Waxed Oxidized Copper Bulb — Minecraft block

Overview

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Waxed Oxidized Copper Bulb is a building block. Waxed Oxidized Copper Bulb 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. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

The recipe calls for Waxed Oxidized Copper, Blaze Rod, and Redstone Dust. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Waxed Oxidized Copper Bulb sits at hardness 3: 15 seconds per block with your fists, 0.5 with the correct netherite tool.

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

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.

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

Blast resistance on Waxed Oxidized Copper Bulb is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal 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