Curious about charcoal

[Kangaxx]

Hey all I jsut finished doing everything i could on my current world, such all having a base camp, killed all the spiders (made a super spider island with all the nests) and all that sort of stuff. I had more than enough materials to survive indefinitely such as full chests of food, wood, stone, sticks and grass and all that goodness. So I was on day 56 and was getting slightly bored so I decided it was time to embrace the spirit of Willow and burn the whole world down to the ground muhahahaha. Afterwards I was clearing a few trees and I discovered that burnt trees produce charcoal which can be used as fuel for fires. My long winded question is this has anyone else found any other use for it?

[Vulturas]

You use it to light up fires in fire pits, and it's a very good resource to do that! Also, you get coals from the spiky trees from swamp sometimes.