Coal

Coal
	A lump of coal
Properties
Type	Mineral
Made With/By	Mining
Default Ore Veins per Chunk	20 veins per chunk
Ore Vein Size	17 blocks
Minimum Ore Height	0
Maximum Ore Height	127
Difficulty of Production	Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	N/A

Coal is a common, combustible, and black in color material present in the base game that is widely used in NTM. It is used as fuel (in furnaces, the blast furnace, and the firebox), as a source of carbon to produce steel, and to craft vanilla utilities such as torches, making coal a vital material in progression.

Production

Coal can be found naturally via mining coal ore, which can be found most abundantly in blobs of 0-37 blocks, from Y=5 to Y=52, though it generates until Y=128. Upon mining coal ore, coal dust will be released, and once the player is exposed, the emissions will cause black lung poisoning. Black lung can also be caused by holding any item with the Coal Dust property, with coal powder beinf three times as hazardous.

Alternatively, charcoal can be made by smelting wood in a furnace, although it cannot properly substitute coal in a lot of recipes.

Coal Powder

Coal powder is the powder form of coal, which can be used to produce coal briquettes in a press. It can be produced by shredding coal.

Uses

As mentioned before, coal can be used to create torches. For effective storage, coal can be turned into compact coal blocks. It can also be used to create steel in a blast furnace or crucible as a carbon source.