Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs

Overview

Minecraft classifies Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs. 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. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 3, Waxed Exposed Cut Copper Stairs 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.

It will break below stone, and you will get nothing for it. That combination of time spent and drop lost is the classic mining mistake.

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 Cut Copper Stairs resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. Stack size is 64 — the standard 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.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe