How to Make Waxed Oxidized Copper Lantern in Minecraft

Waxed Oxidized Copper Lantern is the final oxidation stage of the copper lantern family, sealed with honeycomb so the teal color with green spots never changes again. The recipe needs one Oxidized Copper Lantern and one Honeycomb in a crafting grid, and using a Honeycomb directly on a placed lantern creates the same waxed block. Unwaxed copper lanterns age over time through four oxidation stages, while waxing stops the aging; lightning bolts and axes strip oxidation from unwaxed lanterns. The light of a copper lantern is unaffected by oxidation — Waxed Oxidized Copper Lantern burns with a green flame at light level 15 and a blast resistance of 3.5.

Waxed Oxidized Copper Lantern works as a color-stable light source for weathered harbors, steampunk streets, and abandoned-mine builds where the aged teal must stay exactly as placed. Like every copper lantern, Waxed Oxidized Copper Lantern sits on top of most solid blocks or hangs from bottom faces, tolerates waterlogging, and melts snow layers within 2 blocks and ice within 3 blocks. A pickaxe collects Waxed Oxidized Copper Lantern fastest, though any tool breaks a copper lantern, and a piston push or a destroyed support block simply drops the lantern as an item. Oxidized Copper Lanterns for the recipe come from letting a crafted Copper Lantern (8 Copper Nuggets + 1 Copper Torch) age, or from abandoned camps.