What all can you do with coal because I found a mine that has a lot of coal in it and everyday I probably collect 128 things of coal. Well, Minecraft days that is. So I wanted to know what you can do with coal.
I use it to make stone bricks... Well not directly, but smelt cobble to smooth, and then craft them into stone bricks...
I know you can use silk touch on regular stone, but I don't want to waste my time with doing that unless I am using it in my builds. Silk touch is better for other things anyway...
Other than that, like everyone else has said: Torches (making some into pumpkin lanterns) and other smelting.
At least you don't have to use charcoal because of that.:D
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funny i have a world with a couple of swampy islands and i CANT FIND COAL. I have to use sapplings. Use coal for torches, cooking, making cobblestone into regular stone and cooking ores. Coal is essential
Coal lumps are items harvested directly from coal ore blocks. They are the third most efficient fuel available for furnaces (after lava buckets and blaze rods), being able to smelt eight units per lump of coal. Coal lumps and charcoal are also the only fuels accepted by powered minecarts (providing approximately four minutes of transit each).
The only purpose for which coal could be considered required is the creation of torches, which are essential for prolonged underground exploration - although there are other permanent light sources, none come close in terms of convenience and availability. Carrying a full stack of coal and 8 Wood allows you to craft up to 256 torches. Perhaps the next-best alternative to coal-based lighting would be Netherrack, which, if manually ignited, burns forever. -Minecraft Wiki http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Coal
Coal lumps are items harvested directly from coal ore blocks. They are the third most efficient fuel available for furnaces (after lava buckets and blaze rods), being able to smelt eight units per lump of coal. Coal lumps and charcoal are also the only fuels accepted by powered minecarts (providing approximately four minutes of transit each).
The only purpose for which coal could be considered required is the creation of torches, which are essential for prolonged underground exploration - although there are other permanent light sources, none come close in terms of convenience and availability. Carrying a full stack of coal and 8 Wood allows you to craft up to 256 torches. Perhaps the next-best alternative to coal-based lighting would be Netherrack, which, if manually ignited, burns forever. -Minecraft Wiki http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Coal
I don't see how lava or rods could be even efficient...>< after all you would chance loss of possible smelted materials because you left it burning too long. So the only way it is more efficient than coal/charcoal is time in a manner of speaking. No I do not mean it cooks faster, but more like you just don't have to put so many in, however coal is #1 in the waste/used ratio.
For example, lava supposedly does 100 blocks smeltings. Well you chance a production loss of 36 from that at most. I would rather use 8 coal/charcoal for 1 stack than a few lava thingys for several stacks. It all burns just as long, so time frame when they are done is the same. Although wouldn't mind them making a coal block that could cook a stack with 1 block. Wishful thinking...lol
All depends on how you look at it I suppose.:D
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What all can you do with coal because I found a mine that has a lot of coal in it and everyday I probably collect 128 things of coal. Well, Minecraft days that is. So I wanted to know what you can do with coal.
1st question: Are you kidding me?
2nd question: How have you kept the monsters away and been able to see in caves?
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I don't see how lava or rods could be even efficient...>< after all you would chance loss of possible smelted materials because you left it burning too long. So the only way it is more efficient than coal/charcoal is time in a manner of speaking. No I do not mean it cooks faster, but more like you just don't have to put so many in, however coal is #1 in the waste/used ratio.
For example, lava supposedly does 100 blocks smeltings. Well you chance a production loss of 36 from that at most. I would rather use 8 coal/charcoal for 1 stack than a few lava thingys for several stacks. It all burns just as long, so time frame when they are done is the same. Although wouldn't mind them making a coal block that could cook a stack with 1 block. Wishful thinking...lol
All depends on how you look at it I suppose.
Hey man, I didn't write it. Blame whomever wrote that article on the wiki. cause I agree with you completely.
this is a <faceplam> topic to anyone who is good at minecraft. **giant faceplam**
coal sre used in furnace to make iron and gold ingot and to cook food.
Hey man, I didn't write it. Blame whomever wrote that article on the wiki. cause I agree with you completely.
I am not against you, as someone put it. I was only putting a response to what you wrote. lol
Whether you were supporting what you rewrote over to here or not was irrelevant. Well at least to what I was writing. I don't mean to come off like I am attacking or pointing fingers. I guess my communication skills needs work...><
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I am not against you, as TayWolf put it. I was only putting a response to what you wrote. lol
Whether you were supporting what you rewrote over to here or not was irrelevant. Well at least to what I was writing. I don't mean to come off like I am attacking or pointing fingers. I guess my communication skills needs work...><
When I say going against, I simply mean not agreeing I guess. I came In to strong with that post.
What all can you do with coal because I found a mine that has a lot of coal in it and everyday I probably collect 128 things of coal. Well, Minecraft days that is. So I wanted to know what you can do with coal.
For one, mining the coal blocks will give you XP. You can then use it as fuel in your furnace, or to craft torches.
I agree that it is very easy to get overrun with coal if you mine a lot of it, and since it gives XP, I'm tending to mine more of it these days. However, since I'm doing a one-chest challenge right now, its abundance is causing some problems. It's basic uses are, of course:
1. Making Torches
2. Fueling your Furnace
You can also,
3. Mine it with a silk touch pickaxe and use it as a building block. It looks quite good as a sporadic block in large stone walls.
... and one I just found about today:
4. Make furnace-powered minecarts that will burn coal to run. I haven't tried it out as yet, but the Wiki suggests that you can put these carts behind other empty minecarts to push them along. This means than rather than placing powered rails every 8 or so blocks to keep empty carts moving, you can space your power rails 25 or so blocks apart. Carts will players in them will move along just fine at this bigger spacing, but empty carts will stall out, so the furnace cart may just solve two of my current one-chest problems... a lack of gold for powered rails and using up the coal that is currently taking up too much space in my chest.
I know you can use silk touch on regular stone, but I don't want to waste my time with doing that unless I am using it in my builds. Silk touch is better for other things anyway...
Other than that, like everyone else has said: Torches (making some into pumpkin lanterns) and other smelting.
At least you don't have to use charcoal because of that.:D
Stay fluffy~
The only purpose for which coal could be considered required is the creation of torches, which are essential for prolonged underground exploration - although there are other permanent light sources, none come close in terms of convenience and availability. Carrying a full stack of coal and 8 Wood allows you to craft up to 256 torches. Perhaps the next-best alternative to coal-based lighting would be Netherrack, which, if manually ignited, burns forever. -Minecraft Wiki http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Coal
This is gonna remain false until ovens give back empty buckets when you cook/smelt with buckets of lava...
I don't see how lava or rods could be even efficient...>< after all you would chance loss of possible smelted materials because you left it burning too long. So the only way it is more efficient than coal/charcoal is time in a manner of speaking. No I do not mean it cooks faster, but more like you just don't have to put so many in, however coal is #1 in the waste/used ratio.
For example, lava supposedly does 100 blocks smeltings. Well you chance a production loss of 36 from that at most. I would rather use 8 coal/charcoal for 1 stack than a few lava thingys for several stacks. It all burns just as long, so time frame when they are done is the same. Although wouldn't mind them making a coal block that could cook a stack with 1 block. Wishful thinking...lol
All depends on how you look at it I suppose.:D
1st question: Are you kidding me?
2nd question: How have you kept the monsters away and been able to see in caves?
Hey man, I didn't write it. Blame whomever wrote that article on the wiki.
coal sre used in furnace to make iron and gold ingot and to cook food.
I am not against you, as someone put it. I was only putting a response to what you wrote. lol
Whether you were supporting what you rewrote over to here or not was irrelevant. Well at least to what I was writing. I don't mean to come off like I am attacking or pointing fingers. I guess my communication skills needs work...><
For one, mining the coal blocks will give you XP. You can then use it as fuel in your furnace, or to craft torches.
1. Making Torches
2. Fueling your Furnace
You can also,
3. Mine it with a silk touch pickaxe and use it as a building block. It looks quite good as a sporadic block in large stone walls.
... and one I just found about today:
4. Make furnace-powered minecarts that will burn coal to run. I haven't tried it out as yet, but the Wiki suggests that you can put these carts behind other empty minecarts to push them along. This means than rather than placing powered rails every 8 or so blocks to keep empty carts moving, you can space your power rails 25 or so blocks apart. Carts will players in them will move along just fine at this bigger spacing, but empty carts will stall out, so the furnace cart may just solve two of my current one-chest problems... a lack of gold for powered rails and using up the coal that is currently taking up too much space in my chest.