Obtaining
A wooden pressure plate can be mined using any tool, or without a tool, however axes are the fastest. All other types can only be mined with a pickaxe
| Block | Stone Iron Gold | Wooden | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Tool | |||
Breaking "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by  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 | |
- ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.
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 Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on
tries to push it or moves a block into its space
Trivia
- Pressure Plates in the Minecraft Xbox 360 edition are too oversized to be used as Tables.
- If a TNT block is placed directly under any other block that has a pressure plate on it, the TNT will be activated when the Pressure Plate is stepped on, making a landmine.
- Pressure Plates are used as tables in Villages, except in the pocket edition, where carpets are used.
- Pressure Plates block water or lava from flowing.
Info
A pressure plate is a non- solid Comparison of the solid stone and liquid water blocks Solid blocks are a category of block. Contents 1 Properties 2 List of solid blocks 2.1 List of non-solid blocks 3 Height 4 Video 5 History 
block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 
that can be used to detect players, mobs, items, etc. It has four variants:
- Wooden: Can detect all entities, giving out a maximum signal strength.
- Stone: Can only detect players The Player Health points 20 () Armor points Varies Attack strength Fist: 1 () Items: Varies Size Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks While sneaking: Height: 1.65 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks While gliding: Height: 0.6 and mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of , giving out a maximum signal strength.
- Light weighted: Can detect all entities. The signal strength increases as more entities are added
- Heavy weighted: Similar to a light weighted pressure plate but requires much higher quantities to be activated.
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Crafting
Natural generation
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 tableJavaand Console editions.
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 See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition  | Ingredients | Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid  recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Detector Rail | Iron Ingot+ Stone Pressure Plate+ Redstone |
Redstone component
- See also: Redstone circuit
A pressure plate can be used to detect entities on top of it (players, mobs, items, etc.).
- Placement
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 instance, 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 "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of 
(including players), while a wooden pressure plate or a weighted 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
| Signal Strength | Number of entities required | |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Plate | Iron Plate | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1–10 |
| 2 | 2 | 11–20 |
| 3 | 3 | 21–30 |
| 4 | 4 | 31–40 |
| 5 | 5 | 41–50 |
| 6 | 6 | 51–60 |
| 7 | 7 | 61–70 |
| 8 | 8 | 71–80 |
| 9 | 9 | 81–90 |
| 10 | 10 | 91–100 |
| 11 | 11 | 101–110 |
| 12 | 12 | 111–120 |
| 13 | 13 | 121–130 |
| 14 | 14 | 131–140 |
| 15 | 15+ | 141+ |
While active, a pressure plate:
- powers adjacent redstone dust, and adjacent redstone comparators or redstone repeaters facing away from the plate
- strongly powers any full solid opaque block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 beneath it
- activates adjacent mechanism components, including above or below, such as pistons, redstone lamps, etc.
For stone and wooden pressure plates, the power level is always 15. For weighted pressure plates, the power level varies depending on the number of entities (see Required Entities for Weighted Pressure Plate Signal Strength Table, right).
The signal strength from a weighted pressure plate does not vary with the type of entity: all entities have the same "weight" (for instance, two mobs produce the same strength as two dropped items). An item stack counts as a single entity, no matter how many items are in the stack. When multiple items of the same type fall on a weighted pressure plate, they may initially be separate item entities and the weighted pressure plate will count them separately, but if they then collapse into a single item stack entity the signal strength from the weighted pressure plate may go down.
Water and lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still 
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 instance, 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 See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | ID Name | Block ID |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Pressure Plate | minecraft:stone_pressure_plate | 70 |
| Wooden Pressure Plate | minecraft:wooden_pressure_plate | 72 |
| Weighted Pressure Plate (Heavy) | minecraft:heavy_weighted_pressure_plate | 148 |
| Weighted Pressure Plate (Light) Pressure Plate Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Others: No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data | minecraft:light_weighted_pressure_plate | 147 |
Block data
- See also: Data values
A pressure plate`s data value specifies whether is it active:
- Stone or wooden pressure plate
| Bits | Values |
|---|---|
| 0x1 | If this bit is set, the pressure plate is active. |
| 0x2 0x4 0x8 | Unused. |
- Weighted pressure plate
| Bits | Values |
|---|---|
| 0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8 | A four-bit field storing a value from 0 to 15 representing the weighted pressure plate`s current redstone power level. |
Block state
- See also: Block states
- Stone or wooden pressure plate
| Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
powered | truefalse | True if pressure plate is depressed, providing power. |
- Weighted pressure plate
| Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
power | 0—15 | Specifies the redstone power level currently being produced by the weighted pressure plate. |
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History
| Alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 |   Added pressure plates. Weighted pressure plates do not exist yet. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| 1.5 | 13w01a |   Added weighted pressure plates. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Rescaled output strength of weighted pressure plates. | |||
| Allowed all entities to trigger weighted pressure plates. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w31a |     Now have a slightly flatter look in the inventory. | |||
| 15w43a | Non-stone pressure plates are given a different, 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 and weighted 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. | |||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Added weighted pressure plates. | ||
Pre-1.7.2 requirements
Before 1.7.2, weighted pressure plates could only be activated by drops, and they required larger quantities.
| Signal strength | Number of entities required | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold plate | Iron plate (blocks) | Iron plate (stacks) | |
| 1 | 1–4 | 1–42 | 1 block–42 blocks |
| 2 | 5–8 | 43–85 | 43 blocks–1 stack 21 blocks |
| 3 | 9–12 | 86–128 | 1 stack 22 blocks–2 stacks |
| 4 | 13–16 | 129–170 | 2 stacks 1 block–2 stacks 42 blocks |
| 5 | 17–20 | 171–213 | 2 stacks 43 blocks–3 stacks 21 blocks |
| 6 | 21–24 | 214–256 | 3 stacks 22 blocks–4 stacks |
| 7 | 25–28 | 257–298 | 4 stacks 1 block–4 stacks 42 blocks |
| 8 | 29–32 | 299–341 | 4 stacks 43 blocks–5 stacks 21 blocks |
| 9 | 33–36 | 342–384 | 5 stacks 22 blocks–6 stacks |
| 10 | 37–40 | 385–426 | 6 stacks 1 block–6 stacks 42 blocks |
| 11 | 41–44 | 427–469 | 6 stacks 43 blocks–7 stacks 21 blocks |
| 12 | 45–48 | 470–512 | 7 stacks 22 blocks–8 stacks |
| 13 | 49–52 | 513–554 | 8 stacks 1 block–8 stacks 42 blocks |
| 14 | 53–56 | 555–597 | 8 stacks 43 blocks–9 stacks 21 blocks |
| 15 | 57+ | 598+ | 9 stacks 22 blocks+ |
Issues
Issues relating to “Pressure Plate” or “Weighted Pressure Plate“ are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.
Crafting
| Pressure Plate(Wooden) | ||
|---|---|---|
| None | None | None |
| None | None | None |
| Wooden Planks | Wooden Planks | None |
| Pressure Plate(Stone) | ||
|---|---|---|
| None | None | None |
| None | None | None |
| Stone | Stone | None |
