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Verified - US Auction House - Crafting material
Coal
Metal & Stone
Verified US market
Commodities share one Auction House per region, so this price applies account-wide on US realms. Verify in-game before you trade.
Coal details
| Type | Metal & Stone |
|---|---|
| Item level | 10 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 1 silver25 copper |
| Expansion | Classic |
| First seen in our data | build 1.15.9.68940 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69875 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
What Coal is used in
Blacksmithing
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pandaren Signal Brazier | Pandaria Blacksmithing, House Decor, grey at 75 | 5 |
|  Pandaren Signal Brazier |
Enchanting
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Intense Mogu Brazier | Pandaria Enchanting, House Decor, grey at 75 | 5 |
|  Intense Mogu Brazier |
Engineering
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Halfhill Cookpot | Pandaria Engineering, House Decor, grey at 75 | 10 |
|  Halfhill Cookpot |
Mining
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smelt Steel | Classic Mining, Smelting, grey at 135 | 1 |
|  Steel Bar | 6 gold | 6 gold |
"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.
Crafting value of Coal
Coal goes into 4 recipes: 1 in Blacksmithing, 1 in Enchanting, 1 in Engineering and 1 in Mining. They come from Classic Mining, Pandaria Blacksmithing, Pandaria Enchanting and Pandaria Engineering.
Its product, Steel Bar (recipe: Smelt Steel), from Classic Mining, lists at 6 gold24 silver on the US Auction House.
One craft of Smelt Steel takes 1 Coal plus 1 Iron Bar; at current prices those reagents cost 6 gold4 silver per craft.
Coal is about 1% of that reagent bill at its current price; Iron Bar makes up the rest.
1 of the 4 distinct products have a current US commodity price.
Further down the chain, Steel Bar is itself a reagent in 17 recipes, such as Moonsteel Broadsword, Frost Tiger Blade and Shadow Crescent Axe.
Leveling and recipes for Coal
Leveling with Coal: Halfhill Cookpot (House Decor) turns yellow at Engineering skill 65 and grey at 75. Intense Mogu Brazier (House Decor) turns yellow at Enchanting skill 65 and grey at 75. Pandaren Signal Brazier (House Decor) turns yellow at Blacksmithing skill 65 and grey at 75. Smelt Steel (Smelting) turns yellow at Mining skill 125 and grey at 135.
Reagents used with Coal
Coal is most often combined with Bamboo Lumber, which shares 3 of its 4 recipes; next come Blood Spirit, Ghost Iron Bolts and Haunting Spirit.
Bamboo Lumber 3 shared recipes
Blood Spirit 1 shared recipe
Ghost Iron Bolts 1 shared recipe
Haunting Spirit 1 shared recipe
Iron Bar 1 shared recipe
Living Steel 1 shared recipe
Sha Crystal 1 shared recipe
Spirit of Harmony 1 shared recipe
Trillium Bar 1 shared recipe
What Coal is crafted into
Halfhill Cookpot (Decor). Made with Halfhill Cookpot, 10 Coal per craft.
Intense Mogu Brazier (Decor). Made with Intense Mogu Brazier, 5 Coal per craft.
Pandaren Signal Brazier (Decor). Made with Pandaren Signal Brazier, 5 Coal per craft.
Steel Bar (Metal & Stone). Made with Smelt Steel, 1 Coal per craft.
Coal: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 20% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.
| Now | 4 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 1 silver Aug 24 |
| 30-day high | 75 silver Sep 14 |
| 30-day median | 5 silver |
| 7-day median | 5 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 676 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Coal by region
Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.
| Region | Lowest listed price | Listings | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas and Oceania (US) | 2 silver | 214 | 24,580 |
| Europe (EU) | 9 silver | 190 | 14,027 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Coal
Classic Mining has 13 recipes. Besides Coal, the reagents they call for most are Arcanite Bar (1 recipe), Copper Bar (1 recipe), Copper Ore (1 recipe), Dark Iron Ore (1 recipe), Elemental Flux (1 recipe), Elementium Ingot (1 recipe), Fiery Core (1 recipe), Gold Ore (1 recipe), Iron Bar (1 recipe), Iron Ore (1 recipe).
Pandaria Blacksmithing has 193 recipes. Besides Coal, the reagents they call for most are Ghost Iron Bar (140 recipes), Spirit of Harmony (47 recipes), Living Steel (39 recipes), Lightning Steel Ingot (18 recipes), Trillium Bar (13 recipes), Blood Spirit (7 recipes), Kyparite (7 recipes), Balanced Trillium Ingot (6 recipes), Haunting Spirit (6 recipes), Luminous Flux (5 recipes).
Ore & Stone priced near Coal
Rough Stone1 silver
Dense Stone3 silver
Coarse Stone4 silver
Heavy Stone4 silver
Echoing Flux7 silver
Rough Grinding Stone8 silver
Porous Stone8 silver
Shaded Stone13 silver
Solid Stone19 silver
Blackrock Fragment28 silver
Dense Grinding Stone30 silver
True Iron Nugget33 silver
About Coal
Coal is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.
Demand comes from Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Mining. When a recipe that uses Coal spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.