Coal Ore

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Coal Ore
Default Texture
Destroyable	Multiple hits
Solid	Yes
Gravity	No
Special Function	None

Coal ore is found commonly underground embedded in stone. It is mainly used as a fuel in smelting metals such as iron and gold. The Ore is used directly as a Crafting Material instead of just the Coal which at the moment can't be extracted from Coal Ore.

It is also very important for Torches. These are items that need to be crafted early in the game, providing the player with light.

Coal Ore is generated in large patches, one patch sometimes containing hundred blocks of Coal Ore. Those patches are mined fastest by first digging a way in, then spam-clicking while turning around.

Coal Ore is one of the few items that have to be mined with more than just one mouse click. Either you need to hold your mouse button, or you need to click about twenty times before the block breaks. The existence of this durability also points to a possible addition of tools that modify the mining speed.

One patch of Coal can become a resource that the player visits not once, but mines always that much he needs.

Coal Ore is usually found faster than other Ores such as Iron or Gold Ores.

Crafting

Coal Ore is an important Crafting Material. First, it can be crafted into Torches by adding Coal Ore to Wood. Then it can "smelt" Iron Ore/Gold Ore to Iron Blocks/Gold Blocks. You do this by Crafting Coal Ore with Iron Ore/Gold Ore in a ratio of 1:1.

Two Gravel can be "molten" to Asphalt.

Also you can refine Iron using Coal Ore, creating Brushed Metal.

Input	Addition	→	Output
Wood	Coal Ore	→	Torch
Iron Ore	Coal Ore	→	Iron Block
Gold Ore	Coal Ore	→	Gold Block
Iron Block	Coal Ore	→	Brushed Metal
Gravel, 2	Coal Ore	→	Asphalt