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Wax on, Wax off

Wax on, Wax off

Apply and remove Wax from all the Copper blocks!!!

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How to unlock the Wax on, Wax off achievement in Minecraft - Definitive Guide

For those who intend to do this in survival.

In short: You need 4+ copper block/36+ ore , an axe, 16 honeycombs, Stonecutter

For this achievement you'll need to apply a honeycomb, the wax, to all 16 copper block variants AND remove it using an axe.
These blocks are:
Block of Copper
Cut Copper block
Cut Copper Stairs
Cut Copper Slab

As well as their Exposed/Weathered/Oxidized variants.

The way it works is that blocks "degrade" or oxidize over time when placed in order of:
Normal(solid brown) > Exposed > Weathered > Oxidized(solid green)
Using an axe on an unwaxed block reverts/polishes the block 1 step so realistically you only need 4 oxidized copper blocks.
Use 3 of these to craft an oxidized cut block, stair and slab using the stonecutter.
Or alternatively just craft the normal variants and have those oxidize (You'll need more copper this way but no stonecutter).

Then just place the 4 types of oxidized variants each 4 blocks apart, apply the wax, remove the wax and polish the block 1 stage, and repeat this for all oxidation stages. You can check the achievement progress before polishing to be safe (25% per stage/variant).

To get the materials:
Copper: Can be mined as ore pretty much anywhere, smelted into ingots with a furnace then crafted into blocks
Honeycomb: use sheers on beehives with honey, found most commonly in (sunflower) plains or flower forests, or occasionally in other forests or hills.
Stonecutter and axe: Craft using crafting table

Tips:
- Blocks when placed close together degrade slower placing them 4 blocks apart, speeds up the progress by a lot. It will still take a while, use this time to place more copper of do something else.
- Copper oxidizes randomly over time, the more blocks placed the more likely a block degrades,
basically place lots of blocks with 4 spaces between to speed things up.

- When using an old world, copper still spawns but not in areas that have been previously loaded/visited. Nether portals and elytra+fireworks can be used to travel distances quickly.
- Bees attack when you collect honey, placing a campfire underneath makes them docile.
- Applying wax: orange particles. Removing wax: white particles
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09 Jun 2021 23:20

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So do I just need 36 raw ore? How much total do I need?
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By Homunculus Fury on 11 Jun 2021 04:11
Obviously not, check how many solid blocks you need for each piece, not to mention that with only one of each piece it will take a while for all of them to oxidize. Get at least 4 sets of each piece to speed up the process
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By XxZhiTxX on 11 Jun 2021 06:02
You should theoretically be able to do this with two blocks of copper. Oxidize them both, then turn one of them into the basic cut variant, do the steps on both (wax-cut, wax-cut), then reoxidize them both and turn one into slabs and the other into stairs at a stonecutter and repeat the steps. Currently in the process of doing this on my realm.
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By Jelliebean71 on 11 Jun 2021 09:15
The tip about spacing them 4 blocks apart is incredibly useful, place a load of blocks four apart and they will change a lot quicker so it is useful to get as much copper as you can
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By EMOO ELITE on 11 Jun 2021 09:25
@Homunculus Fury
You need 36 ore to craft 4 blocks of copper, you don't need both.
But the more blocks of copper have, the faster one changes. Basically the more the better.

If you don't use the stonecutter on the oxidized blocks and instead just place the crafted items, you need a lot more.

@Jelliebean71
Good point, hadn't thought about that. Doesn't save you time I think, but if you're low on copper it could help.
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By smashingrascal on 11 Jun 2021 10:27
5 hours in and only 1 block done, still waiting for the others to Oxodise, so to the person saying 2-3 hours yeah you're way off
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By Arador on 12 Jun 2021 01:45
End time just shy of 7 hours
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By Arador on 12 Jun 2021 06:21
My dude, read the guide, understand how it works. If you only place one block at a time, it's gonna take you forever, I did it in 3 hours placing only 4 pieces of each (16 total), therefore could be done way quicker if you place more. Don't call me out just because you're too lazy to properly read a guide or the Minecraft Wiki
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By XxZhiTxX on 12 Jun 2021 14:41
@BadderSphinx578 Maybe it's delayed? Or maybe the tracker hasn't synced to your game? Try deleting the game save from your hard drive and re-download from the cloud, just make sure you have it backed up before deleting it
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By XxZhiTxX on 22 Jun 2021 22:06
@XxZhiTxX I didn't place one block at a time I had about 12 blocks all 4 blocks apart in a flat open surface
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By Arador on 02 Jul 2021 09:49
Took about 6 hours to get all the blocks. The best tip was to place the blocks by themselves with 4 blocks in between. Surprisingly some blocks had reached stage 4 while others were still in stage 1. Definitely luck/random oxidation times.
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By DNGRDOOM64 on 18 Jul 2021 20:18
@HolyHalfDead You're right, I had forests as a general term to include all types.
Didn't notice the chances being that low, changed it for clarity.
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By smashingrascal on 20 Jul 2021 21:38
I have a world for this for BEDROCK saved if anyone needs this achievement. Took me 3 hours to get it. This'll give it to you in 1 minute. I've now got all achievements for Minecraft
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By ALI 2009 on 04 Aug 2021 20:15
ok I seemed to have missed the put blocks with 4 spaces inbetween, had left the world on for 3 real days and all my blocks had only weathered by 1 step (bar 1 that hadn't). Soon as I spread them all out with a 4 block space inbetween I had most fully weathered within 2hours!! very important to not skip this bit laugh
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By jordan macit on 25 Aug 2021 03:27
In bedrock it says 16/32 for me, can anyone tell me why? I’ve applied wax to all the blocks and removed it from all as well.
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By MrToxicJelly on 10 Sep 2021 11:25
If anyone has this one set up, please for the love of God shoot me a message
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By Jordevoir on 18 Sep 2021 17:25
i’m not even joking, this works! just really make sure you pay attention to the part where it says “place each copper block at least 4 blocks apart from each other” THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH!
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By xiluvq on 27 Sep 2021 20:44
You only need two oxidized copper blocks, right? When I cut one up it gave me enough cut blocks to make all three of the other parts out of a single block.

Really I got impatient and did it with just one block by copying the world before cutting or waxing my one block.
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By Kol Magius on 25 Jan 2022 20:25
Make sure you manually “wax on” the blocks by placing the copper block and hitting it with your honeycomb. Crafting the blocks in the crafting table will not work.
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By yungmaxo on 24 Jul 2022 05:44
Still have an achievement world for anyone who’s needing help with achievements. GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 02 Jan 2023 16:16
Great solution!
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By SpockMcCoyIE on 27 Jun 2023 11:49
Thumbs up from me 👍
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By on 18 Dec 2023 23:03
Great guide, I was gonna post one for those of us that don't want to download achievement worlds but your guide covers pretty much everything. This achievement should take 2-3 hours approximately depending on your luck to get the copper oxidized, therefore place as many pieces as you can, separated by at least 4 blocks like the guide says! toast
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By XxZhiTxX on 10 Jun 2021 14:34
Not working for me at all, all done in survival, all 16 variants. Only difference being I am playing 1.17.10 pre release on Beta although the other 2 achievements for this update have popped in the same world no problem.. Any advice?
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By BadderSphinx578 on 22 Jun 2021 16:06
The hardest part of this achievement is finding a beehive. I have lots of Oxidized copper blocks, but cannot find any bees. Forests are not the best places to look for them:

5% chance = Plains, Sunflower plains
3% chance = Flower forest
0.035% chance = Forest, Wooded hills, Birch forest, Tall birch forest, Birch forest hills, Tall birch hills
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By HolyHalfDead on 20 Jul 2021 19:38
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Here's a video guide and a downloaded world for this achievement

Shouout to MCPandagamerz for the world!

World Download Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/87kmbxju7lnkq6u/1.17%20achievement...

Video Guide:
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12 Jun 2021 19:40

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Can you load it on a pc instead?
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By BiLLzuMaNaTi on 13 Jun 2021 17:03
For anyone wondering how to play downloaded worlds, it's as simple as double clicking on the .MCWORLD file while having Minecraft Windows 10 Edition open. The map should start importing and will go under your Worlds.
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By Unknwn Monster on 19 Jun 2021 10:21
yo if I drop my gt can someone who has it downloaded inv me?
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By ArmedStudent023 on 21 Jun 2021 08:58
Good world.
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By 灬嘻嘻哈哈灬 on 15 Jul 2021 01:38
how do you get this map on xbox?
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By belgianplayer1 on 06 Sep 2021 17:42
Link is broke. Please update
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By Jordevoir on 01 Dec 2021 19:12
My Dropbox was suspended for 24 hours due to excessive traffic. It’ll work tm
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By BiLLzuMaNaTi on 01 Dec 2021 20:15
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items needed for this

honeycomb & axe

cut copper stairs
cut copper slab
cut copper
block copper

exposed cut copper stairs
exposed cut copper slab
exposed cut copper
exposed copper

weathered cut copper stairs
weathered cut copper slab
weathered copper
weathered cut copper

oxidised cut copper stairs
oxidised cut copper slab
oxidised copper
oxidised cut copper
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08 Jun 2021 20:13

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i’ll be hosting the world today
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By TheWelshTurtle on 09 Jun 2021 04:56
Any good Cooper seeds?
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By on 08 Jun 2021 22:17
sorry i don’t know any seeds i just update the world i use
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By TheWelshTurtle on 08 Jun 2021 22:22
Will copper ore spawn in your current world? Or will I need to start a new game?
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By rafter84 on 08 Jun 2021 22:46
yeah if you not been in the chunk before
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By TheWelshTurtle on 08 Jun 2021 22:56
Crap. I've explored a lot of my world already. Not sure how far out I'm going to have to travel to find a a newly generated chunk or world.
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By rafter84 on 08 Jun 2021 23:01
Anybody know of any achievement servers that have updated for these yet? lol
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By Mr Yin 90210 on 08 Jun 2021 23:09
I have an achievement server that I use but it hasn’t been updated, even worse is that I unlocked all the past achievements. Anyone have a new server with the updates achievements?
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By on 08 Jun 2021 23:13
yeah i updated my world when they came out
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By TheWelshTurtle on 08 Jun 2021 23:28
Yea if guys wanna keep your same world take the nether portal and just fly around 1000-3000 blocks away. I found some caves there because I’ve never been that far.
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By JulianHdxz on 09 Jun 2021 01:05
TheWelshTurtle available on xbox?
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By Mr Yin 90210 on 09 Jun 2021 02:31
This works on current worlds. I did what julian said and my nether portal popped right into a room of amethyst
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By PickleRick#6827 on 09 Jun 2021 10:58
TheWelshTurtle Awesome, how can join your server? Can I add you on xbox? Much appreciated 😃
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By Mr Yin 90210 on 09 Jun 2021 12:06
WARNING: if the world has been active for long enough, the rusting process seems to accelerate. This might prevent you from waxing it, preventing the achievement from unlocking. Fresh worlds don't have this problem.
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By mrbellek on 09 Jun 2021 13:23
all you got to do is do the achievement and wait about 5 minutes but if you want to play minecraft and start from scratch go ahead but if you want it faster download my world
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By TheWelshTurtle on 09 Jun 2021 13:27
Worked like a charm Nice work!! I put wax on all the blocks first and then took it off
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By JullianGG on 09 Jun 2021 18:10
Can you help me welshturtle?
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By CaptainOats82 on 09 Jun 2021 21:52
i opened a minecraft realm now guys so you don’t have to wait for me https://realms.gg/wQ5bQ2SQ7Z4
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By TheWelshTurtle on 09 Jun 2021 22:31
@TheWelshTurtle Absolute legend! Thank you for the Realm!
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By LordFightALot on 09 Jun 2021 23:02
how does one fix the outdated client stuff? i clicked Welsh's link and get the outdated realms client after entering the code.
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By a 1WP VidMast3r on 10 Jun 2021 00:27
never mind found the issue
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By a 1WP VidMast3r on 10 Jun 2021 00:29
@TheWelshTurtle You are a legend...thank you...in my own world, I found the copper easily, but ran around for 5 hours looking for bee hives...no luck.
Also, the oxidation takes 2 minecraft days and nights, if you leave the 4 block spaces...test it by leaving a single copper block on its own...I was on easy difficulty.
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By SleetyHaddock72 on 10 Jun 2021 20:55
@TheWelshTurtle just did Xbox/windows/switch without problem..thank you
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By ClassicalDonkey on 11 Jun 2021 01:44
@TheWelshTurtle just did Xbox/windows/switch without problem..thank you
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By ClassicalDonkey on 11 Jun 2021 12:56
i closed the realm so you got to download the world now
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By TheWelshTurtle on 11 Jun 2021 13:17
How do I download the world?
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By KludgyCartoon79 on 11 Jun 2021 15:15
How do you download worlds on Xbox one.
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By Goggs25 on 16 Jun 2021 13:41
Invite me please, i just need of this achievement (Android)
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By MiraWhoo on 09 Jun 2021 07:00
Is there any quick way to bash this one? Feels like it'd take an age to do, especially when bees in my world don't hang about for too long...
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By JeeperCreeperMC on 09 Jun 2021 09:33
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