Waxed Weathered Cut Copper Stairs

Overview

Waxed Weathered Cut Copper Stairs counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Waxed Weathered Cut Copper Stairs 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 Weathered Cut 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

Hardness 3 puts Waxed Weathered Cut Copper Stairs at 15 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.5 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

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.

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 Weathered 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. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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