Overview
Waxed 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.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Waxed Copper Grate is a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Copper Grate. 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. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it.
Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. The recipe calls for Waxed Block of Copper. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Waxed Block of Copper, with nothing wasted.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
How long it takes to break
Waxed Copper Grate 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.
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.
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.
| 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 Grate usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is transparent to light and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard 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.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Stone Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Waxed Copper Grate ×4
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Waxed Copper Grate
Stonecutter
Waxed Copper Grate ×4
Drops
Mined with Stone Pickaxe, Waxed Copper Grate drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Waxed Copper Grate in Minecraft?
Waxed Copper Grate is crafted from Waxed Block of Copper.
What tool do you need to break Waxed Copper Grate?
Stone Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Waxed Copper Grate blast resistant?
Waxed Copper Grate has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Waxed Copper Grate fit in one stack?
Waxed Copper Grate stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
How long does Waxed Copper Grate take to break?
0.5 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 15 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Waxed Copper Grate is one of 5 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
