Minecraft’s Copper Golem is the Best Kind of Broken Promise

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Minecraft‘s new Copper Age update delivers exactly what you’d expect. Players have long collected copper, but haven’t had many ways to use it. Now, there are several more options, particularly when starting a new game. You can craft copper tools, weapons, and armor, making it a useful choice when other materials are hard to find. However, the biggest addition in this update is undoubtedly the Copper Golem, a new creature you can summon.

It’s been a long time since Minecraft introduced a new golem – players have only had the iron and snow golems for years, making this a noteworthy event. This is especially true considering the copper golem’s unique function: sorting items for players. However, this isn’t quite what Mojang initially presented when they first proposed the copper golem during the 2021 Mob Vote. Since then, Mojang has significantly changed the golem’s primary purpose, and while some may see that as a drawback, the final version is still a great addition to the game.

Minecraft: The Copper Golem Has Undergone a Total Transformation

In 2021, the copper golem was a contender in the annual Mob Vote, going up against the glare and the allay. Mojang described it as a helper for redstone contraptions; it would automatically press copper buttons, allowing players to run machines without needing to be present. While this concept gave it an edge over the glare, it only received 45.7% of the votes, meaning Minecraft ultimately chose to add the allay instead.

Following four years of being largely unknown, the copper golem is now officially recognized, though its role has significantly evolved:

  • The copper golem seeks out copper chests and looks for items inside, grabbing up to 16 at a time.
  • Once it has an item in hand, the golem looks for a regular chest or trapped chest containing the same type of items, and stores its cargo there.
  • It ignores items on the ground or other types of chests, only interacting with copper, trapped, or regular chests.

Keeping your items organized is a frequent task in Minecraft, and this golem can really help simplify things. Instead of manually sorting through your loot and placing it in chests, players can use copper golems to automatically organize everything they find in their bases.

Copper golems are actually simpler to create than iron or snow golems. To build a copper golem in Minecraft, all you need to do is place a carved pumpkin or jack o’lantern on top of a block of copper.

Mojang Has Made the Copper Golem Far More Essential

It feels a little odd that Mojang released the copper golem in a way that’s so different from what we expected. There’s definitely something missing; Minecraft players are incredibly creative with redstone, and a helper that automatically presses buttons could have inspired a lot of new ideas. It’s disappointing that we might not see those possibilities realized.

Honestly, I think the finished copper golem is way more helpful for most Minecraft players. Redstone in Minecraft can be really tricky, and a lot of us just don’t bother with it. So, giving the golem this new job feels both more useful and easier to pick up for everyone. This mob is something I can actually see myself using in Minecraft every time I play, instead of needing to build some complicated redstone machine to get it working.

The copper golem remains useful with redstone components. After it becomes fully oxidized, it transforms into a statue that outputs a redstone signal depending on its current position.

The Copper Golem Blazes a Trail for Minecraft’s Other Mob Vote Competitors

It’s important to remember that many of Minecraft‘s previous Mob Vote contenders were also quite specific in their appeal. The previously mentioned glare was designed to check light levels and alert the player when it was dark enough for monsters to appear – useful, but not a necessity. The copper golem shows that Mojang is capable of improving upon older mob concepts to create fantastic features for Minecraft, even if it means significantly changing what those mobs were originally intended to do. For the game to continue to improve, Mojang should continue to abandon older ideas in favor of innovation.

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2025-10-03 02:06