Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs

Overview

Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Oxidized 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 Oxidized Cut Copper. You can also cut it from Waxed Oxidized Copper on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs has a hardness of 3. By hand that is 15 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.5 seconds.

You are looking at 0.75 seconds on iron and 0.6 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

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 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. 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.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe