#minecraft coal

Smelting coal ore with coal to make more coal...

Mining for coal on the hillside. It’s not exciting wizard work, but I need to coal to keep my furnaces running. The next job is to gather iron so that I can forge some iron tools and armor.

This is still a new game for me and finding and collecting coal is important on the first day. I like to have a lot of torches on hand before descending below ground to survive the first night.

Here I am mining for coal on the side of a cliff in Minecraft. This is one of the big mountains near where I spawned in my new survival mode game. Gotta get some coal to fire up the furnace once I dig in for my overnight cave.

An overhead view of the peninsula that I spawned into at the beginning of my survival mode game. You can see it’s near some pretty tall mountains and there’s also a nice stone plateau there. Those flat areas in the mountain biomes are great for mining coal. I’ll start by digging a cave there to survive the first night but eventually I’ll build a house and a small farm on the peninsula. First I have to clear all the trees.

Durr Monkey mining coal at the top of a mountain. I think coal mining above ground, where you can easily find it, is one of the best ways to get XP in the early part of the game.