Materials & resources
Coal
Coal is a materials & resources item with 6 current Java and Bedrock recipe variants. It is also an ingredient in 6 recipe outputs, including Block of Coal Recipe, Campfire Recipe, Copper Torch Recipe.
Coal- Item ID
- minecraft:coal
- Numeric ID
- 924
- Stack size
- 64
- Edition
- Java
- Recipe relationships
- 7
How to obtain Coal
- Craft or process Coal at Crafting Table or Furnace or Blast Furnace using one of the 6 current recipe variants.
- Open the Coal Recipe guide for the exact ingredients, grid positions, output quantity and edition-specific alternatives.
Crafting and processing relationships
- Block of Coal Recipe — 2 current variants
- Campfire Recipe — 71 current variants
- Coal Recipe — 6 current variants
- Copper Torch Recipe — 2 current variants
- Fire Charge Recipe — 3 current variants
- Soul Torch Recipe — 4 current variants
- Torch Recipe — 4 current variants
Uses, durability and repair
- Use Coal to make Block of Coal Recipe, Campfire Recipe, Copper Torch Recipe, Fire Charge Recipe, Soul Torch Recipe and 1 more recipe outputs.
- Coal stacks to 64, so one full shulker box can hold 1,728 of it.
A full inventory slot holds 64 items; 27 slots hold 1728, and a double chest holds 3456.
Command
/give @p minecraft:coal 64/give- Gives an item to the selected target.
@p- The nearest player to where the command runs.
minecraft:coal- The namespaced identifier for Coal.
64- The number of items to give.
Component syntax can change between releases. This identifier is pinned to the current Java 26.2 registry used by this page.