An immersive way to make charcoal in Minecraft. Stack logs into a tightly packed pit, bury them under non-flammable blocks, and set the pile alight. A sealed, burning pit slowly smolders the logs into charcoal while venting smoke from the top.
Notice: This mod was made using AI
How it works
- Build the pit — Pack logs (
#minecraft:logs) into a hole or stack on the ground. - Cover it up — Bury every log under non-flammable, solid blocks (dirt, stone, sand, gravel, etc.). Every face of every log must touch either another log or a cover block.
- Light it — Right-click a log with flint and steel or a fire charge. Fire spreads through the touching pile.
- Wait — Sealed logs smolder and vent smoke from the top. Each finished log becomes a Charcoal Pile that drops 1–2 charcoal when dug out (fastest with a shovel; Fortune boosts drops like coal ore).
Uncovered burning logs burn away to nothing after a short time — seal the pit before the fire spreads too far.
Balance
- About 1–2 charcoal per log (~1.5 average), on par with a furnace
- No fuel required; the whole pile cooks in parallel
- Trade-off: build effort, flint-and-steel durability, real-time wait, and risk of losing unsealed logs
- Cook time scales with pit size:
charringTime + charringTimePerLog × (logs − 1)
| Pit size | Logs | Approx. cook time |
|---|---|---|
| 2×2×2 | 8 | ~95s |
| 3×3×3 | 27 | ~190s |
| 5×5×5 | 125 | ~11 min |
Charcoal can be crafted into a Block of Charcoal for storage (9 charcoal ↔ block), like vanilla coal blocks.
Configuration
File: config/simplecharcoalpit-common.toml
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
charringTime |
1200 |
Base ticks for a single-log pit |
charringTimePerLog |
100 |
Extra ticks per additional log |
burnoutTime |
600 |
Ticks before an exposed log burns away |
requireSturdyCover |
true |
Only full solid faces count as cover |
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge 21.1.233+
