Deepslate Copper Ore — Minecraft block

Overview

Deepslate Copper Ore is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. It is gathered by mining rather than crafted. At hardness 4.5 this is one of the tougher blocks in the game.

It needs at least a stone pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. What you actually collect is Raw Copper. A full stack holds 64.

Its only crafting use is Copper Ingot.

About the deepslate set

How long it takes to break

Deepslate Copper Ore sits at hardness 4.5: 23 seconds per block with your fists, 0.75 with the correct netherite tool.

An iron tool takes 1.2 seconds and a diamond one 0.85, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to diamond.

Below stone the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.8 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	23 s	23 s	23 s
Wooden *	11 s	1.9 s	0.85 s
Stone	1.7 s	0.5 s	0.25 s
Iron	1.2 s	0.45 s	0.25 s
Diamond	0.85 s	0.4 s	0.2 s
Netherite	0.75 s	0.4 s	0.2 s
Golden *	1.9 s	1.1 s	0.6 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Deepslate Copper Ore is 3, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. Broken normally it drops Raw Copper rather than itself; Silk Touch is what returns the block, and Fortune raises the ordinary drop instead.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe

Where it generates

Copper generates in very large veins and drops two to five raw copper per block, so a single vein can yield most of a stack. It oxidises through four visible stages when placed, which can be locked at any stage with honeycomb, and it feeds lightning rods, spyglasses, brushes, and the whole copper block family used in trial chambers. Dripstone caves around Y=48 are the single best place to mine it.

A second, much larger blob variant generates specifically in dripstone caves, which are by far the fastest place to gather copper in bulk.