Waxed Exposed Copper — Minecraft block

Overview

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Waxed Exposed Copper is a building block. Waxed Exposed Copper 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 Exposed Copper and Honeycomb. It is an ingredient in 6 recipes, among them Waxed Exposed Copper Bulb, Waxed Exposed Copper Grate, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper and 3 more.

About the copper set

How long it takes to break

Waxed Exposed Copper sits at hardness 3: 15 seconds per block with your fists, 0.5 with the correct netherite tool.

You are looking at 0.75 seconds on iron and 0.6 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

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

Waxed Exposed 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. 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 Exposed Copper

Drops

Mined with Stone Pickaxe, Waxed Exposed Copper drops itself.

Waxed Exposed Copper

Used to craft

Waxed Exposed Copper is an ingredient in 6 recipes, producing Waxed Exposed Copper Bulb, Waxed Exposed Copper Grate, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper, Waxed Exposed Chiseled Copper, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab, and Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs.