How do you get Copper Ingot in Minecraft?

Smelt raw copper in a furnace or blast furnace (0.7 XP each), or smelt the ore directly with Silk Touch Kill drowned: 11% drop chance, up to 17% with Looting III - drowned farms are copper factories Craft 9 from a block of copper, or 9 copper nuggets into 1 ingot; copper golems drop 1-3

What is Copper Ingot used for?

Craft copper blocks that oxidize from orange to green - wax them with honeycomb to freeze the color Craft lightning rods to protect wooden builds and spyglasses to zoom in on the world Craft copper tools, weapons and armor - a full tier between stone and iron Use it as an armor trim material for that warm metallic accent

Copper Ingot

Material Stack: 64 Since 1.17 (Caves & Cliffs)

Quick answer: Smelt raw copper in a furnace or blast furnace (0.7 XP each), or smelt the ore directly with Silk Touch.

How to get it

Smelt raw copper in a furnace or blast furnace (0.7 XP each), or smelt the ore directly with Silk Touch
Kill drowned: 11% drop chance, up to 17% with Looting III - drowned farms are copper factories
Craft 9 from a block of copper, or 9 copper nuggets into 1 ingot; copper golems drop 1-3

Uses

Craft copper blocks that oxidize from orange to green - wax them with honeycomb to freeze the color
Craft lightning rods to protect wooden builds and spyglasses to zoom in on the world
Craft copper tools, weapons and armor - a full tier between stone and iron
Use it as an armor trim material for that warm metallic accent

Renewability

Renewable: drowned farms and copper ore veins keep it flowing.

Java vs Bedrock

Identical in Java and Bedrock.

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