Waxed Exposed Copper Grate — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Waxed Exposed Copper Grate as a building block. Waxed Exposed Copper Grate 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. Because it is transparent it does not block light.

A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Waxed Exposed Copper. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Waxed Exposed Copper gives one of these.

No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Hardness 3 puts Waxed Exposed Copper Grate at 15 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.5 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron takes 0.75 seconds against diamond's 0.6, so the upgrade worth making 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.

* 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 Grate resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. 64 fit in a slot — a 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: Yes
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe