a use for coal

[Thedrah]

coal is used for finery forge, crucible, smelter, making steel, 1 gilding, and making a snowman. all but making a snowman is preferably to use higher q

i got a mine full of 20-40q coal and i'm making 150+q coal in a tar kiln. it can't be used as a stone and the best thing i can do is use it as filler coal in a smelter to extend my higher q coal which feels like i'm cheesing the game mechanics

can we get a curio, symbel, or something to spend coal on? or what do you guys use your low q fuel on other than extending higher q fuel like in a smelter
nb4 cooking/kiln: if i can use sticks, i will as it's easier to chop a tree than mine coal for higher q fuel

[MrPunchers]

Make l o t s of snowmen. But anywho, not every item needs uses when they're low quality, you're pretty much only gonna use your high quality coal and it's fine that way.

[Aceb]

Sure, lets not be able to post stuff on runestones unless we have coal in our inventory to write with ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Ukhata]

use low q coal for smelting silver and gold.
also for making low q metals that you use for structures.
and ofc just for materials you like to make in bulk, like seers bowls and other metal stuff that use a lot of easily obtained high q materials to up the quality

[Amanda44]

^^ This is what I do with my lower q coal, but, I wouldn't mind a new curio we could use it in, maybe one tailored for early game when we first use our tar kilns and end up with a ton of q10 coal, lol, and maybe one for mid-game with added mats to boost the quality.

[vatas]

Also if you make tar from q10 blocks you'll end up with q10 charcoal that is essentially a waste product.

[✧]

is charcoal the same as coal?

activated charcoal can be used as a medicine

charcoal can be used for drawing ... "artist's notepad" curio, maybe?

both of these ideas sound like they'd be affected by quality q though, so might not fit here.

[Granger]

use low q coal for smelting silver and gold.
also for making low q metals that you use for structures.

Has the smelter quality bug been finally fixed?

[abt79]

Like the crucible itself, the quality of the coal you use as fuel for a crucible doesn’t actually matter. So use your lowq coal for crucible crafting (alloying, bar/nugget switching, glassworking, and a good number of curios)

[itworkss]

I sometimes use low quality coal as fuel for my camp fires.

Otherwise, just toss it.