Minecraft:Wooden Pressure Plate

Template:Infobox block A wooden pressure plate is a wooden variant of the Minecraft:pressure plate. It can detect all entities, producing the maximum signal strength of 15. Wooden pressure plates come in all variants of wood.

Obtaining

Breaking

A wooden pressure plate can be mined using any tool, or without a tool, and drops itself as an item. However, Minecraft:axes are the fastest way to break one.

A pressure plate is removed and drops itself as an item if:

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

Natural generation

Oak pressure plates can generate in some Minecraft:plains village houses and in Minecraft:trial chambers (some Minecraft:dispenser traps and a hidden chamber in the "Intersection 2" room).

Acacia pressure plates can generate in some Minecraft:savanna Minecraft:village houses.

Spruce pressure plates can generate in some Minecraft:snowy tundra, Minecraft:taiga, and Minecraft:snowy taiga Minecraft:village houses.

Usage

Redstone component

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.

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Pressure plates on fences.

To place a pressure plate, Template:Control 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 Minecraft:opaque block (stone, dirt, blocks of gold, etc.), including full-block mechanism components (Minecraft:command blocks, Minecraft:dispensers, Minecraft:droppers, Minecraft:note blocks, and Minecraft:redstone lamps)
• the top of a Minecraft:hopper, Minecraft:fence, Minecraft:nether brick fence, an upside-down Minecraft:slab, or upside-down Minecraft: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 causes the plate to be attached to the top of the ground next to the fence instead.

More information regarding placement on transparent blocks can be found at Minecraft:Opacity/Placement.

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), with a minimum activation time of Template:Convert.

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

Once activated, a pressure plate checks if entities are still present at regular intervals. Wooden pressure plates check every Template:Convert, starting 10 redstone ticks after activation, so they deactivate up to 10 redstone ticks after no entities are on top of them.

A Minecraft:minecart traveling on Minecraft:rails activates a pressure plate next to a diagonal track but not one next to a straight track.

Behavior

While active, a pressure plate:

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

The power level is always 15.

Minecraft:Water and Minecraft:lava 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 (Template:Frac of a block) when inactive and 0.03125 blocks high (Template:Frac of a block) when active, but because they are not solid they do not affect the position of entities "on top" of them, so a player on top of a pressure plate is actually standing on the block beneath it.

Pressure plates can also open Minecraft:doors, activate Minecraft:TNT, and power Minecraft:command blocks.

Fuel

Overworld wooden pressure plates can be used as a Minecraft:fuel in Minecraft:furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per pressure plate. Nether wood pressure plates (crimson and warped), cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.

Note blocks

Wooden pressure plates can be placed under Minecraft:note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

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Block states

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