Copper Pickaxe

Copper Pickaxe

Rarity tier	Common
Mining efficiency	5
Mining level	1
Attack damage	JE: 3HP BE: 4HP
Attack speed‌[JE only]	1.2 (0.833 seconds)
Attack range	3 (3 blocks)
Hitbox margin	0
Durability	JE: 190 BE: 191
Enchantability	13
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Copper Ingot + Stick

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 torches and 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 recover. Copper pickaxes do 3HP damage per attack, or 3.6 damage per second.

Bedrock Edition

Copper pickaxes attack instantly, and do 4HP damage per attack, or 8 damage per second.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Damaged Copper Pickaxe		The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 9 points of durability

Ingredients	Grinding recipe	Description
Damaged Copper Pickaxe		The durability of the two pickaxes is added together, plus an extra 9 points of durability

Anvil repair

Ingredients	Anvil recipe
Damaged Copper Pickaxe + Copper Ingot	Copper Pickaxe

A copper pickaxe can be repaired in an anvil by adding 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 enchantments.

Enchantments

A copper pickaxe can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max Level	Method	Weight
Efficiency	Increases the mining speed.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	10
Fortune	Increases the amount of drops when mining.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	2
Silk Touch	Causes blocks to drop themselves when mined.	I	Enchanting Table Anvil	1
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the pickaxe when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The pickaxe vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Copper Nugget	Copper Pickaxe + Any fuel

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Item breaks	Players	When a pickaxe's durability is exhausted	entity.item.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	0.8	0.8–1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Item breaks	Players	When a pickaxe's durability is exhausted	random.break	subtitles.entity.item.break​	1.0	0.9

Data values

ID

Java Edition

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Copper Pickaxe	copper_pickaxe	Item	item.minecraft.copper_pickaxe

Bedrock Edition

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Copper Pickaxe	copper_pickaxe	771	Item	item.copper_pickaxe.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		MOAR Tools	Construct one type of each tool.	Construct one pickaxe, one shovel, one axe, and one hoe with the same material.	15	Bronze

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.9			25w31a				Added copper pickaxe.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.100 Experiment Drop 3 2025			Preview 1.21.100.23				Added copper pickaxe.

Issues

Issues relating to "Copper Pickaxe" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

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  Noor wearing full copper armor and holding a copper pickaxe.
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  Sunny mining with copper gear
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  Zuri mining with a copper pickaxe
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  Makena with a copper pickaxe

In other media

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  Thumbnail with a copper golem and with copper pickaxe.
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  Noor holding a copper pickaxe.