In this guide, you will learn how to make Charcoal while playing Minecraft.
Making Charcoal in Minecraft comes in handy because you can use it in place of Coal as a fuel. You can craft torches with it and smelt or cook items in the furnace.
How to Get Charcoal in Minecraft
You can craft Charcoal by smelting wood or logs as ingredients in a furnace. Here are the steps to create it easily:
- Craft a Furnace with 8x Cobblestone blocks (if you haven’t already).
- Open up the Furnace Menu.
- Add Fuel in the Furnace and also add Wood or Logs in the top and bottom boxes.
- When you see the flames cooking it, that’s how you will get the Charcoal in the result box on the right side.
- Now move the Charcoal to your inventory.
How to Use Charcoal in Minecraft
Charcoal can be used as a crafting ingredient in a Campfire, Fire Charge, Gunpowder, Soul Torch and Torch. You can also use it to power Minecarts.
A single Charcoal will burn for 80 seconds. It cannot be traded with villagers. Therefore, it is ideal to use Charcoal where coal is more difficult to obtain.
Minecraft is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios and released in 2011 for PC, Mac, and Linux.