Coal
| Coal | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A lump of coal. | |
| Type | Material |
| Found In | All biomes |
| Location |
|
| Weight | 2 |
| Stack | 50 |
| Teleport | Yes |
| Crafting Station | - |
| Crafting Materials |
Cannot be crafted |
| Spawn ID | spawn Coal
|
Every Smelter and Forge burns Coal. That is why most of it ends up cooked at home in a Charcoal Kiln rather than farmed off the Surtlings that rise from the fire geysers of the Swamp.
What It Is For
It is burned as fuel in the Smelter and the Blast Furnace, and every bar of metal takes coal to smelt.
How to Get It
Surtlings spawn from the fire geysers dotted through the Swamp and drop coal when killed. A Geyser walled in with stakes or dug into a trap will farm them while you do something else. The steadier supply is the Charcoal Kiln, which turns any sort of wood into coal inside your own walls, so the only tool you need is the axe you already own. Meat left too long on a Cooking Station chars into coal as well, and the Obliterator turns junk and coins into it. Coal teleports freely.
Notes
- Smelting any metal with Coal as fuel takes roughly 2.1 Coal per 1 Metal.
- You can build a "passive" Coal farm in the Swamp by digging Fire Geysers down into the aquifer layer. The Surtlings they spawn then keep taking damage until they die and drop their loot.
- The Ashlands are a great place to farm Coal, and a Portal makes it easy to move to other locations. Place a Wood stack and light it with a Campfire or the Staff of Embers to quickly get 50 pieces of Coal per pile.
- By buying bait and putting it in the Obliterator, you can turn 5 Coins into 1 Coal.
Coal Crafting Recipes
Beyond fuelling furnaces, coal goes into the recipes below.
| Item | Image | Kind | Amount Used | Crafting Materials | Crafting Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape of Odin | 
|
Armour | 4 |
|
Workbench | spawn CapeOdin
|
| Hood of Odin | 
|
Armour | 4 |
|
Workbench | spawn HelmetOdin
|
| Pointy Hat | 
|
Armour | 5 | Workbench | spawn HelmetPointyHat
| |
| Mead Base: Poison Resistance | 
|
Meads & Potions | 10 | Mead ketill | spawn MeadBasePoisonResist
|
Coal Building Elements
It is also used in the build pieces listed here.
| Piece | Image | Section | Amount Used | Crafting Materials | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | 
|
Crafting Stations | 4 | spawn forge
| |
| Sign | 
|
Decoration | 1 | spawn sign
| |
| Hanging brazier | 
|
Lighting | 2 | spawn piece_brazierceiling01
| |
| Standing Brazier | 
|
Lighting | 2 |
|
spawn piece_brazierfloor01
|
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