In Minecraft, you can use copper for construction, or for crafting lightning rods and spyglasses. Copper blocks will oxidize over time and turn green, but you can wax them to stop the aging process.

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Copper is a common mineral in Minecraft that can be obtained by smelting copper ores (or raw copper) in the furnace. By mining underground, you can find up to 200 copper ores per Minecraft chunk. The ...

Getting struck by lightning, even in Minecraft, is incredibly unlikely, but that doesn't mean that players shouldn't be prepared. The first part of the Caves and Cliffs update is here, and with it ...

Whenever lightning is about to happen in 128 blocks (64 blocks in Bedrock Edition) around the lightning rod, the lightning strike will be redirected to the rod instead of a random block. This is ...

Yesterday, July 29, 2025, Minecraft released a new snapshot for Java Edition, featuring mostly the copper-related features already available in the Bedrock beta and preview, along with a couple of new ...

Copper came to Minecraft with a bang; the first wave introduced copper ore, raw copper, copper blocks in multiple oxidation stages, cut variants, and the lightning rod and spyglass. Suddenly, rooftops ...

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Minecraft 1.17, AKA part one of the Caves And Cliffs update, was released yesterday and with it came new flora and fauna to see in the wild. Now that we have been able to explore a little bit, let's ...