Block of Raw Copper — Minecraft block

Overview

Block of Raw Copper counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Block of Raw Copper has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At hardness 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. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.

It is crafted from Raw Copper. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 5, Block of Raw Copper takes 25 seconds to punch out and 0.85 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

An iron tool takes 1.3 seconds and a diamond one 0.95, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to diamond.

The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below stone it yields nothing at all — the time is spent and the drop is lost, which is the single most common way players waste a vein.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.4 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	25 s	25 s	25 s
Wooden *	13 s	2.1 s	0.9 s
Stone	1.9 s	0.55 s	0.25 s
Iron	1.3 s	0.5 s	0.25 s
Diamond	0.95 s	0.45 s	0.25 s
Netherite	0.85 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Golden *	2.1 s	1.2 s	0.7 s

Properties

Block of Raw Copper has a blast resistance of 6, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe