Best Y Level for Copper in Minecraft
Mine at Y 46, or look in dripstone caves, which have about 4 times as much copper.
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Y 46. Copper spawns from Y -19 to Y 112 and is most common in the middle of that range, at Y 46 and Y 47.
In dripstone caves. Copper veins there are much bigger, which adds up to about 4 times as much copper as anywhere else.
Big veins of copper ore mixed with granite and blocks of raw copper. They spawn between Y 0 and Y 49 and hold far more copper than normal ore. The chart shows normal copper ore only.
A stone pickaxe or better. A wooden or gold pickaxe breaks copper ore without dropping anything.