The Fastest Way To Oxidize Copper? #Shorts

In this Minecraft #Shorts video, Xisuma investigates how copper oxidizes at different speeds in the hopes of finding the fastest method to convert copper. Minecraft copper is hard to farm, copper ore is grindy to mine and so the last thing we want to do is wait for a block copper to convert to oxidized copper.

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[xisumavoid]

This video could of been a full Myth Busting Episode but I decided to condense it to a short since the conclusion is simple.
Take the results with a pinch of salt as I don't know whats happening under the hood but clearly the spreading out myth has merit!

[Raskolnikov]

This was a pretty smart thing for Mojang to do. If you want to oxidize a bunch of copper quickly you can do it by spreading it out, but you have lots more time to enjoy your copper roofs slowly turning green.

[ArchetypeGotoh]

The mechanics of this are pretty cool. Copper has a “ready to oxidize” state, and if another copper block is in the process of oxidizing within 4 blocks as the first one is “ready”, the “ready” block resets. So space out the blocks, no interference, and all goes at its pace!

[sanastratus]

I think this format suits your content well! Something I'm sure lots of minecrafters would want to know, quick and to the point. I'd like to see more shorts from you!

[humourlessjester]

I personally prefer aging all of my copper first to the maximum aging state, build with them, scrape them to that age I want them to be at, and finally wax them all when done.

[Danodan]

This needs further testing. During this experiment, we not only spread out the copper blocks, but we took a whole bunch of them right out of the equation. What if it's dependent on the amount of copper waiting to oxidize and not the amount of space between copper blocks?

[Jesthers]

The wiki says that copper won't oxidise until all the other copper blocks around it are at a similar state (like in the first test, where it oxidised in waves).

So, spreading them out and making sure they aren't near any copper blocks skips this process and makes them oxidise faster.

[TrickLunar]

Ah I see, XIsuma is experimenting with Youtube shorts huh? Anyways thank you for the nice and quick info, this will definitely help with my understanding of this blocky game.

[realastropulse]

X I think you performed the testing here in the wrong way. You used a fixed volume with a varying amount of blocks, a proper test would have been to see how fast the same number of blocks would oxidize in different formations. Ultimately you can extract that data from these numbers, but honestly you may have actually just confused the whole issue more than before.

For the record, 4 spaces between is the fastest, and 5 is actually identical. This is because of how the game decides which copper to oxidize.

I think you should do a full mythbusting episode on this, and try out different formations and patterns.

Weird stuff: For a given volume, packing the copper right next to each other is actually the fastest. For example, if you have a flat surface that is 48x48 blocks (just like the video) and you fill it with 2304 copper blocks, it will take 153.8 days to oxidize (per the tests). If you were to place 100 copper blocks 4 blocks apart (filling up the same volume of 2304 blocks) and remove and replace them once they oxidized, it would take 276.1 days to oxidize the same 2304 copper blocks as in the first example. This is because spacing out copper blocks by 4 makes the density only 4%! (This isn't even accounting for 3D stacking) With no spacing, you could fit 25 copper blocks in the same space as 1 copper block, so for a given space its more efficient to fill the whole area.

[tommasomaruffi]

Uh, i thought that the patches of oxidized copper would help make everything faster, but it's completely the opposite :/

[someone]

I feel like the difference between the four and five block tests could easily be random chance, especially as the variable you kept constant was the area of the test, rather than the number of copper blocks, meaning each successive test is more rng dependent and less likely to show an accurate average

[GuusKlaas]

Okay, I got the urge to flip my laptop. I like the format of a short, just not the aspect ratio - that being said, the way oxidation spread + spreading makes me wonder (considering it seems to spread if oxidised blocks are around it) how fast it'd go if you were to use "seeder" blocks: pre-oxidised blocks (of several grades?) to spread oxidisation to a bulk of non-oxidised blocks.

[isaacwhite]

If they were trying to emulate oxidation via exposed surface area, I’d be curious to know if elevating the blocks off the ground by the same amount of space would speed it up even more?

[pixlepalzcrowther]

I don’t know. Pretty sure the REAL way to oxidise copper is in the shape of an among us

[zeronought]

I don't really get why there is such a trend to pre-age the copper before building with it. Takes so much time, you can just build and let it age in place.

[Drawoon]

you can fit even more blocks in the same space with the same time if you put them diagonally

[NeuroAlex]

Y'all need to calculate the speed : density ratio to normalize across conditions. Also consider the time it takes to place the blocks. This is the more relevant bit for players as even though no space is the slowest to oxidize, it might be the most efficient at actually producing large #s of blocks

[barchtic]

Should have normalized the amount of blocks in each test.

[TrekGineer]

It's in the game code that it checks 4 blocks either way, 5 seems faster because there are less blocks because he used an area instead of a number of blocks

[just_space_]

Omg I love animated Xolotl explaining 😭❤