Copper Bar
| Copper Bar | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Shadow Brute (4%); Shadow Shaman (4%) |
| Sell Price | 60g |
The Copper Bar is the first metal bar a farm produces, and it is the workhorse of the early game. Clint asks for five of them for every first tool upgrade, from the Copper Hoe to the Copper Watering Can. The same bars build the Sprinkler, the Mayonnaise Machine, the Tapper, the Charcoal Kiln, the Cheese Press, the Keg and the Silo. With so many recipes competing for them, copper bars are always in short supply during the first season of mining. Clint and Maru both like receiving one as a gift.
Location
Smelting is the only steady way to make Copper Bars. A Furnace loaded with five pieces of Copper Ore and a lump of Coal turns out one bar in half an hour. Clint gives the Furnace recipe the morning after the first Copper Ore is found, so bars are available from the very first mining trip. Several furnaces running side by side keep up with a big haul of ore. Mining Mastery later unlocks the Heavy Furnace, which smelts a much bigger load of ore at once.
A few bars also come without smelting. Shadow Brutes and Shadow Shamans on the deeper floors of The Mines occasionally drop one. The Traveling Cart sometimes sells them at a high price.
Prices
Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.
| Quality | Price | Blacksmith (+50%) |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 60g | 90g |
Uses
Tool upgrades are the biggest early use. Clint takes five Copper Bars and a fee to upgrade a tool to copper, and the work takes two days. During that time the tool stays at the Blacksmith, so it is best handed in on a rainy day or when that tool is not needed. A Copper Hoe or Copper Watering Can can be charged to work three tiles in a row. A Copper Axe can chop Large Stumps, which give Hardwood. A Copper Pickaxe breaks rocks in The Mines in fewer swings. The Copper Trash Can returns part of the value of anything thrown away.
Many early machines need a single bar or two. Farming level 2 brings both the Sprinkler and the Mayonnaise Machine, and each takes one Copper Bar. The Sprinkler also needs an Iron Bar and waters the four tiles around it every morning. Foraging level 2 teaches the Charcoal Kiln, and Foraging level 4 teaches the Tapper, each with two bars. Farming level 6 adds the Cheese Press and level 8 the Keg, which takes a Copper Bar, an Iron Bar and Oak Resin.
Robin needs five Copper Bars to build a Silo, alongside Stone and Clay. A Silo stores the Hay that animals eat through Winter, so those bars are worth setting aside before the first animals arrive.
Fishing and combat use copper too. Combat level 1 teaches the Sturdy Ring, which joins copper with Bug Meat and Slime. Taking the Trapper profession lowers the Crab Pot recipe to Wood and two Copper Bars. Fishing level 6 teaches the Trap Bobber, and level 8 teaches the Barbed Hook. Willy's "Juicy Bugs Wanted!" Special Order rewards the Quality Bobber recipe, which also takes a Copper Bar.
Mining level 4 teaches Transmute (Fe), a recipe that turns Copper Bars into an Iron Bar. It costs more copper than it is worth in iron, so it is only useful when an Iron Bar is needed in a hurry.
Crafting Copper Bar with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Big Chest | 
|
Wood (120), Copper Bar (2) |
| Charcoal Kiln | 
|
Wood (20), Copper Bar (2) |
| Cheese Press | 
|
Wood (45), Stone (45), Hardwood (10), Copper Bar (1) |
| Keg | 
|
Wood (30), Copper Bar (1), Iron Bar (1), Oak Resin (1) |
| Mayonnaise Machine | 
|
Wood (15), Stone (15), Earth Crystal (1), Copper Bar (1) |
| Sprinkler | 
|
Copper Bar (1), Iron Bar (1) |
| Tapper | 
|
Wood (40), Copper Bar (2) |
Notes
The Blacksmith's Bundle in the Boiler Room of the Community Center needs one Copper Bar.
The Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store sometimes asks for a Copper Bar once the Furnace blueprint is known. Stonefish and Catfish ponds may ask for a few bars before they grow.
The Blacksmith profession at Mining level 10 raises the sell price of every metal bar by half. Even so, bars usually earn more as machines than as sales.
At the Sewing Machine, a Copper Bar in the spool makes the Copper Breastplate. Placed in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house, it colours clothes orange.
Sam hates receiving a Copper Bar, and most other villagers dislike it.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |