Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate — Minecraft block

Overview

Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate 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. Because it is transparent it does not block light.

A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Waxed Oxidized Copper. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Waxed Oxidized Copper gives one of these.

No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 3, Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate 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

Waxed Oxidized Copper Grate has a blast resistance of 6, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It lets light through and emits no light of its own. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe