Sure, coal was easier to find, but charcoal is renewable, and I like that.
Even ignoring that, 8 logs becomes 7 charcoal, and planting is trivial, so its just faster to farm trees in the long run. Coal is for villagers that demand it, specifically, in early trades.
Now for smelting I like bamboo, you can fully automate it. Technically you can fully automate kelp now too with the crafter, but bamboo is easy. Just break it like sugarcane and funnel it to your furnace directly, done.
If you go mining or caving frequently (and don’t stay in the deepslate area the whole time) then you can build up a lot of coal, especially since with fortune III each coal block drops 2.2 coal on average
For sure but I still find it quicker to just spiral carve up a 2x2 spruce and chuck it all into a dedicated charcoal smelter that uses its own charcoal to smelt everything.
But if someone strip mines a ton, then yeah, coal as a byproduct is better, I suppose.
I always like renewables though. Even a slow or wasteful farm is better than doing it myself, when I play, so to each their own.
I’ve always used charcoal.
Sure, coal was easier to find, but charcoal is renewable, and I like that.
Even ignoring that, 8 logs becomes 7 charcoal, and planting is trivial, so its just faster to farm trees in the long run. Coal is for villagers that demand it, specifically, in early trades.
Now for smelting I like bamboo, you can fully automate it. Technically you can fully automate kelp now too with the crafter, but bamboo is easy. Just break it like sugarcane and funnel it to your furnace directly, done.
If you go mining or caving frequently (and don’t stay in the deepslate area the whole time) then you can build up a lot of coal, especially since with fortune III each coal block drops 2.2 coal on average
For sure but I still find it quicker to just spiral carve up a 2x2 spruce and chuck it all into a dedicated charcoal smelter that uses its own charcoal to smelt everything.
But if someone strip mines a ton, then yeah, coal as a byproduct is better, I suppose.
I always like renewables though. Even a slow or wasteful farm is better than doing it myself, when I play, so to each their own.