Coal block

[LottoBall27]

So, how quickly do you guys think the coal block is going to be nerfed? Do you think its going to be nerfed at all?

[DNoved1]

Based on FC's seeming indifference towards it as well as the fact that it's mostly a asthetic block, I'm guessing it won't be removed. I doubt it will be nerfed though, since that's mostly pointless.

Of course, I'm not the one in charge, so who knows?

P.S. Might be totally misinterpreting FC's quote >_>

[Vexalor]

I agree with DNoved. I doubt FlowerChild will do anything to the coal block, just as he didn't do anything with the redstone block in 1.5. I would honestly be more worried about something coming from Mojang's end at this point. There have been rumors that they might just do something about the current un-intuitive nature of using the coal block as fuel, in which case FC might step up to do something.

[eternal8phoenix]

As far as I know, the coal block is actually kinda wasteful as a fuel source. It does burn for 64+8 ticks, as you'd expect, but in order to get the most out of it, you have to babysit the furnace to swap out stuff when the stack you're smelting is finished. And seriously, who has time for that?

In BTW, assuming no functionality gets ripped from it, it'd make a long burning light source but at the cost of precious coal, and why would you bother anyway as you can get the same effect from 9 coal in the furnace? It'd be inefficient as you could use the 9 coal to permanently light a larger area.

And as it cannot be made from charcoal it's basically just reduced to a storage block.

[Mason11987]

There's nothing particularly valuable or useful about it anyway, besides just compressed storage (which is a pretty insignificant gain as it is) so there's no real reason to nerf, as nerfing generally implies reducing something that was too strong to be normal, and this coal block is, if anything, less useful then coal.

[Educated_Fool]

I read on the minecraft wiki that the block burns long enough to cook 80 items (9 coal would cook 72) is that correct? (haven't played with the snapshots myself)

[FlowerChild]

Useless thread is useless. If you want to talk about upcoming vanilla stuff, there's a thread for that.