Copper Chest

Copper Chest

Single

Large

Single

Large

Single

Large

Single

Large

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	3
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	15 COLOR_ORANGE  44 TERRACOTTA_LIGHT_GRAY  56 WARPED_STEM  55 WARPED_NYLIUM
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A copper chest is a type of chest made of copper. It functions almost identically to a normal wooden chest, except that it oxidizes over time, and copper golems remove items from it to store inside nearby wooden chests.

Like normal chests, two copper chests can merge into a large copper chest if placed adjacent each other.

Obtaining

Breaking

A copper chest drops itself only if mined with a stone pickaxe or better. Using any other item to mine a copper chest drops only its contents.

Block	Copper Chest
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	115 (JE) 15 (BE)
Wooden	17.5 (JE) 7.5 (BE)
Stone	11.15 (JE) 1.15 (BE)
Copper	10.9 (JE) 0.9 (BE)
Iron	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Diamond	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (BE)
Netherite	10.5 (JE) 0.5 (BE)
Golden	11.3 (JE) 1.25 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

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	Crafting recipe
Copper Chest	Copper Ingot + Chest
Waxed Copper Chest	Matching Unwaxed Copper Chest + Honeycomb

Natural generation

Oxidized copper chests can generate as part of abandoned camps.

Post-generation

Upon creating a copper golem by placing a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern next to a block of copper, a copper chest is generated at the location of the copper block. Both the chest and the golem are spawned with their oxidation state matching that of the block of copper, but do not generate waxed even when a waxed block of copper is used.

Usage

A copper chest placed adjacent to another copper chest joins to create a large copper chest. Two adjacent copper chests merge into a large copper chest even if the two chests have different oxidization levels or waxed states; in such cases, the resulting large chest takes the oxidization level of the least oxidized half, and is unwaxed if one of the two halves is unwaxed.^[1]

A player can prevent the formation of a large chest, and place two small copper chests side by side, by sneaking while placing the second chest in Java Edition, pushing a copper chest into place with a piston in Bedrock Edition, or placing the second chest facing a different direction from the first chest.

In Java Edition, copper chests cannot be moved by pistons, and sticky pistons.

Copper golem

If a copper golem is not holding an item, it visits up to 10 copper chests (regardless of their oxidization or waxed status) in sequence to try to take out up to 16 of the first item contained within.

The search area for copper chests from the copper golem's position is 32 blocks horizontally and 8 blocks vertically.​

Container

A copper chest can be used as a container and has 27 slots of inventory space, and a large copper chest has twice that amount, at 54 slots.

In the Java Edition interface, the top three rows for a large copper chest correspond to the left half of the copper chest when facing it, and the bottom three rows correspond to the right half. In Bedrock Edition, the top three rows correspond to whichever half was placed first and the bottom three to the other half.

Copper chests open when used. To move items between the copper chest inventory and the player inventory or hotbar while the copper chest GUI is open, drag or shift-click the items. In Java Edition, holding ⇧ Shift and double-clicking while holding an item moves all items of the type clicked on in or out of the copper chest, to the extent that space is available for them. To exit the copper chest GUI, use the ⎋ Escape control.

A copper chest cannot be opened if there is a conductive block above it (in Bedrock Edition, bottom slabs prevent copper chests from being opened). Solid faces do not prevent copper chests from opening, so the lid of the copper chest can phase through blocks such as bottom-half slabs‌^{[Java Edition only]}, stairs, and non-conductive full cubes such as glass and ice. Cats sitting on copper chests prevent them from opening. Because copper chests themselves are non-conductive, two copper chests can be stacked on top of one another while still allowing the lower copper chest to be opened. Players can open copper chests when they are being hurt (effect of Instant Damage, Poison, Wither, on fire, damaged by other players or mobs, etc.).

By default, the GUI of a copper chest is labeled "Copper Chest"‌^{[BE only]}/"Chest"‌^{[JE only]} and the GUI of a large copper chest is labeled "Large Copper Chest"‌^{[BE only]}/"Large Chest".‌^{[JE only]} A copper chest's GUI label can be changed by naming the chest in an anvil before placing it, or, in Java Edition, by using the /data command (for example, to label a chest at (0,64,0) as "Bonus Chest!", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {CustomName:'"Bonus Chest!"'}). If half of a large copper chest is renamed, that name is used to label the GUI of the entire large copper chest, but if the named half is destroyed the other half reverts to the default label. If both halves of a large copper chest have different names, the GUI uses the name of the northernmost or westernmost half.

In Java Edition, a copper chest can be "locked" by setting its [NBT Compound / JSON Object] lock tag using the /data command. If a chest's [NBT Compound / JSON Object] lock tag is not blank, the copper chest cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item with the same name as the lock tag's text. For example, to lock a copper chest at (0,64,0) so that the copper chest cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item named "Copper Chest Key", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {lock:{components:{"custom_name":"Copper Chest Key"}}}.

Oxidation

Non-waxed copper chests have four stages of oxidation (including the initial normal state). Lightning bolts, and using an axe while sneaking can remove the oxidation on copper chests. Using a honeycomb on a copper chest prevents it from oxidizing.

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.

Piglins

Piglins become hostile toward players who open or break a copper chest.

Sounds

Generic

copper sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.copper	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.copper	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.copper	​ ?	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.copper	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.copper	​ ?	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Jumping from the block	step.copper	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.copper	​ ?	0.22	1.0

Unique

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Copper Chest	copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.copper_chest
Exposed Copper Chest	exposed_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.exposed_copper_chest
Weathered Copper Chest	weathered_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.weathered_copper_chest
Oxidized Copper Chest	oxidized_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.oxidized_copper_chest
Waxed Copper Chest	waxed_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.waxed_copper_chest
Waxed Exposed Copper Chest	waxed_exposed_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.waxed_exposed_copper_chest
Waxed Weathered Copper Chest	waxed_weathered_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.waxed_weathered_copper_chest
Waxed Oxidized Copper Chest	waxed_oxidized_copper_chest	Block & Item	copper_chests guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_stone_tool	copper_chests	block.minecraft.waxed_oxidized_copper_chest

Name	Identifier
Block entity	chest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Block tags	Translation key
Copper Chest	copper_chest	1286	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1031)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.copper_chest.name
Exposed Copper Chest	exposed_copper_chest	1287	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1032)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.exposed_copper_chest.name
Weathered Copper Chest	weathered_copper_chest	1288	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1033)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.weathered_copper_chest.name
Oxidized Copper Chest	oxidized_copper_chest	1289	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1034)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.oxidized_copper_chest.name
Waxed Copper Chest	waxed_copper_chest	1290	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1035)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.waxed_copper_chest.name
Waxed Exposed Copper Chest	waxed_exposed_copper_chest	1291	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1036)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.waxed_exposed_copper_chest.name
Waxed Weathered Copper Chest	waxed_weathered_copper_chest	1292	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1037)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.waxed_weathered_copper_chest.name
Waxed Oxidized Copper Chest	waxed_oxidized_copper_chest	1293	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1038)	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible minecraft:stone_tier_destructible not_feature_replaceable stone_pick_diggable	tile.waxed_oxidized_copper_chest.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Chest

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

Every copper chest has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the copper chest.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Wax On	Apply Honeycomb to a Copper block!	Use a honeycomb on any of these 15 waxable copper block variants: Block of Copper Chiseled Copper Copper Bars Copper Bulb Copper Chain Copper Chest Copper Door Copper Golem Statue Copper Grate Copper Lantern Copper Trapdoor Cut Copper Cut Copper Slab Cut Copper Stairs Lightning Rod The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages, but cannot already be waxed.
	Wax Off	Scrape Wax off of a Copper block!	Use an axe to revert any of these 15 waxed variants of copper blocks: Block of Copper Chiseled Copper Copper Bars Copper Bulb Copper Chain Copper Chest Copper Door Copper Golem Statue Copper Grate Copper Lantern Copper Trapdoor Cut Copper Cut Copper Slab Cut Copper Stairs Lightning Rod The block can be in any of its four oxidation stages.

History

Announcement

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.9			25w31a				Added copper chests.
			25w34a				Copper chests are now audible from up to 12 blocks away.
							The copper sorting sounds have been tweaked to be quieter.
			25w35a				Copper chests created from spawning a copper golem now correctly connect to nearby copper chests.
1.21.11			25w42a				The textures of all copper chests variants have been changed.[2][3]
26.1			snap3				Placed copper chests no longer use the Christmas chest texture from December 24 to 26.[4]
26.3			snap1				Oxidized copper chests can now generate as part of abandoned camps.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.100 Experiment Drop 3 2025			Preview 1.21.100.23				Added copper chests.
1.21.111			Preview 1.21.110.20				Copper chests no longer require the "Drop 3 2025" experiment to be active.
							Updated inner textures of all copper chest variants.
			Preview 1.21.110.22				The default container name for a copper chest is now "Copper Chest".
			Preview 1.21.110.23				Copper chests can now be crafted into waxed variants.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Oxidized copper chests can now generate as part of abandoned camps.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Issues

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

Gallery

Mojang images

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  Sunny with a copper chest
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In other media

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  Artwork for the copper chest-themed Copper Collector item for the character creator

References