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Copper Ingot
MiscellaneousCraftable

Copper Ingot

A metal ingot obtained by smelting raw copper or copper ore, used to craft copper blocks, spyglasses, lightning rods and brushes. Nine ingots form a copper block.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.17

Item ID

copper_ingot

Copper Ingot at a glance

Smelting and crafting give you Copper Ingot, an item filed under Miscellaneous. A single slot takes 64 Copper Ingot, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Copper Ingot is also a hub ingredient, feeding 4 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. It sits between Compass and Cyan Dye in Miscellaneous, number 28 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Block of CopperBlock of Copper
Copper IngotCopper Ingot9

Used to craft

From Block of Copper to Spyglass, 4 recipes use Copper Ingot, and 2 of those sit in Tools. Each link below opens that recipe with Copper Ingot in the grid.

How to obtain

  • Smelting
  • Crafting

Cooking

Heat is all Copper Ingot asks for: Copper Ore, Deepslate Copper Ore, and Raw Copper go in any of these 2 and come back out. A blast furnace does one in 5 seconds, a furnace needs 10. Experience comes with it: 0.7 a piece, 44.8 for the 64 in a slot.

Mobs that drop it

You can get Copper Ingot off 2 mobs, and Copper Golem gives 1 to 3 per kill. Looting III turns Copper Golem into 6 Copper Ingot instead of 3, 1 per level.

Notes

Smelted from Raw Copper or copper ore; also obtainable by crafting from a Block of Copper (yields 9).

Frequently asked questions about Copper Ingot

  1. Block of Copper going into Copper Ingot, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Copper Ingot in Minecraft?

    Copper Ingot is crafted from Block of Copper at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 9. It also comes from smelting, not just the recipe above.

  2. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Copper Ingot

    How do you cook Copper Ingot?

    Heat is all Copper Ingot asks for: Copper Ore, Deepslate Copper Ore, and Raw Copper go in any of these 2 and come back out. A blast furnace does one in 5 seconds, a furnace needs 10. Experience comes with it: 0.7 a piece, 44.8 for the 64 in a slot.

  3. Copper Ingot coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.17

    When was Copper Ingot added to Minecraft?

    Copper Ingot was added in version 1.17.

  4. Several Copper Ingot at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Copper Ingot?

    You can get Copper Ingot off 2 mobs, and Copper Golem gives 1 to 3 per kill. Looting III turns Copper Golem into 6 Copper Ingot instead of 3, 1 per level.

  5. 64 Copper Ingot drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Copper Ingot can you stack?

    64 Copper Ingot fills a slot, and that slot costs 8 Block of Copper, since each one returns 9, which is 8 crafts at the crafting table.

  6. Copper Ingot turning into Block of Copper and Brush, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Copper Ingot used for?

    Copper Ingot is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Block of Copper, Brush, Lightning Rod, and Spyglass.

Building with it

Copper smelts from ore that drops several raw copper per block, so it arrives in quantity from the first cave. Spyglasses, brushes, lightning rods and the whole copper block family come from it, and the blocks oxidise over time unless waxed.