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Simple Charcoal Pit

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Simple Charcoal Pit

By BlueShell77Owner

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Make charcoal the immersive way: bury a pit of logs, seal it with non-flammable blocks, light it, and smolder the pile into charcoal.

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Description

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

  1. Build the pit — Pack logs (#minecraft:logs) into a hole or stack on the ground.
  2. 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.
  3. Light it — Right-click a log with flint and steel or a fire charge. Fire spreads through the touching pile.
  4. 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+

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