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Where to find Copper ore in Minecraft 1.19

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There are several resources you can utilize in Minecraft to craft various items and improve your base and your equipment. You’ll need to locate and mine copper if you want to craft a spyglass, a lightning rod, or blocks of copper. This guide will cover where you need to go to find Copper Ore in Minecraft 1.19.

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How to find Copper Ore in Minecraft

You’ll know you’ve discovered copper when you find blocks with distinct orange and green ore inside them. Copper ore spawns all over Minecraft but has the best chance of spawning at layers 47 and 48. It’s a fairly common resource, so you won’t have to search high and low to locate some.

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When you find it, you can use any pickaxe to mine it. If you want to increase your chances of mining more raw copper from a deposit, you need to enchant your pickaxe with Fortune I, II, or III, with III being the best.

There’s a good chance you can find Copper Ore in dripstone caves. You can find these locations underground, and they have a chance to generate at any height. A dripstone cove will normally be available underneath the mainland. You will want to avoid looking for these biomes underwater. When you find Copper Ore in a dripstone cave, you can expect to find them in larger volumes than in other locations.

When you’ve acquired enough copper, you’ll be able to smelt it down to create copper ingots. To create a copper block, you will need nine copper ingots. It’s an essential resource if you want to utilize lightning rods, an item capable of redirecting lightning and stopping a well-placed lightning strike from setting any of your structures on fire.


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Zack Palm is the Senior Writer of Gamepur and has spent over five years covering video games, and earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Oregon State University. He spends his free time biking, running tabletop campaigns, and listening to heavy metal. His primary game beats are Pokémon Go, Destiny 2, Final Fantasy XIV, and any newly released title, and he finds it difficult to pull away from any Star Wars game.