Pressure Plate

Pressure Plate

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Wooden Pressure Plate

Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	?
Tools	32px
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Stone: No Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava
Drops	Itself
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

This article is about stone and wooden pressure plates. For gold and iron pressure plates, see Weighted Pressure Plate.

A pressure plate is a non-solid block that can be used to detect players, mobs, items, etc.

There are two versions of the pressure plate: the stone pressure plate () and the wooden pressure plate (16px). The only difference between the two are which entities they can detect.

Obtaining

A stone pressure plate can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing. A wooden pressure plate can be mined using any tool, or without a tool, however axes are the fastest.

Block	Stone	Wooden
Hardness	0.5	0.5
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	2.5	0.75
Wooden	0.4	0.4
Stone	0.2	0.2
Iron	0.15	0.15
Diamond	0.1	0.1
Golden	0.1	0.1

A pressure plate will also be removed and drop itself as an item:

• if the block beneath it is moved, removed, or destroyed
• if a piston tries to push it or moves a block into its space

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Stone Pressure Plate	Stone
Wooden Pressure Plate	Any Wood Planks	Wooden Pressure Plate

Natural generation

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Pressure plates used as tables in a village library.

One stone pressure plate is generated naturally in each desert temple.

Wooden pressure plates are generated naturally in villages on top of fences as a table.

Usage

A pressure plate can be used to craft detector rails, to smelt items, or can be used as a redstone component.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Detector Rail	Iron Ingot + Stone Pressure Plate + Redstone	6

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit

A pressure plate can be used to detect entities on top of it (players, mobs, items, etc.).

Placement

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Pressure plate placement and behavior.

Pressure plates on fences.

To place a pressure plate, use it while aiming at the face of a block adjacent to the destination space.

A pressure plate can be attached to:

• the top of any full solid opaque block (stone, dirt, blocks of gold, etc.), including full-block mechanism components (command blocks, dispensers, droppers, note blocks, and redstone lamps)
• the top of a hopper, fence, nether brick fence, an upside-down slab, or upside-down stairs.

A pressure plate cannot be attached to the side or bottom of any block, but attempting to make such an attachment may cause the plate to attach to the top of a block under the destination space. For example, if a fence is on the ground, attempting to attach a plate to the side of the fence will cause the plate to be attached to the top of the ground next to the fence instead.

Activation

A pressure plate activates when an entity is on top of it (specifically, when the entity's collision mask intersects the bottom quarter-block of the pressure plate's space, which may include entities flying close to the ground) and deactivates 5 redstone ticks (0.5 seconds, barring lag) after no entities are on top of it, with a minimum activation time of 10 redstone ticks (1.0 seconds, barring lag).^[Verify]

A stone pressure plate is activated only by mobs (including players), while a wooden pressure plate is activated by all entities (including players, mobs, items, arrows, experience orbs, fishing bobs, etc.) besides snowballs.

A minecart traveling on rails will activate a pressure plate next to a diagonal track but not one next to a straight track (stone pressure plates are activated only if the minecart contains a mob or player).

Behavior

While active, a pressure plate:

• powers adjacent redstone dust, and adjacent redstone comparators or redstone repeaters facing away from the plate, to power level 15
• strongly powers any full solid opaque block beneath it to power level 15
• activates adjacent mechanism components, including above or below, such as pistons, redstone lamps, etc.

Water and lava will flow around a pressure plate without affecting it.

A pressure plate is not solid (it is not a barrier to entity movement). A block under a pressure plate can provide a solid barrier underneath it (for mobs to walk across, items to fall on, etc.), but when a pressure plate is placed on a block with a small collision mask, such as a fence or nether brick fence, it is possible for entities to move through the pressure plate while still activating it (walking through it horizontally, or falling through it vertically). Thus, a pressure plate on a fence can be used to detect entities without stopping them (more compactly than a tripwire circuit).

Pressure plates are 0.0625 blocks high (¹⁄₁₆ of a block) when inactive and 0.03125 blocks high (¹⁄₃₂ of a block) when active, but because they are not solid they do not affect the position of entities "on top" of them (for example, a player on top of a pressure plate is actually standing on the block beneath it).

Fuel

Wooden pressure plates can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per pressure plate.

Data values

A pressure plate is defined by its ID and block data. A pressure plate also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

ID

A pressure plate's ID specifies what type of pressure plate it is.

Name	ID Name	Block ID
Stone Pressure Plate	minecraft:stone_pressure_plate	70
Wooden Pressure Plate	minecraft:wooden_pressure_plate	72

Block data

See also: Data values

A pressure plate's data value specifies whether is it active:

Bits	Values
0x1	If this bit is set, the pressure plate is active.
0x2 0x4 0x8	Unused.

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
powered	true false	True if pressure plate is depressed, providing power.

History

Alpha
1.0.1				Αρχείο:Grid Stone Pressure Plate pre 1.9.pngΑρχείο:Grid Wooden Pressure Plate pre 1.9.png Added pressure plates.
Beta
1.3				Pressure plates only require two wood planks/stone to craft; previous versions required three (this recipe now creates wooden or stone slabs).
1.5				Stone pressure plates are now used to craft detector rails.
1.6				Wooden plates no longer require a pickaxe to be successfully extracted; before they used to. Both types of plates can also be recovered by destroying the block they are on.
				Pressure plates may no longer be placed on leaf blocks. Pressure plates placed on leaf blocks prior to this update will drop when stepped on and may be recollected.
1.8				Pressure plates are placeable on fences, though they are not functional as pressure plates in this configuration.
Official release
1.0.0		Beta 1.9-pre2		Pressure plates now function when placed on top of fences.
1.3.1		12w21a		A stone pressure plate now generates in desert temples.
		12w23a		Wooden pressure plates can be activated by arrows.
1.9		15w31a		Αρχείο:Grid Wooden Pressure Plate.png Now have a slightly flatter look in the inventory.
		15w43a		Wood pressure plates are given a different, slightly more high-pitched activation sound, so that they no longer match the sound of stone pressure plates.
		15w46a		Mobs no longer spawn on pressure plates.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.13.0		build 1		Added pressure plates. Stone pressure plates are used to craft detector rails.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Added pressure plates.
TU5				Pressure plates are placeable on fences.
TU14		1.04		Wooden pressure plates can be activated by arrows.

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