Waxed Weathered Copper — Minecraft block

Overview

Waxed Weathered Copper is a building block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Weathered Copper. 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 Weathered Copper and Honeycomb. 6 recipes call for it, including Waxed Weathered Copper Bulb, Waxed Weathered Copper Grate, Waxed Weathered Cut Copper and 3 more.

About the copper set

How long it takes to break

Waxed Weathered Copper 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.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under stone returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

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

With 6 blast resistance Waxed Weathered Copper usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 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.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe

Crafting recipe

Crafting Table

Shapeless recipe

Waxed Weathered Copper

Drops

Mined with Stone Pickaxe, Waxed Weathered Copper drops itself.

Waxed Weathered Copper

Used to craft

Waxed Weathered Copper is an ingredient in 6 recipes, producing Waxed Weathered Copper Bulb, Waxed Weathered Copper Grate, Waxed Weathered Cut Copper, Waxed Weathered Chiseled Copper, Waxed Weathered Cut Copper Slab, and Waxed Weathered Cut Copper Stairs.