Waxed Block of Copper

Overview

Minecraft classifies Waxed Block of Copper as a building block. Waxed Block of Copper has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 3 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.

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 Block of Copper and Honeycomb. Its main value is as a crafting ingredient: 8 recipes need it, Bolt Armor Trim, Copper Ingot, Waxed Copper Bulb and 5 more among them.

How long it takes to break

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

An iron tool takes 0.75 seconds and a diamond one 0.6, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to iron.

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 3.3 times faster than the plain tool.

* 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 Waxed Block of Copper usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe

Crafting recipe

Crafting Table

Shapeless recipe

Waxed Block of Copper

Drops

Mined with Stone Pickaxe, Waxed Block of Copper drops itself.

Waxed Block of Copper

Used to craft

Waxed Block of Copper is an ingredient in 8 recipes, producing Bolt Armor Trim, Copper Ingot, Waxed Copper Bulb, Waxed Copper Grate, Waxed Cut Copper, Waxed Chiseled Copper, Waxed Cut Copper Slab, and Waxed Cut Copper Stairs.