Coal Enhancements

Current release: 1.1.3 · Minecraft 26.3 · Fabric + Fabric API · Java 25

Mine it. Smelt it. Keep moving!

Turn Coal and Charcoal into early-game equipment that cooks drops as you work. Toggle Auto-Smelt to turn logs into Charcoal, eligible ore drops into Ingots, and Sand into Glass—without a separate furnace trip.

• Toggle Auto-Smelt per tool: press your configured Crouch control while holding a supported tool.
• Bring the heat: burning attacks can cook a mob's normal food drops.
• Cook a harvest: use the Hoe on supported mature crops and Kelp.
• Survive a mistake: a complete Coal Armour set blocks fire and lava damage, but burns through durability quickly. Get out before it breaks!

Auto-Smelt converts eligible newly mined drops into their furnace result.

Equipment and mechanics

The equipment set includes a Sword, Spear, Axe, Pickaxe, Shovel, Hoe, and four armour pieces. Use the in-game Recipe Book for the complete set; the reference tables below cover the standard tools.

Coal Armour

Every piece of Coal Armour has 400 durability.

Coal Armour is similar to Iron Armour, although its Chestplate and Leggings each provide one fewer armour point.

Fire and Lava Protection

Wearing the complete four-piece Coal Armour set protects you from fire and lava damage.

This protection is designed as an emergency safeguard rather than permanent lava equipment. While you are burning or standing in lava, durability drains extremely quickly from every equipped Coal Armour piece.

Move quickly—the protection only continues while the complete set remains intact!

Coal Tools

Coal tools have the same durability, mining speed, attack damage, and attack speed as their Stone equivalents.

Burning Attacks

Every Coal tool ignites enemies when used as a weapon:

• The Coal Sword burns its target for four seconds.
• The Axe, Pickaxe, Shovel, and Hoe burn their targets for two seconds.
• Raw food dropped by a mob that dies while burning is cooked normally.
• Activating the burn effect consumes one additional durability point per hit.

Burning attacks work independently of Auto-Smelt mode.

Auto-Smelt Mode

The Coal Axe, Pickaxe, Shovel, and Hoe each have a persistent Auto-Smelt toggle.

While holding one of these tools, press Crouch to switch its ability on or off. A message will appear above the hotbar confirming the current mode.

The setting is saved separately on each individual tool.

Axe, Pickaxe, and Shovel

When Auto-Smelt is enabled, newly created block drops with a valid furnace recipe are immediately converted into their smelted result.

Examples include:

• Logs becoming Charcoal
• Raw Ores becoming Ingots
• Sand and Red Sand becoming Glass
• Other furnace-smeltable block drops producing their normal smelted result

The transformed stack keeps the quantity that originally dropped, including additional items obtained through effects such as Fortune.

Only drops created by the current block break are affected. Items already lying nearby are never smelted retroactively.

Auto-Smelt consumes one additional durability point whenever at least one dropped item is successfully transformed.

Coal Hoe Cooking

With Auto-Smelt enabled, the Coal Hoe can instantly cook:

• Mature Potatoes into Baked Potatoes
• Kelp into Dried Kelp

Using this ability consumes one additional durability point.

Anvil Restrictions

To balance their special abilities, Coal tools and armour:

• Cannot be repaired in an Anvil
• Cannot receive Mending through an Anvil

Other valid enchantments and Anvil operations remain available when they do not repair the item or add Mending.

Crafting Recipes

Coal equipment is crafted using Coal, Charcoal, and Sticks.

Recipe legend:

• C = Coal
• X = Charcoal
• S = Stick
• · = Empty slot

Tool Recipes

The Axe and Hoe recipes can also be mirrored.

Armour Recipes

You can also use the in-game Recipe Book or see the Images tab for visual examples of every recipe.

Installation

Install Coal Enhancements and a matching Fabric API build on both the client and Fabric server. In single-player, install them in the client's mods folder.

Choose the file for your exact Minecraft version in the Files tab. Match the server's mod versions when playing multiplayer.

Recommended shaders — IterationT

IterationT fits the Vanilla Enhancements collection perfectly, and I strongly recommend playing with it! It completes the look of the pack while keeping Minecraft feeling like Minecraft. I'd love to include it in the pack, but I legally cannot redistribute it. Please download IterationT separately.

IterationT is not made by me and is not bundled with the mods or modpack. With a compatible shader loader installed, place the downloaded shader pack in your profile's shaderpacks folder and select it in-game. Shaders are optional; check compatibility with your Minecraft version and shader loader, and play without them if you need more performance.

Community and support

Explore the Vanilla Enhancements website for the full collection and guides, or join r/VanillaEnhancements to share your builds, ask questions, and follow updates.

Want the collection together? Get the Mineral Enhancements modpack and check its supported Minecraft version. The mods are also available individually.

These mods are developed by FireDragon1 as the Vanilla Enhancements collection.

Join mc.FireCrafting.net to play, or join the Discord for updates, questions, and bug reports.

For a bug report, include your Minecraft version, mod version, Fabric Loader version, the steps to reproduce it, and a relevant log or screenshot. Remove personal information and credentials from logs before sharing them.