Waxed Exposed Copper Trapdoor

Overview

Waxed Exposed Copper Trapdoor counts as a functional block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Exposed Copper Trapdoor. 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 Exposed Copper Trapdoor and Honeycomb. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

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

Iron manages 0.75 seconds and diamond 0.6, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under stone returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

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 Trapdoor resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe