Waxed Weathered Copper Grate — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Waxed Weathered Copper Grate as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Waxed Weathered Copper Grate. 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. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it.

Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. The recipe calls for Waxed Weathered Copper. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Waxed Weathered Copper, with nothing wasted.

Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

Waxed Weathered Copper Grate 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.

Iron takes 0.75 seconds against diamond's 0.6, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.

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.

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

With 6 blast resistance Waxed Weathered Copper Grate usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is transparent to light and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe