Block of Coal is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 9 items: 9 Coal. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table.
You need 9 Coal — 9 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 1× Block of Coal.
Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.
It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.
Block of Coal is an ingredient in 1 crafting recipe, for example Coal.
