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How to Craft Copper Ingot in Minecraft

Copper Ingot in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Crafting spyglasses, lightning rods and copper blocks. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.17.

This one is smelted rather than crafted: 1 Copper Ore in a Furnace, fuel below it, no grid involved. One pass through gives you 1 Copper Ingot.

Copper Ingot Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Copper Ingot is minecraft:copper_ingot. In commands the namespace may be left off, so copper_ingot works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p copper_ingot
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p copper_ingot 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve copper_ingot 1

Cheats have to be on for Copper Ingot to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Copper Ingots are smelted from copper ore. Copper is used for spyglasses, lightning rods, brushes and decorative blocks. Copper Ingot is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.17, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with copper ore (mine copper ore).

Per Stack

Work a stack down, 64 copper ore, and you land on 64 copper ingots. Craft 64 clears the box of copper ore.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Copper Ore1xMine copper ore

To make Copper Ingot you will gather Copper Ore (mine copper ore), and craft them at a Furnace.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Copper Ore in the top input slot.
  3. Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
  4. Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Copper Ingot from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Copper Ingot: 1 x Copper Ore in a furnace, making 1 Copper Ingot.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 1x Copper Ore. Plan the Copper Ore first: mine copper ore.
  • Work out the fuel before you start: eight Copper Ingot per coal, twenty per dried kelp block, and a lava bucket runs for a hundred.
  • There is more than one way to get Copper Ingot: the alternative methods further down this page can be quicker depending on what you already have.

Alternative Methods

Blast Furnace
Raw CopperRaw Copper
Copper IngotCopper Ingot
Method 2

Uses for Copper Ingot

  • Crafting spyglasses, lightning rods and copper blocks

What Copper Ingot Goes Into

6 other recipes list Copper Ingot as an ingredient.

Block of CopperCrafting TableCopper DoorCopper DoorCopper DoorCrafting TableCopper TrapdoorCopper TrapdoorCopper TrapdoorCrafting TableLightning RodLightning RodLightning RodCrafting TableSpyglassSpyglassSpyglassCrafting TableBrushBrushBrushCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Copper Ingot on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Copper Ingot in Minecraft?
a Copper Ingot asks for 1 Copper Ore, and the work happens at a Furnace. Put the input in the top slot and fuel underneath, and one craft produces one Copper Ingot.
What can you make with Copper Ingot?
Copper Ingot is an ingredient in 6 other recipes on this site, including Block of Copper, Copper Door, Copper Trapdoor and Lightning Rod. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Copper Ingot?
The materials for a Copper Ingot each come from somewhere different. Copper Ore: mine copper ore.
How many Copper Ingots do you get from one craft?
The Copper Ingot recipe makes one Copper Ingot per craft.
What is the item ID for Copper Ingot in Minecraft?
Copper Ingot is registered as minecraft:copper_ingot. Commands accept the short form copper_ingot as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Copper Ingot?
Use /give @p copper_ingot to put a Copper Ingot in your own inventory, or /give @p copper_ingot 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Copper Ingot recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
A Copper Ingot works the same on both: 1 Copper Ore at a Furnace, the same pattern, one at a time, whether you are on Java or Bedrock.
Which recipe uses the most Copper Ingot?
Of everything on this site, a Block of Copper swallows the most Copper Ingot: 9 Copper Ingots in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
What version of Minecraft added the Copper Ingot?
Minecraft 1.17 is where the copper ingot starts. The recipe sits in that release and is missing from the one before, across every Java version Mojang still hands out. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Copper Ore in, 1 Copper Ingot out, Furnace. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.17 describes this recipe and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Copper Ingot per craft against the stack size.

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