Coal
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| “ | Chunks of raw Coal that can be refined into materials needed for production and power generation at Facilities. | „ |
| — In-game description |
Coal is a raw resource specially designed to be refined into Coke, or used as fuel for Trains.
Acquisition
Coal Field 
Coal can be acquired by mining the nodes on a Coal Field with a Hammer, Sledge Hammer or a Harvester. Each field starts with 30 nodes spawned on the ground and 250 more in reserve. Each node yields around 270 Coal, meaning that each field contains about 67,500. When a node is harvested, one from the reserve replaces it a few seconds later. You can check the status of a field by walking up to the large unminable central piece and pressing E, or by hovering over its icon on the map. Once empty, a field resets after an hour or two.
Unlike Salvage, Components, and Sulfur there is no World Resource Mine for Coal.
Stationary Harvester
| Structure | Input(s) | Output | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stationary Harvester (Coal) | 1L x Petrol  |
50 x Coal  |
00:00:18 |
| Stationary Harvester (Coal) (Excavator) | 2L x Petrol |
15 x Coal |
00:00:18 |
| Stationary Harvester (Sulfur) (Excavator) | 6L x Heavy Oil  |
2 x Sulfur  5 x Coal |
00:00:18 |
Usage
Fuel
It is used as fuel by Locomotives and Small Train Locomotives.
Production
| Structure | Input(s) | Output | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Refinery | 200 x Coal 3 MW of power  |
180 x Coke  |
00:04:30 |
| Coal Refinery (Advanced Coal Liquefier) | 300 x Coal 100L x Water  6 MW of power |
260 x Coke 60L x Heavy Oil |
00:06:45 |
| Coal Refinery (Advanced Coal Liquefier) | 300 x Coal 100L x Water 6 MW of power |
1 x Concrete Materials  15 x Sulfur 100L x Oil  |
00:04:30 |
| Coal Refinery (Coal Liquefier) | 300 x Coal 50L x Water 6 MW of power |
1 x Concrete Materials 10 x Sulfur 50L x Oil |
00:04:30 |
| Coal Refinery (Coke Furnace) | 200 x Coal 3 MW of power |
165 x Coke 15 x Sulfur |
00:04:30 |
| Diesel Power Plant (Coal Power Plant) | 60 x Coal |
5 MW of power |
00:01:30 |
| Offshore Platform | 100 x Coal |
1 x Enriched Oil  |
00:01:30 |
| Power Station | 30 x Coal 1L x Water |
10 MW of power |
00:01:30 |
| Refinery | 5 x Coal |
1 x Gravel  |
00:00:01.2 |
Storage
It stacks up to 100 per slot in inventories. It can be stored in the stockpiles of Bases (32k max), Resource Containers (5k), Resource Transfer Stations (15k), and Resource Ships (95k).
It can be transported by almost any vehicle with inventory slots, but is most commonly transported by normal Trucks, Resource Trucks, Small Container Car, Container Car, Resource Ship, or shipping vehicles carrying Resource Containers.
Gallery
A Coal Field close-up
A Harvester filled with coal
A Resource Transfer Station containing Coal and Coke
A Coal Field on the map, displaying how many reserve nodes are in that field
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