How to Craft Gunpowder Using Charcoal

If you are low on mined coal or prefer to conserve it for other recipes, you can use renewable charcoal to craft gunpowder instead.

Preparing the Charcoal

1. Chop down trees to obtain standard wooden logs.

2. Place a furnace down and open its interface.

3. Put wooden logs into the top ingredient slot, then add any suitable fuel (such as planks, sticks, or extra logs) into the bottom fuel slot.

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Crafting the Gunpowder

1. Open your inventory (press E) or right-click a crafting table.

2. Place your freshly smelted charcoal into any empty slot in the crafting grid.

3. Add one redstone dust, one glowstone dust, and one piece of flint into the remaining empty slots.

4. Take the gunpowder from the output box.

The recipe treats coal and charcoal interchangeably, so you do not need to change the arrangement or add extra steps when switching between them.