| Rarity tier | Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Tool | None |
| Blast resistance | 6 |
| Hardness | 5 |
| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | Yes |
| Flammable | No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Map color | 0 NONE |
| Note block instrument | Default (Harp) |
A copper trap is a joke block exclusive to 26w14a.
Obtaining
Breaking
Although the copper trap has a drop, no vanilla tool is suitable for breaking it, so breaking it with any tool has no effect. Furthermore, attempting to use Attack / Mine to order a tool to mine it does not happen, as tools break only the blocks that they can mine. However, it is still possible to make a copper trap block drop a living copper trap with an explosion.
Using cheats, it is possible to create a tool capable of mining it by modifying minecraft:tool.rules data component. It can also be added to the tag #mineable/pickaxe so that it can be mined by any pickaxe (additionally, adding a tag like #needs_iron_tool prevents it from being mined by some pickaxes.)
| Block |  Copper Trap
| |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 5 | |
| Breaking time (secs) | ||
| Default | 25 (JE) 25 (BE) | |
- 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
Post-generation
If at least eight living copper bars of the same variant come close together, a living copper trap of that variant forms.
It can be placed as an item in a container by approaching a living container or using a hopper.
Usage
Oxidation
Unlike most copper blocks, copper traps cannot change their oxidation or wax state. However, unwaxed copper traps continue to slow or prevent the oxidation of nearby unwaxed copper blocks. This behavior is common to all unwaxed copper blocks (see Oxidation § Blocks), but due to the fact that copper traps do not oxidize, they may fully prevent the oxidation of nearby copper blocks at the same oxidation level.
Waxed copper traps have no effect on nearby copper blocks.
Trap
Living copper traps attempt to pathfind toward the nearest player. When coming in contact with a player, it spawns a cage of 25 copper bars of the same variant of the copper trap around them, trapping them. The copper bars replace all blocks that were previously in the copper bars' positions, including otherwise unbreakable blocks.
Sounds
 copper sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed[until: JE 26.4] | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Trap | copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
 Exposed Copper Trap | exposed_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
 Weathered Copper Trap | weathered_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
 Oxidized Copper Trap | oxidized_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
| Waxed Copper Trap | waxed_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
| Waxed Exposed Copper Trap | waxed_exposed_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
| Waxed Weathered Copper Trap | waxed_weathered_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
| Waxed Oxidized Copper Trap | waxed_oxidized_copper_trap | Block & Item | None | None | block |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
  | You Played Yourself | Watch out for 8 iron (or copper) bars, they're dangerous in groups. When you least expect it! | Have 8 iron or copper bars combine into a trap. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Copper Trap" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".
Trivia
- According to one of the developers, copper and iron traps are a reference to the mod SecurityCraft.[1]
References
- ↑ "Fun fact for those of you who played the April Fools' Day snapshot 26w14a and got imprisoned by an iron or copper trap: Those are a reference to the Cage Trap in the mod SecurityCraft that I've been a part of the dev team of since long before I joined Mojang. Did you notice it?" – @bl4ckscor3 on X (formerly Twitter), April 3, 2026
