A combustible mineral which needs to be crushed into usable fuel.
Weight4000 gMax stack20Carried on backResource pile
Notes
Coal is a combustible mineral ore that must be crushed into usable fuel before it can be burned. It is mined with a tier 2 pickaxe and appears in Grassland (12–60m), RainForest (25–45m), and Wetland (0–60m) biomes. Crushed coal is used in recipes like Metallurgy Research Papers and as fuel, so crushing raw coal is a necessary early step for industrial progress.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
As a block
Mining hardness2On miningdrops rubbleSolidWall
Mining
Hardness 2 is the minimum pickaxe tier that can mine this block.
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Grassland at 12–60m, scattered, (100% chance)
Rainforest at 25–45m, veins of 15–100, (15% chance)
Wetland at 0–60m, veins of 40–300, (100% chance)