Minecraft
How to Craft Charcoal in Minecraft
To craft charcoal in Minecraft you need one log and a furnace. Put the log in the top slot, fuel underneath, and one charcoal comes out on the right. Below are the items, the recipe, and where that log comes from.
1 Oak Log
Charcoal| Item | Qty | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Log |
1 | Punch or axe an oak tree. Any overworld log type also converts to its matching planks. |
Charcoal specs
- Difficulty
- Early game
- Where it lives
- Smelted. A campfire broken by hand also drops two charcoal.
- Where to get it
- Put a log in the top of a furnace with fuel underneath. Two sticks cover one smelt.
- Item ID
-
minecraft:charcoal - Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Material
- Item
- Diggable
- No
- Give command
-
/give @p minecraft:charcoal 1
Ingredient specs
Oak Log
Early game- Where to get it
- Punch or axe an oak tree. Any overworld log type also converts to its matching planks.
- Where it lives
- Oak trees in forests, plains, and villages in the Overworld.
- Item ID
minecraft:oak_log- Legacy item ID
minecraft:log- Numerical ID
17- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 2
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
A log from any tree
Punch or axe an oak — birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove and cherry work the same. One log is one charcoal. A stripped log or a wood block smelts the same way.
Log in the furnace
Open a furnace. Log in the top slot, fuel underneath — two sticks cover one smelt, or a plank. When the arrow fills, one charcoal sits on the right; take it. That piece then smelts eight more logs.
Torches and eight smelts
Put the charcoal on a stick on the Crafting Table for four torches. As furnace fuel it lasts eighty seconds, eight items. Break a campfire by hand and two charcoal drop.
