How to make charcoal in Minecraft – Easy Steps

Casting is an important crafting process in Minecraft. It is used to create dyes, cook food, make glass, and extract important minerals like iron. At the heart of the smelting process is the furnace (or blast furnace) and there is fuel. Fuel is what drives the smelting process, that is, lighting the fire and coal is the most widely used and easy to find fuel in Minecraft. With that said, there are other fuel blocks you can use.

Coal in Minecraft

As a fuel, charcoal is as efficient as charcoal and 5 times more efficient than wood planks. It does not occur naturally and therefore must be worked out. Making ingredients for charcoal is easy to find and easy to make, but when compared to charcoal, it turns out to be a much more expensive fuel to use in a smelting process.

Charcoal has other uses besides fuel; It is used to craft a campfire, a soul torch, and a fire charge. It is highly unlikely that you will use it to melt something unless you just can’t find charcoal, which is impossible.

How to make charcoal in Minecraft

To make charcoal, you need;

• Wood
• Wood or charcoal planks (or any other fuel, for example algae)
• An oven

To make charcoal, you need to melt wood. Any type of wood will do. Find the closest tree and get as much wood as you want to make charcoal. A block of wood will give you a charcoal.

1. Open the kiln.
2. Place the wood in the casting cell.
3. Place your favorite fuel into the fuel slot.
4. Collect coal once the process is finished.

Another method of obtaining charcoal.

If you find a campfire, for example, in a village, and you have a tool (ax) with the silk touch enchantment, you can use it to break the campfire and it will throw out two charcoals. Needless to say, this is a tedious method of obtaining charcoal, especially if you plan to use it to create your own fire pits around your base.

conclusion

Coal was added in Minecraft in 2010, however, at the time, it didn’t do much. In fact, it looked like charcoal and you wouldn’t know if you had charcoal or charcoal in your inventory back then. Since then it has changed a lot, both in visual appearance and in what it can do. Charcoal now looks distinctly different from charcoal and is an ingredient in 3-4 different items. Charcoal is available in all versions of Minecraft (Java, Bedrock, etc.).