Copper Sink

This article is a work in progress.

Please help in the expansion or creation of this article by expanding or improving it. The talk page may contain suggestions.

This article documents an April Fools' joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
It is documented here on the wiki due to being officially-released content by Mojang Studios, even if not present in a final version.

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

The copper sink is a joke block introduced in Java Edition 23w13a_or_b. It can be used to hold water.

Copper sinks can only be crafted and placed if the "Add Copper Sink" proposal is approved.

Obtaining

Breaking

Copper sinks do not have an associated tool and cannot be dropped with Silk Touch.

Block	Copper Sink
Hardness	2
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Block of Copper

Usage

Copper sinks can be filled with water. They are implemented rather simply: a water bucket can be emptied in a sink after which it becomes filled, interacting with a filled sink using an empty bucket fills the bucket. Bottles cannot interact with the copper sink, nor can buckets with other liquids.

Dropping any exclusively copper-based items into the sink will delete them, including Raw Copper, Copper Ingot, Block of Copper, and other copper sinks.

Sounds

Generic

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.copper.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.copper.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.copper.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.copper.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.copper.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Unique

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Water drips	Blocks	When dripping water from a pointed dripstone falls into a copper sink	`block.pointed_dripstone.drip_water_into_cauldron`	`subtitles.block.pointed_dripstone.drip_water_into_cauldron`	2.0	0.9-1.0	16
Lava drips	Blocks	When dripping lava from a pointed dripstone falls into a copper sink	`block.pointed_dripstone.drip_lava_into_cauldron`	`subtitles.block.pointed_dripstone.drip_lava_into_cauldron`	2.0	0.9-1.0	16
Bucket empties	Blocks	When water from a bucket is placed in a copper sink ^{[sound 1]}	`item.bucket.empty`	`subtitles.item.bucket.empty`	1.0	1.0 ^{[sound 2]}	16
Bucket fills	Blocks	When water from a bucket is removed from a copper sink	`item.bucket.fill`	`subtitles.item.bucket.fill`	1.0	1.0	16

↑ empty1 plays twice as often as the other sounds
↑ Except for the second copy of empty1, which is 0.9

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Copper Sink	`copper_sink`	Block & Item	None	`block.minecraft.copper_sink`
Filled Copper Sink	`filled_copper_sink`	Block	None	`block.minecraft.filled_copper_sink`

History

Java Edition
23w13a_or_b					Added copper sinks.

Issues

Copper sink blocks are an unsupported item due to being an April Fools' joke, and therefore such issues relating to them will not be fixed.

Trivia

The copper sink block is a joke referring to the Minecraft community's request that Mojang add a copper "sink" (in videogame development language, a "sink" metaphorically refers to a gameplay feature that requires constant resource investment, preventing the situation in which players begin hoarding resources as they have more than they could ever need), as copper ingots have few uses compared to other similar items like iron ingots. This would explain why the recipe makes use of blocks of copper rather than copper ingots.

Gallery

A developer confirming what the copper sink is a joke of.

[bugMC-177082-1] MC-177082

[2] empty1 plays twice as often as the other sounds

[3] Except for the second copy of empty1, which is 0.9

[sound 1]

[sound 1]

[sound 2]