as well as a burning source in the furnace instead of wooden planks where as charcoal is just for torches.
Charcoal can most certainly be used in lieu of coal in furnaces.
I have heard that charcoal burns longer, but I don't believe that. Also, I really wish the image wasn't identical and yes the thumbnails are exactly identical because you can check in the items.png under gui in the minecraft.jarOh never mind I wasn't aware you guys were talking about the xbox version and Blackmetal is wrong.
Actually, I would think Charcoal is an easier resource to obtain and maintain than Coal.
You wouldn't need to deforest your map. Every time you cut a tree down to turn it into Charcoal, you plant a new tree. Just rinse and repeat basically. If you had an efficient tree farm, you could get much more Charcoal than Coal.
Yup, only an idiot chops down all the trees without planting more. Just about every tree will drop more than one sapling when you chop all the leaves at the same time.
Also, charcoal makes steaks taste better. Coal, not so much.
Actually, I would think Charcoal is an easier resource to obtain and maintain than Coal.
You wouldn't need to deforest your map. Every time you cut a tree down to turn it into Charcoal, you plant a new tree. Just rinse and repeat basically. If you had an efficient tree farm, you could get much more Charcoal than Coal.
Yeah, but coal you simply come across when looking for more valuable resources, so folks tend to have a heap of it anyway. Plus making charcoal requires burning other wood, also taking more time. I'm not going through the mathematical trouble, but I'm guessing it pretty much evens out to the average survivalist. Now, if someone has an unnatural fear of caves, charcoal is definitely the best solution. Or if one likes to pretend that Steve is a vampire, coal may be the obvious choice.
Actually, I would think Charcoal is an easier resource to obtain and maintain than Coal.
You wouldn't need to deforest your map. Every time you cut a tree down to turn it into Charcoal, you plant a new tree. Just rinse and repeat basically. If you had an efficient tree farm, you could get much more Charcoal than Coal.
I have been in search of a tree farm for xbox version, the pc ones don't work. Do you know of any tutorial for an xbox one like what metz/wy craft made since he has no tutorial yet? The kind that take a lot of bonemeal just to grow one tree sucks, I mean one like what metz made that takes one to two bonemeal to grow.
I have been in search of a tree farm for xbox version, the pc ones don't work. Do you know of any tutorial for an xbox one like what metz/wy craft made since he has no tutorial yet? The kind that take a lot of bonemeal just to grow one tree sucks, I mean one like what metz made that takes one to two bonemeal to grow.
How does it take more than one bonemeal to make a tree grow? Unless you miss the hit box for the sapling and accidentally grow grass and flowers...I've been using bonemeal on saplings quite a bit lately and it never takes more than one swipe if I'm on target with the hit box. Now the size of the tree may vary but otherwise...I've never seen a situation where I needed more than one swipe. I'm probably missing something in what you mean though.
tree farms are different to growing trees in the wild, sometimes it does take more than 1 attempt
This is true. I was talking about a piston tree farm not just growing a tree in open area url54mvp, the saplings in automatic farms require multiple bonemeal attempts and I am in need of one that does not need so much bonemeal.
How do you do this and what's the difference?
"can" make. Sorry for that.
Charcoal is made in the furnace.
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Charcoal is smelted (Well, carbonized, technically) from tree logs using any fuel source.
Coal is mined straight out of the rock.
They both do exactly the same thing with the only difference being item stack and name.
While in the short term, Charcoal is good for surviving your first few nights, coal is better, being easy to find once you start into caves/mines, and keeps you from deforesting your entire map.
You wouldn't need to deforest your map. Every time you cut a tree down to turn it into Charcoal, you plant a new tree. Just rinse and repeat basically. If you had an efficient tree farm, you could get much more Charcoal than Coal.
Charcoal can most certainly be used in lieu of coal in furnaces.
Yup, only an idiot chops down all the trees without planting more. Just about every tree will drop more than one sapling when you chop all the leaves at the same time.
Also, charcoal makes steaks taste better. Coal, not so much.
Yeah, but coal you simply come across when looking for more valuable resources, so folks tend to have a heap of it anyway. Plus making charcoal requires burning other wood, also taking more time. I'm not going through the mathematical trouble, but I'm guessing it pretty much evens out to the average survivalist. Now, if someone has an unnatural fear of caves, charcoal is definitely the best solution. Or if one likes to pretend that Steve is a vampire, coal may be the obvious choice.
Well nothing can beat clean-burning propane!
I have been in search of a tree farm for xbox version, the pc ones don't work. Do you know of any tutorial for an xbox one like what metz/wy craft made since he has no tutorial yet? The kind that take a lot of bonemeal just to grow one tree sucks, I mean one like what metz made that takes one to two bonemeal to grow.
How does it take more than one bonemeal to make a tree grow? Unless you miss the hit box for the sapling and accidentally grow grass and flowers...I've been using bonemeal on saplings quite a bit lately and it never takes more than one swipe if I'm on target with the hit box. Now the size of the tree may vary but otherwise...I've never seen a situation where I needed more than one swipe. I'm probably missing something in what you mean though.
This is true. I was talking about a piston tree farm not just growing a tree in open area url54mvp, the saplings in automatic farms require multiple bonemeal attempts and I am in need of one that does not need so much bonemeal.