Coal blocks are found amongst stone blocks.
Coal block minecraft. Coal ore is a mineral block that drops coal when mined. One block of coal lasts 800 seconds 16000 ticks which smelts 80 items. Blocks of coal can be used as fuel in a furnace. One block of coal lasts 800 seconds 16000 ticks which smelts 80 items.
1 obtaining 1 1 natural generation 1 2 breaking 2 usage 2 1 smelting ingredient 3 sounds 4 data values 4 1 id 5 history 6 issues 7 gallery 8 references coal ore can generate in the overworld in the form of mineral veins. When first introduced in minecraft 1 6 snapshots it had a recolored block of redstone texture soon changed to what is it now. Stone blocks can be found alongside mountains cliff sides in caves or underground. Like other blocks of its kind it s a compact way to store the material.
Though made from 9 coal able to smelt 72 items one block of coal can actually smelt 80 items making it a more efficient form of long term fuel. This is ten times the duration of a single piece of coal and 1 1 9 times as efficient 11 11 as nine individual pieces of coal which would only smelt 72 items. Since minecraft worlds are randomly generated there is no way to say exactly where you will find coal blocks. The block of coal is a block that was added in the 13w18a snapshot.
It can be used as a way to store coal more efficiently as it can be exchanged for exactly 9 coal items again by placing it in a crafting table. It may also be used as a building block.