
Copper Golem
- Namespaced ID
- minecraft:copper_golem
- Health
- 12 (6 hearts)
- Added in
- Minecraft 1.21.9 (The Copper Age)
- Edition
- Java
The copper golem is a buildable passive utility mob that automatically sorts items out of copper chests and into your regular chests. It oxidizes over time like any copper block and eventually freezes into a motionless statue.
/summon command
Replace ~ ~ ~ with absolute coordinates to spawn at a fixed location.
Requires Minecraft 1.21.9 or newer — the copper golem does not exist in 1.21.8 or earlier.
Command builder
Set a custom name, health, and behavior flags to generate a ready-to-paste /summon command for Copper Golem.
Spawned at ~ ~ ~ — replace with absolute coords for a fixed location.
How to make a Copper Golem
Place a block of copper (any oxidation stage), then place a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on top — the pumpkin must be placed last. On construction the copper block instantly becomes a Copper Chest and the copper golem spawns where the pumpkin was, both matching the oxidation level of the copper block you used.
What the Copper Golem does
- •Passive — it never attacks and won't hurt you; its whole job is moving items.
- •When empty-handed it opens the nearest Copper Chest and takes up to 16 of the first item type it finds.
- •When carrying items it walks to the nearest wooden or trapped chest and deposits them, but only if that chest is empty or already holds the same item.
- •Searches for chests up to 32 blocks horizontally and 8 vertically, and remembers recently visited chests so it doesn't loop.
- •Oxidizes through four stages (unoxidized → exposed → weathered → oxidized) over many in-game hours, exactly like copper blocks.
- •Once fully oxidized it has a small chance each tick to lock into a copper statue (about 8–9 seconds on average); it drops anything it was holding when it freezes.
- •Cannot be dyed.
Tips
- •Right-click a statue or an oxidized golem with an axe to remove one oxidation stage and get it moving again.
- •Wax it with a honeycomb to lock its current oxidation stage forever, or let a lightning bolt strip all oxidation at once.
- •Pair it with a copper chest 'inbox' over your storage room to build a no-redstone auto-sorter.
Copper Golem drops
- •1–3 copper ingots (1–6 with Looting III)
Hitbox
- Width
- 0.49 blocks
- Height
- 0.98 blocks