Weathered Copper Bulb

Overview

Weathered Copper Bulb is one of the 5 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Copper Bulb is the same shape in a different material.

Minecraft classifies Weathered Copper Bulb as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Weathered Copper Bulb. 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, Blaze Rod, and Redstone Dust. The one thing it makes is Waxed Weathered Copper Bulb.

How long it takes to break

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

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.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.3 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* 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 Weathered Copper Bulb usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 64 fit in a slot — a 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.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe