Waxed Copper Bulb

Overview

Waxed Copper Bulb 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 Bulb is the same shape in a different material.

Waxed Copper Bulb is a building block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Waxed Copper Bulb 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. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

The recipe calls for Waxed Block of Copper, Blaze Rod, and Redstone Dust. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Waxed Copper Bulb has a hardness of 3. By hand that is 15 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.5 seconds.

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.

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 Copper Bulb usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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