Coal Ore

Obtaining and breaking Coal Ore

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Coal Ore, and the registry marks a suitable tool as required for the intended drop.
• Its recorded hardness is 3. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.

What to use Coal Ore for

1 current recipe relationship is recorded for Coal Ore. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Coal.
• Coal Ore is used by 1 recorded recipe, including Coal.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Coal Ore blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Coal Recipe has 6 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Coal Ore is an ore block whose mining tool and drop behaviour matter more than its decorative role. Check the mining section before collecting it so the intended drop is not lost.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Coal Ore has 1 recorded Java block-state combination, so its base state is comparatively simple.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 3; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Coal Ore exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:coal_ore; Bedrock uses minecraft:coal_ore.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:coal_ore 64

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