Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab

Overview

Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab. 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 Cut Copper. You can also cut it from Waxed Exposed Copper on a stonecutter. Its only crafting use is Waxed Exposed Chiseled Copper.

How long it takes to break

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

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.

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.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.3 times the unenchanted rate.

* 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

Blast resistance on Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Slab is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe