Making Charcoal

The Charcoal Pit is a way of obtaining Charcoal. Charcoal pits are made with Log Piles. To place a log pile, Right Click and Shift while holding a Log. More logs can be inserted by either pressing Right Click directly while holding a log, or by pressing Right Click with something else to open the interface.

The Log Pile

The charcoal pit is formed by surrounding log piles with solid, non-flammable blocks. The amount of charcoal produced is proportional to the amount of logs contained inside the log piles. To start the burning process, light one of the log piles, and then cover it. If it worked, you should see smoke particles rise up from the structure.
You can make a charcoal pit any size and shape so long as its fully insulated.
By default the charcoal pit will take 18 in-game hours.

After the charcoal pit burns out and stops smoking, you will be left with Charcoal piles. The charcoal pile contains up to 8 layers of Charcoal. Dig it with a shovel to obtain the charcoal items. Charcoal piles can be added to or placed with Right Click.

TIP: Do not cover your charcoal pit with a dense material like cobblestone, or it may fall and destroy your charcoal when completed.

Coke Oven

The Coke Oven is a multiblock that can automatically convert logs into charcoal and coal into Coke while producing Creosote. This structure becomes available when you first produce Wrought Iron and it is recommended to make one as soon as possible. Coke ovens are a massive quality of life upgrade for charcoal production, and both coke and creosote will be necessary for progression.

Coke Oven Tips

• Coke ovens can have up to 4 hatches, replacing any coke oven brick.
• Coke ovens must be hollow in the center.
• The coke oven input hatch may get clogged with the output item. To avoid this, have an item pipe facing the input hatch with its flow direction set. You can use a hopper or chute to push into that pipe.
• Crates are able to hold logs, unlike chests.
• Save all your creosote!