Eco-stove: wood burner or mult-fuel?

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We're getting an eco-stove fitted in September, to replace our open hearth, so I need to choose which one to buy. Some burn only wood, and others are multi-fuel. I am leaning towards a wood burning stove, but don't want to regret it. If you have a multi-fuel stove, do you actually burn other fuels and, if so, why? I wonder if its to do with cost, heat output, or something else?

I thought wood burning stoves were very bad for air quality, not just from the smoke that goes up the chimney but also inside the house.
I don't know the details about stoves but I know that you need a different chimney liner depending on if you are burning wood or coal/coke as wood burns a lot hotter.

I have a multi fuel. Wood and anthracite. No house coal.

i make a bed of anthracite, get it to top heat then place 3-4 logs on it. They will burn slowly for 3-4 hours. Takes time to get the airwash/vents right,

I’d definitely go for multi-fuel. You can still just use it solely for wood if you want, but for extra heat a shovel of coal added is the creme de la creme of heat + flame. Coal fires get far hotter, as does the anthracite and those ball things that last for hours.

If you buy a wood burner presumably you are restricted to wood, (I’ve always had open fires and multi-fuels so limited in any other difference), and so I have no idea why you’d unnecessarily restrict yourself to one burning media when you’d be missing out on adding coal during a snowstorm/when it’s minus outside etc.?