Minecraft:Copper Pickaxe

A copper pickaxe is a variant of Minecraft:pickaxe that is crafted from Minecraft:copper ingots. It is the fourth-highest Minecraft:tier of pickaxe, having higher Minecraft:mining efficiency, durability, and Minecraft:enchantability than a Minecraft:stone pickaxe. It has a Minecraft:mining level of 1, the same as a stone pickaxe, allowing it to mine Minecraft:copper ore, Minecraft:iron ore, and Minecraft:lapis lazuli ore.

Obtaining

Usage

Mining

A copper pickaxe is used to break stone and metal-based materials faster. Breaking a block with a copper pickaxe consumes one use (one durability point). No durability is consumed for blocks that have a hardness value of 0, such as Minecraft:torches and Minecraft:flowers. Copper pickaxes mine faster than stone pickaxes but slower than iron.

Mining level

Copper pickaxes have a mining level of 1. Copper pickaxes can mine the same blocks as stone pickaxes, meaning that they can mine copper, iron and lapis lazuli ores and blocks made from these minerals, but cannot mine redstone, gold, diamond or emerald ores, netherite or obsidian.

Weapon

Java Edition

All pickaxes have an attack speed modifier of -2.8, meaning they take about 0.85 seconds to Minecraft:recover. Copper pickaxes do Template:Hp damage per attack, or 3.6 damage per second.

Bedrock Edition

Copper pickaxes attack instantly, and do Template:Hp damage per attack, or 8 damage per second.

Repairing

Anvil repair

A copper pickaxe can be repaired in an Minecraft:anvil by adding Minecraft:copper ingots, with each ingot restoring 47 durability (25%, rounded down). Two copper pickaxes can also be combined in an anvil. Both methods preserve the pickaxe's Minecraft:enchantments.

Enchantments

A copper pickaxe can receive the following Minecraft:enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Minecraft:Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	10
Minecraft:Fortune<ref group="note" name="exc">Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive</ref>	Increases the amount of Minecraft:drops when mining.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Silk Touch<ref group="note" name="exc" />	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	1
Minecraft:Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Mending	Repairs the pickaxe when obtaining Minecraft:experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	The pickaxe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Data values

History

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

• A screenshot of four player characters inside a base. One of them is wearing full copper armor and holding a copper pickaxe.
  Minecraft:Noor wearing full copper armor and holding a copper pickaxe.
• Minecraft:Sunny mining with copper gear
  Minecraft:Sunny mining with copper gear
• Minecraft:Zuri mining with a copper pickaxe
  Minecraft:Zuri mining with a copper pickaxe
• Minecraft:Makena with a copper pickaxe
  Minecraft:Makena with a copper pickaxe

In other media

• An side-by-side image featuring a copper golem and copper armor, a copper pickaxe, and a copper sword.
  Thumbnail with a Minecraft:copper golem and with copper pickaxe.
• Minecraft:Noor holding a copper pickaxe.
  Minecraft:Noor holding a copper pickaxe.