How to Make Coal in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make Coal in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Coal recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 1 Coal Block in a Crafting Table to make 9 Coal.

Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 9 Coal. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Coal

Process 1 Coal Ore in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Coal.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 6.4 XP in total.

Output: 1 Coal

Process 1 Deepslate Coal Ore in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Coal.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 6.4 XP in total.

Output: 1 Coal

Process 1 Coal Ore in a Furnace to make 1 Coal.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 6.4 XP in total.

Output: 1 Coal

Process 1 Deepslate Coal Ore in a Furnace to make 1 Coal.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 6.4 XP in total.

Output: 1 Coal

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Coal. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.