Spend your excess redstone to upgrade your coal into Activated Coal, which burns twice as long.
The recipe is 8 redstone dust and 1 coal in the middle for 1 Activated Coal.
Activated Coal can smelt 16 items per coal. It does not have a block form.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as activatedcoal-1.0-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 23 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.