Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs

Overview

Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs 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 Stairs is the same shape in a different material.

Minecraft classifies Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs. 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 Oxidized Cut Copper. You can also cut it from Oxidized Copper on a stonecutter. Its only crafting use is Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 3, Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs 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.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under stone returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.3 times the unenchanted rate.

* 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 Cut Copper Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard 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