Mojang has announced the next game drop for Minecraft.

The update will feature the revival of the Copper Golem, one of the runner-ups from the 2021 Mob Vote , along with the addition of Copper as a new mining material. You can check out the trailer below for more details:

A new friend with a familiar patina

Test the copper golem, chest, items, and armor

Could your chests do with a bit less chaos? Do you crave more variety in your tools? Get ready, because the first features from our third game drop of 2025 are available to test now in Bedrock beta and preview* and coming soon to Java snapshot! Get a new companion in the form of the copper golem and its chest, then discover tools, weapons, and armor made from – of course – copper. Farther down, you can also watch our dev diary on how this happy helper came to be!

The copper golem

The copper golem is a mob that helps you sort your inventory and generally makes your base a livelier, clonkier cuter place to be as it builds a stunning patina. The copper golem doesn’t spawn on its own but is instead summoned by players like yourself! To make a copper golem, all you have to do is place a carved pumpkin on a copper block. Once that’s done, the golem will spawn, together with a copper chest.

The copper chest

Your first copper chest can only be obtained by making a copper golem, after which you can pick it up to learn the recipe. This chest is special because it acts as more than just storage. Copper golems will open these chests, pick up as many items as they can carry, then take them to the other chests in your base, even sorting your items neatly into stacks. Plus, it looks really pretty! Choose your patina level, wax it, and display it proudly.

Copper weapons, tools, and armor

Copper is officially becoming an equipment tier! Its durability sits somewhere between stone and iron, which reflects onto the equipment you craft from it, be it a weapon, tool, or piece of armor. For example, a copper pickaxe will help you mine a bit faster and for a bit longer than a stone pickaxe but won’t allow you to mine any additional materials – you’ll still need to upgrade to iron for that. Its abundance makes copper the perfect early-game material, which means I won’t have to scour dark caves holding a stone sword in search of a morsel of iron. Yay!

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