Overview
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Exposed Cut Copper. 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. It stacks to 64.
You make it with Waxed Exposed Copper. You can also cut it from Waxed Exposed Copper on a stonecutter. It is used to craft Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs, and Waxed Exposed Chiseled Copper.
About the copper set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 3, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper takes 15 seconds to punch out and 0.5 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
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 adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.3 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| 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 Exposed Cut Copper usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal 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
- No
- Required tool
- Stone Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper ×4
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper
Stonecutter
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper ×4
Drops
Mined with Stone Pickaxe, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper drops itself.
Used to craft
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper is an ingredient in 3 recipes, producing Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs, and Waxed Exposed Chiseled Copper.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Waxed Exposed Cut Copper in Minecraft?
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper is crafted from Waxed Exposed Copper.
What tool do you need to break Waxed Exposed Cut Copper?
Stone Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Waxed Exposed Cut Copper blast resistant?
Waxed Exposed Cut Copper has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Waxed Exposed Cut Copper fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Waxed Exposed Cut Copper take to break?
0.5 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 15 seconds bare-handed.
