Yes, but wood burns too quickly. so as soon as you have one piece of charcoal, put that in as fuel.blasts much longer so you can turn more of the wood into more charcoal.
The more you know^^
I just began playing this yesterday, so I'm still a complete noob, but I did manage to build me a nice seaside castle with a 3 story tower in the middle, a watchtower to the south, a watchtower built off shore, and an elaborate dungeon underneath the castle.
I have a question though: From time to time creeper spawn inside my castle walls. How can I stop this?
I allready started sealing off old mine shafts that I won't use anymore, and tried to light as much of the castle courtyard as I could but sometimes there's still skeletons and creepers coming in.
I just started a new mining operation south of my castle ( a bit more remote) to gather more resources to expand westwards as there seem to be some amazing looking lands there.