How to Make Fruit and Vegetable Charcoal

Smelting Your Produce

The mod adds smelting recipes that turn common food items into their charcoal forms. Feed Apple, Beet, Carrot, Potato, Melon, Sugarcane, Bread, Egg, and Chorus Fruit into a furnace to obtain Apple Charcoal, Beet Charcoal, Carrot Charcoal, Potato Charcoal, Melon Charcoal, Sugarcane Charcoal, Bread Charcoal, Egg Charcoal, and Chorus Fruit Charcoal respectively. Fuel the furnace as you normally would and let each item finish before loading the next, since these are all standard smelting recipes.

Why Each Type Matters

Every charcoal type you produce this way has a matching storage block: Block of Apple Charcoal, Block of Beet Charcoal, Block of Carrot Charcoal, Block of Potato Charcoal, Block of Melon Charcoal, Block of Sugarcane Charcoal, Block of Bread Charcoal, Block of Egg Charcoal, and Block of Chorus Charcoal. Smelt a full stack of each food if you want enough material to fill a block, because compressing into a block consumes nine of the corresponding charcoal. Prioritize the foods you farm most — Sugarcane and Potato are renewable in bulk, while Chorus Fruit requires access to the End. Smelt what you have, then move the finished charcoal to your crafting area for block compression.