Copper Door

A copper door is a type of door made of copper that can be opened and closed by the player without redstone.

Copper Door

• Unoxidized
• Exposed
• Weathered
• Oxidized

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	3
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial
Waterloggable	No (Java Edition) Yes (Bedrock Edition)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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Obtaining

Breaking

A copper door can be mined with anything, but pickaxes are the fastest. Pistons can also break doors by pushing the piston head or any block into the door.

Copper doors require a solid block beneath them for support. If that block is removed, the door breaks and drops itself.

Block	Copper Door
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time (sec)
Default	4.5
Wooden	2.25
Stone	1.15
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Netherite	0.5
Golden	0.4
Options
Efficiency	0
Haste	0 JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Copper Door	Copper Ingot	3
Waxed Copper Door	Matching Unwaxed Copper Door + Honeycomb

Natural generation

Copper doors generate naturally between the rooms of trial chambers.

Usage

Copper doors can be opened and closed using a redstone signal, or by players, villagers, piglins, wandering traders‌, vindicators‌. Copper doors are also affected by the wind burst of thrown wind charges, causing them to open if closed, or vice versa.

In Hard difficulty, copper doors can be broken by vindicators and all variants of zombies except drowned.

Barrier

A vindicator breaking a closed copper door placed sideways, even though it allows passage

A copper door can be opened or closed by pressing the Use Item/Place Block control. When a door opens or closes, it immediately changes its orientation without affecting anything in the space it "swings through".

Some zombies can break copper doors in Hard difficulty. Zombies have a 5% chance to spawn with the ability to break doors. Vindicators spawned from a raid in Normal and Hard difficulty can also break copper doors, but they do so only to reach targeted players, villagers, or wandering traders. In Java Edition, some vindicators may sometimes open a copper door instead of breaking it. Both zombies and vindicators attempt to break a copper door only when the door is in its "closed" state; this is the case even when the door is placed in such a way as to allow passage in its "closed" state and block passage in its "open" state (for example, by facing sideways when placing the door).

Redstone component

Copper doors can be controlled with redstone power.

A copper door is a redstone mechanism component and can be activated by weakly powering any cardinally adjacent block.

When activated, the copper door immediately opens. When deactivated, it immediately closes. Players and mobs can still open and close a door that is controlled by a redstone signal.

All methods of activating a door can be applied to either the top or bottom parts of a door.

Oxidation

Non-waxed copper doors have four stages of oxidation (including the initial normal state). Lightning bolts and axes can remove the oxidation on copper doors. They can be waxed with honeycomb to prevent oxidation from progressing.

As the block begins to oxidize (exposed), it gets discolored and green spots begin to appear. As the oxidation continues (weathered), the block is a green color with brown spots. In the last stage (oxidized), the block is teal with several green spots.

Air pockets

Copper doors can be used as air pockets underwater in Java Edition. They can also be used as air pockets in lava in both Java and Bedrock editions, similarly to iron doors.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e copper sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.copper.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.copper.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.copper.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.copper.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.copper.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e copper sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.copper	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.copper	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.copper	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.copper	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.copper	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	step.copper	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.copper	0.22	1.0

Unique

Waxing

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Wax off	Blocks	When an axe unwaxes a copper door	item.axe.wax_off	subtitles.item.axe.wax_off​	1.0	Varies	16
	​Wax on	Blocks	When a honeycomb waxes a copper door	item.honeycomb.wax_on	subtitles.item.honeycomb.wax_on​	1.0	Varies	16
	​Axe scrapes	Blocks	When an axe deoxidizes a copper door	item.axe.scrape	subtitles.item.axe.scrape​	1.0	Varies	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	When an axe unwaxes a copper door	copper.wax.off	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a honeycomb waxes a copper door	copper.wax.on	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When an axe deoxidizes a copper door	scrape	1.0	0.8-1.2

Other

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Door creaks	Blocks	When a copper door opens	block.copper_door.open	subtitles.block.door.toggle​	1.0	Varies	16
	​Door creaks	Blocks	When a copper door closes	block.copper_door.close	subtitles.block.door.toggle​	1.0	0.9-1.0	16
	​Door shakes	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie attacks a copper door	entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door	subtitles.entity.zombie.attack_wooden_door​	2.0	0.8-1.2	16
	​Door breaks	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie breaks a copper door	entity.zombie.break_wooden_door	subtitles.entity.zombie.break_wooden_door​	2.0	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a copper door opens	open_door.copper	1.0	1.0-1.1
	Blocks	When a copper door closes	close_door.copper	1.0	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	While a zombie is breaking a copper door	mob.zombie.wood	1.0	1.0
	Hostile Creatures	When a zombie breaks a copper door	mob.zombie.woodbreak	1.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Copper Door	copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.copper_door
Exposed Copper Door	exposed_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.exposed_copper_door
Weathered Copper Door	weathered_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.weathered_copper_door
Oxidized Copper Door	oxidized_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.oxidized_copper_door
Waxed Copper Door	waxed_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.waxed_copper_door
Waxed Exposed Copper Door	waxed_exposed_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.waxed_exposed_copper_door
Waxed Weathered Copper Door	waxed_weathered_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.waxed_weathered_copper_door
Waxed Oxidized Copper Door	waxed_oxidized_copper_door	Block & Item	doors mob_interactable_doors mineable/pickaxe	doors	block.minecraft.waxed_oxidized_copper_door

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Copper Door	copper_door	1039	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -784)	tile.copper_door.name item.copper_door.name
Exposed Copper Door	exposed_copper_door	1040	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -785)	tile.exposed_copper_door.name item.exposed_copper_door.name
Weathered Copper Door	weathered_copper_door	1041	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -786)	tile.weathered_copper_door.name item.weathered_copper_door.name
Oxidized Copper Door	oxidized_copper_door	1042	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -787)	tile.oxidized_copper_door.name item.oxidized_copper_door.name
Waxed Copper Door	waxed_copper_door	1043	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -788)	tile.waxed_copper_door.name item.waxed_copper_door.name
Waxed Exposed Copper Door	waxed_exposed_copper_door	1044	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -789)	tile.waxed_exposed_copper_door.name item.waxed_exposed_copper_door.name
Waxed Weathered Copper Door	waxed_weathered_copper_door	1045	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -790)	tile.waxed_weathered_copper_door.name item.waxed_weathered_copper_door.name
Waxed Oxidized Copper Door	waxed_oxidized_copper_door	1046	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -791)	tile.waxed_oxidized_copper_door.name item.waxed_oxidized_copper_door.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the door's "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For example, a door facing east occupies the west part of its block when closed.
half	lower	lower upper	Identifies which part of the door the block is.
hinge	left	left right	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door's inside).
open	false	false true	True if the door is currently open.
powered	false	false true	True if the door is currently powered by redstone.

Bedrock Edition:
Lower Door Block:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
direction	0x1 0x2	0	0 1 2 3	0 1 2 3	The direction the door's "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For example, a door facing east occupies the west part of its block when closed. 0: Facing east 1: Facing south 2: Facing west 3: Facing north
door_hinge_bit	— [sic]	false	false true	0 0 [sic]	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door's inside). false if hinge is on the left (the default), true if on the right. Lower door block has the same aux value when it is opened and closed.
open_bit	0x4	false	false true	0 1	True if the door is currently open.
upper_block_bit	0x8	false	false true	0 1	Always false for the lower part of a door.

Upper Door Block:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
direction	— [sic]	0	0 1 2 3	0 0 0 0 [sic]	The direction the door's "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For example, a door facing east occupies the west part of its block when closed. 0: Facing east 1: Facing south 2: Facing west 3: Facing north Upper door block has the same aux value no matter what it faces.
door_hinge_bit	— [sic]	false	false true	0 Unsupported	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door's inside). false if hinge is on the left (the default), true if on the right. Upper door block doesn't support aux value when its hinge is on the right.
open_bit	— [sic]	false	false true	0 0 [sic]	True if the door is currently open. Lower door block has the same aux value when it is opened and closed.
upper_block_bit	0x8	false	false true	0 1	Always true for the upper part of a door.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Wax on, Wax off	Apply and remove Wax from all the Copper blocks!!!	Wax and de-wax each oxidation stage of the 4 original copper blocks in the game: blocks of copper, cut copper blocks, cut copper stairs, and cut copper slabs.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Wax Off	Scrape Wax off of a Copper block!	Use an axe to revert any of these 9 waxed variants of copper blocks: The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages.
	Wax On	Apply Honeycomb to a Copper block!	Wax any of these 9 waxable copper block variants using a honeycomb: The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages, but cannot already be waxed.

History

October 15, 2023							Copper doors were announced at Minecraft Live 2023.
October 24, 2023							More oxidized variants of the copper door were shown off.
[hide]Java Edition
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w43a				Added copper doors behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
							The crafting recipe was originally six matching blocks of copper. [show]Recipe 33333333
			23w44a				The block and item textures have been changed.
			23w45a				Copper doors now generate naturally within trial chambers.
			1.20.3 Pre-Release 3				The block textures have been slightly changed, again.
1.21			24w18a				Copper doors are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
							The crafting recipe for copper doors has been changed: [show]Recipe 3
							Crafting recipes for all other variants of copper doors have been removed.
			1.21 Pre-Release 2				Copper doors are no longer part of the #wooden_doors block and item tags.
							Because of this, copper doors can no longer be broken with an axe or be used as fuel in a furnace.
							Copper doors are instead part of the newly introduced #mob_interactable_doors block tag.
1.21.4			24w44a				Now drop when broken with any tool.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.20.50 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.50.22				Added copper doors behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
							The crafting recipe was originally six matching blocks of copper. [show]Recipe 33333333
			Preview 1.20.50.23				The block and item textures have been changed.
							Added crafting table recipes for all oxidization levels of waxed copper doors.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Copper doors now generate naturally within trial chambers.
			Preview 1.20.60.22				The block textures have been slightly changed, again.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.22				Copper doors are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
			Preview 1.21.0.24				The crafting recipe for copper doors has been changed: [show]Recipe 3
							Crafting recipes for all other variants of copper doors have been removed.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				All types of copper doors no longer require a stone pickaxe to drop themselves, and are mined faster when using an improper tool.

Data history

[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.24				Doors now use the block state cardinal_direction (uses string values) instead of direction (uses integer values).

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

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  All blocks that can oxidize, including copper doors.

In other media

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  Artwork featuring a copper door.