Oxidized Copper Grate

Overview

Oxidized Copper Grate 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. Copper Grate is the same shape in a different material.

Oxidized Copper Grate counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Oxidized Copper Grate is made at a crafting table. Hardness 3 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.

Mine it with a stone pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Because it is transparent it does not block light.

A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Oxidized Copper. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Oxidized Copper gives one of these.

The one thing it makes is Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 3, Oxidized Copper Grate takes 15 seconds to punch out and 0.5 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

You are looking at 0.75 seconds on iron and 0.6 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

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

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 3.3 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* 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

With 6 blast resistance Oxidized Copper Grate usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is transparent to light and produces no light. 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.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe