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How to Craft Block of Coal in Minecraft

Block of Coal in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Compact coal storage. Minecraft has used the name Block of Coal since 1.6.1.

Making a Block of Coal takes 9 Coal at a Crafting Table. The pattern to copy is nine Coal filling every cell. A single craft gives you 1 Block of Coal. Blocks of Coal double as furnace fuel: 16000 ticks each, so 1 of them smelt a full stack of 64.

Block of Coal Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Block of Coal is minecraft:coal_block. In commands the namespace may be left off, so coal_block works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p coal_block
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p coal_block 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve coal_block 1

Cheats have to be on for Block of Coal to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Block of Coal stores 9 coal and can smelt 80 items in a furnace. Block of Coal uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Block of Coal since 1.6.1, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with coal (mine coal ore).

The Yield Per Stack

64 coal is 7 crafts here, or 7 block of coal once the grid stops. You keep 1 coal for later.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
CoalCoalCoal9xMine coal ore

To make Block of Coal you will gather 9x Coal (mine coal ore), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    CoalCoal9x Coal

  2. 2

    Block of Coal

Minecraft crafting recipe for Block of Coal: 9 x Coal in a crafting table, making 1 Block of Coal.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 9x Coal before you open the Crafting Table. Coal: mine coal ore.

Uses for Block of Coal

  • Compact coal storage
  • Fuel that smelts 80 items

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Block of Coal on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Block of Coal in Minecraft?
9 Coal at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Block of Coal. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Block of Coal.
Can you craft a Block of Coal without a crafting table?
Not this one: a Block of Coal will not fit the inventory grid. It is laid out as nine Coal filling every cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Block of Coal?
Here is where each part of a Block of Coal comes from. Coal: mine coal ore.
How many Blocks of Coal do you get from one craft?
The Block of Coal recipe makes one Block of Coal per craft.
What is the item ID for Block of Coal in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Block of Coal goes by minecraft:coal_block; coal_block without the namespace does the same job in a command.
Can you farm everything you need for a Block of Coal?
Block of Coal needs nothing you have to go find: coal from wither skeletons. Set those up once and you can keep making block of coal.
What is the give command for Block of Coal?
/give @p coal_block gives you a Block of Coal. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Block of Coal recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Block of Coal takes 9 Coal at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
Can you burn a Block of Coal as fuel?
A Block of Coal burns for 800 seconds in a furnace, which at ten seconds per item works out to 80 smelted, or 5120 from a full stack of 64. That beats a single piece of coal, which smelts eight.
How many Blocks of Coal fit in one stack?
A Block of Coal stacks to 64, so a full inventory of 36 slots holds 2304 of them.
What version of Minecraft added the Block of Coal?
Minecraft 1.6.1 is the oldest release that calls the block of coal by that name. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
9 Coal in, 1 Block of Coal out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.6.1 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Block of Coal per craft against the stack size.

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