Coal

Coal
Type	Raw material
Gathered at	Dark-veined rocks in The Mine, The Pond, Whisperwood and the Wilderness
Skill	Mining
Used for	Smithing fuel, Strength Potions, Guild Life and firepits

Coal is a raw gathered material in Kintara. It is mined from dark-veined rocks on the Mainland, in The Mine, at The Pond, in Whisperwood and across the Wilderness realms — roughly one rock in four is dark-veined — and is used in every smelting recipe, to buy potions, and for Guild Life. (Emberstone's basalt spires are the exception: they only ever give Stone.)

Gathering

Action	Location	Skill	Result
Mine dark-veined rocks	The Mine, The Pond, Whisperwood, Wilderness	Mining (25 XP per mined-out rock)	Coal (1 per swing)

No Mining level is needed and any pickaxe works. A single rock takes 6 swings (6 Coal); bigger rock clusters take up to 10.

Uses

Use	Required amount	Result
Smelting fuel	5 per Copper Ingot · 6 per Iron Ingot · 8 per Silver Ingot	Consumed by every smelt tier at any furnace
Strength Potion	40 Coal	Bought from The Alchemist (the currently unavailable Poison Potion's recipe also lists 20 Coal)
Guild Life upkeep	500 Coal	Adds a quarter-day of Guild Life
Firepit	20 Coal	With 20 Stone and 50 Wood, builds a firepit
Chest Vending Machine	1,500 (Angel Chest) · 500 (Galactic Chest)	Part of each chest's price at the time of writing

History: Coal was once part of the Traveling Merchant's Gold bundle. The merchant no longer trades.

Related pages

Page	Why it matters
Mining	Skill used to gather Coal
Wilderness	A main place where Coal is gathered
The Mine	Safe mining cave full of Stone and Coal rocks
Guilds	Guild Life upkeep takes Coal
Smithing	Uses Coal in every smelting recipe
Frostmere	One of the two blacksmith forges (the other is in Dunes West)