Copper Ore
| Copper Ore | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | The Mines; Blacksmith; Fishing; Artifact Spot; Geodes; Panning; Traveling Cart |
| Sell Price | 5g |
Copper Ore is the first metal most farms dig up, and it sets the whole mining side of the game in motion. Bringing home a single piece makes Clint visit the next morning with the Furnace recipe, and that Furnace is what turns ore into Copper Bars. Those bars pay for the first round of tool upgrades and a long list of early machines. The ore itself also goes into the Cherry Bomb and two musical blocks from Robin. Raw ore sells for almost nothing, so nearly every piece is worth smelting. The top floors of The Mines are full of it, which makes the first weeks of mining a copper rush.
Location
Copper Nodes are the main supply. A pickaxe breaks each one for between one and three pieces of ore. Choosing the Miner profession at Mining level 5 raises that yield from every ore node. Floors 2 to 39 of The Mines hold the most copper nodes, and even the plain rocks around them often drop a single piece. Copper still appears deeper in The Mines, but much less often.
Other quarries have copper too. The Quarry beyond the Mountain spawns copper nodes, and so does the Quarry Mine inside it. On the Hill-top and Four Corners farm maps, the quarry on the farm itself grows copper nodes now and then. Any floor of Skull Cavern or the Volcano Dungeon can hold copper nodes as well.
Combat and digging add more. Copper Slimes in the Quarry Mine drop ore, and so do Metal Heads on the lower floors of The Mines. Breaking crates and barrels in The Mines turns up a few pieces. Geodes of every kind, fishing treasure chests and panning in any river can all give copper. Artifact spots in Pelican Town, the Mountain and several other spots may hold some. The Garbage Can outside the Blacksmith sometimes does too.
When time matters more than money, Clint sells Copper Ore at the Blacksmith. The price is many times the sell value, and it rises after the first year. At the Desert Festival, Clint also trades copper for Calico Eggs. A Stonefish Fish Pond sometimes produces a handful of copper as well.
Uses
Smelting is the main use. A Furnace takes five pieces of Copper Ore and one lump of Coal and produces a Copper Bar half an hour later. Several furnaces side by side clear a big pile of ore quickly. Since bars sell for far more than five pieces of ore, smelting always beats selling raw ore.
Copper Ore also goes straight into a few recipes. Clint's Furnace needs twenty pieces along with Stone, so the first mining trip should bring back plenty. Mining level 1 teaches the Cherry Bomb, made from four pieces of ore and a lump of Coal. Cherry Bombs clear a small ring of rocks at once, which speeds up early mining a great deal. Robin's 6-heart event teaches the Flute Block and the Drum Block. Each block takes two pieces of copper and plays a note when someone walks past.
Crafting Copper Ore with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Cherry Bomb | 
|
Copper Ore (4), Coal (1) |
| Drum Block | 
|
Stone (10), Copper Ore (2), Fiber (20) |
| Flute Block | 
|
Wood (10), Copper Ore (2), Fiber (20) |
| Furnace | 
|
Stone (25), Copper Ore (20) |
Notes
The morning after the first piece of copper reaches the inventory, Clint comes by with the Furnace blueprint. That visit starts the "Forging Ahead" quest, which asks for a Furnace to be built. Once it stands, a follow-up quest asks for the first Copper Bar to be smelted.
Clint sometimes posts a Help Wanted request for Copper Ore outside Pierre's General Store. A Stonefish pond asks for ten pieces before it can grow from one fish to three.
At the Sewing Machine, Copper Ore in the spool makes a dyeable Turtleneck Sweater. It also gives an orange dye at the dye pots in Emily and Haley's house.
Every villager hates receiving raw ore, Clint included, so it never belongs in a gift box.
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 |