Coalossal Coals
by AdmiralSdot
Coalossal Coals adds a chain of craftable coal tiers, each one stronger than the last, for NeoForge on 1.21.1.
What it does
Each coal tier is crafted from the tier below it plus a few extra items, so the chain can be followed from the first step up to the final one. Later tiers carry higher costs, and the top tiers are meant as late-game goals. The author describes the first tier as a simple starting point with a short recipe, and the difficulty rises from there.
The coals are built to work with furnaces and machines that accept coal, including powered generators from other mods. Recipes that burn coal or use coal as an ingredient also take the new tiers. The mod is listed under Optimization, with secondary tags for Technology, Utility, Cursed, Economy, Game mechanics and Storage. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files are published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only, with the 1.0.0 build from 2025-04-30 as the latest. The mod is not open source and is licensed as All rights reserved. Global Emeralds is an optional dependency that adds features when installed.
Key features
Tiered coal chain
Coal tiers are crafted in sequence, with each recipe requiring at least one previous tier and some extra items.
Balanced late-game costs
Costs rise steeply toward the final tiers, so the top coals are reserved for players far into a world.
Furnace and machine support
The new coals work in furnaces and machines that accept coal, and in recipes that burn coal.
Compact high-tier smelting
The author describes a high tier able to smelt 600 items in one package, along with a built-in compatibility set.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 1
How it compares
Better Than Coal is NeoForge only, published for 1.21.4 – 1.21.8 under All rights reserved, and is not open source. Compressed Coal is NeoForge only for 1.21 – 1.21.10, under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, and is not open source. Iron Coals is open source under the MIT License, with Fabric, Forge and NeoForge files for 1.20 – 1.21.11, so it covers more loaders and versions than this mod.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalossal Coals | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-04-30 |
| Better Than Coal | NeoForge | 1.21.4 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-07-31 |
| Compressed Coal | NeoForge | 1.21 – 1.21.10 | Client and server | 2025-09-07 |
| Iron Coals | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-10-07 |
Questions
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In the catalog
Coalossal Coals is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,250 Optimization mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Coalossal Coals adds craftable tiers of increasingly better coals, with some difficult to ascertain late-game final tiers! These coals are designed to work with all furnaces and machines that accept coal, including modded power generators from other mods that may burn coal, and should work in coal-based recipes as…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/coalossal-coals
- Owner
- AdmiralSdot
- Published
- 2025-04-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-04-30
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15