Copper Ore

Copper Ore

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Statistics

Type	Ore • Crafting material
Placeable	1 wide × 1 high
Use time	15 Very Fast
Rarity
Sell	50*50

Sounds

• Internal Item ID: 12
• Internal Tile ID: 7

Copper Ore is an early game ore, which spawns on the surface as well as in the Underground and Cavern layers. It is the weakest and most easily obtained tier of ore in the game. Its primary use is to make Copper Bars, which can be used to create the Copper tier of equipment. The equivalent of Copper Ore is Tin Ore, which will sometimes replace Copper in a world.     Copper Ore has a small chance to appear as a bonus drop from slimes.

New characters will always start with Copper tools, regardless of the ore types present in the world.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Copper Bar	Copper Ore (3)	Furnace
Copper Brick	Stone Block Copper Ore
Copper Plating	Stone Block Copper Ore	Heavy Work Bench

total: 3 row(s)

Notes

• Although a world might have Tin Ore instead of Copper Ore, new players will always start with a Copper Shortsword, Copper Pickaxe and a Copper Axe.

Tips

• Similar to Tin, new players may want to avoid wasting effort trying to mine Copper Ore as Wood/Cactus armor and tools easily outweigh the usefulness of this ore. However, it is used in some decorative recipes.

See also

• Tin Ore

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1: Placed copper has a new texture.

• Desktop 1.2.3: Increased stack limit from 99 to 999.

• Desktop 1.2: Copper will now sometimes not generate with a world, being replaced with Tin Ore.

• Desktop 1.0.5: Now has a sparkle effect.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.