Coal comes from ” Minecraft ” and is a renewable resource . It is harvested from coal ore and 1-3 obtained by killing wither skeletons. Coal ore can be mined using any pickaxe . The main use is as fuel or to make torches , and some villagers can exchange 15 coal for an emerald .   get   The most basic method is to mine coal ore. Mining a coal ore with a pickaxe will drop one coal, and mining it with a luck- enchanted pickaxe has a chance to drop more coal. Mining a coal ore has a 2/3 chance of dropping an experience orb.   Killing wither skeletons also has a chance to drop 1-3 coal. This makes coal a renewable resource.   If coal ore is mined with a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe , a coal ore block will be dropped. Coal ore can be smelted into 1 coal, but since it can be mined directly into coal, burning coal ore into coal is far from ideal.   use   As a fuel for the furnace, coal is a very efficient item. One coal can smelt 8 units of items.   Another important function of coal is to create torches, which are indispensable items for underground exploration. Although there are other sources of permanent lighting in the game, none are as easy to obtain and convenient as torches. ( You can make 256 torches with a set of coal and 8 wood , and you’ll find plenty of coal as you dig.)   Coal ore can be found in the overworld at heights less than 132 meters, and is often found on exposed stone. It is the most abundant mineral resource, and each vein can mine 1-40 coal mines or even more. 9 coals can be used to craft a coal block . Coal blocks have greater smelting efficiency than coal: one coal block can smelt 80 units of items, which is equivalent to the smelting efficiency of ten coals. However, coal blocks are only necessary when smelting more than 80 units of items.   bean knowledge   Notch said in a video that charcoal was obtained by directly renaming the coal class file in the source code, which explains why they behave exactly the same.   ·Because charcoal and coal have different data values, they cannot stack.   ·There was no charcoal in the creative mode inventory and could only be obtained through smelting. But after 12w21b, charcoal can already be found in the creative mode inventory, placed together with coal.   ·Before version 1.5, the textures of charcoal and coal were the same. After 13w19a, charcoal has a different texture than coal.   ·Coal can be made into coal blocks, but charcoal cannot.