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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, nor can it be crafted into a block of coal. Coal and charcoal cannot stack together either. It can be used as a substitute for coal, as both charcoal and coal have an equivalent duration when smelted.
Obtaining
Breaking
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.[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Usage
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Charge | Blaze Powder + Charcoal + Gunpowder |
|
| Soul Torch | Charcoal + Stick + Soul Sand |
|
| Torch | Charcoal + Stick |
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Stick + Coal or Charcoal + Any Log or Stem or Any Stripped Log or Stem or Any Wood or Hyphae or Any Stripped Wood or Hyphae |
Lab table ingredient
Charcoal is one of the lab table ingredients needed to produce the heat block.[Minecraft Education only]
| 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.
Coal and charcoal are also the only fuels accepted by furnace minecarts. They provide approximately four minutes of transit each.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | charcoal | Item | item.minecraft.charcoal |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Item tags (JE) | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | charcoal | coal / 1 | 303 | Item | minecraft:coals | item.charcoal.name |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Renewable Energy | Smelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal. | Smelt a wooden log with charcoal as the fuel. | 10G | Bronze | ||
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 25, 2010 | In 0.3.2, charcoal was suggested to Notch by @Moleculor on Twitter as a writing implement. | ||||
| 1.2 |  Added charcoal, with the same texture as coal.
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| 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 | ? | Charcoal is now directly available in the creative inventory. | |||
| 1.3 |  The texture of charcoal has been changed. | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a |  The texture of charcoal has been changed. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Charcoal can no longer be traded from villagers. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the coal ID have been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 263. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of charcoal has been changed. | |||
| 19w02a | Charcoal can now be used to craft campfires. Destroying a campfire returns 2 charcoal. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added charcoal, with the same texture as coal. It is not yet obtainable. | ||||
| v0.3.2 | Charcoal is now obtainable by smelting wood in a furnace. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | The texture of charcoal has been changed. | |||
| v0.8.1 | The texture of charcoal has been changed. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Added stripped log variants, which can be smelted to obtain charcoal. | |||
| 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. | |||
| The textures of charcoal has been changed. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Charcoal are now used to craft soul fire torches. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of charcoal has been changed from coal/1 to charcoal. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added charcoal. |
| ? | The texture of charcoal has been changed. | ||||
| 1.90 | The texture of charcoal has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added charcoal. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Charcoal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
How it's renewable
Charcoal comes from smelting log. Logs are renewable and charcoal can be used as fuel to smelt logs