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What is Raw Copper in Minecraft?

Raw copper is a lumpy, orange piece of metal that you get straight from the ground. It is the unsmelted version of copper, which means you cannot use it to craft tools or blocks just yet. Think of it like dough before you bake it into bread. Its main purpose is to be cooked in a furnace to create shiny copper ingots. Since copper ore drops multiple pieces of raw copper, it is a great way to quickly gather a lot of this useful metal. It was added to the game to make mining feel more rewarding, so instead of getting one ore block, you get several pieces of raw material. Raw copper is the first step towards making cool things like a spyglass, a lightning rod, or beautiful copper blocks that change color over time.

How to get Raw Copper in Minecraft

The only way to get raw copper is by mining copper ore. Copper ore is a stone block with orange and green specks in it, and it is very common underground. You can find it in large veins almost anywhere you dig, from high up in mountains to deep down in caves. To get the raw copper, you need to mine the ore block with at least a stone pickaxe. If you use a wooden pickaxe, the block will break but you will not get anything. When you mine a single block of copper ore, it will drop between two and five pieces of raw copper. This number can be increased if you use a pickaxe enchanted with Fortune. A Fortune III pickaxe can make a single ore block drop up to twenty pieces of raw copper, which is a huge amount. This makes it very easy to gather a lot of copper quickly for all your building and crafting projects. You can also find raw copper in the chests of mineshafts, though mining is the most reliable method.

How to use Raw Copper in Minecraft

The main use for raw copper is to smelt it into copper ingots. To do this, you just need to place the raw copper in the top slot of a furnace or a blast furnace with some fuel in the bottom slot. Each piece of raw copper will cook into one copper ingot. These ingots are what you use for all the cool copper crafting recipes. If you have a lot of raw copper and want to save space in your chests, you can also craft it into a block. Just place nine pieces of raw copper in a three by three square in a crafting table to create one block of raw copper. This is a great way to store it compactly, and you can always turn the block back into nine pieces of raw copper whenever you need them.

How to craft Raw Copper in Minecraft

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What can Raw Copper make in Minecraft

Copper Ingot

Raw Copper Block

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.