Exposed Cut Copper Slab

Overview

Exposed Cut Copper Slab is one of the 5 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Cut Copper Slab is the same shape in a different material.

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Exposed Cut Copper Slab is a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Exposed Cut Copper Slab. Its hardness of 3 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.

Anything below a stone pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.

You make it with Exposed Cut Copper. You can also cut it from Exposed Copper on a stonecutter. It is used to craft Exposed Chiseled Copper and Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab.

How long it takes to break

Exposed Cut Copper Slab sits at hardness 3: 15 seconds per block with your fists, 0.5 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron manages 0.75 seconds and diamond 0.6, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

It will break below stone, and you will get nothing for it. That combination of time spent and drop lost is the classic mining mistake.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.3 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	15 s	15 s	15 s
Wooden *	7.5 s	1.3 s	0.55 s
Stone	1.2 s	0.35 s	0.15 s
Iron	0.75 s	0.3 s	0.15 s
Diamond	0.6 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Netherite	0.5 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Golden *	1.3 s	0.7 s	0.4 s

Properties

Exposed Cut Copper Slab resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe