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Cherry Pressure Plate in Minecraft | MinecraftBible
Cherry Pressure Plate is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4, dropping Cherry Pressure Plate.
What is Cherry Pressure Plate?
Cherry Pressure Plate is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/axe material group. It has a hardness of 0.5 and a blast resistance of 0.5. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a transparent block, meaning it doesn't fully block light or vision. Cherry Pressure Plate does not emit light. Cherry Pressure Plate filters 0 levels of light passing through it, even though it is technically transparent.
Namespaced identifier: minecraft:cherry_pressure_plate. Command: /give @p minecraft:cherry_pressure_plate 1.
How to mine Cherry Pressure Plate
Cherry Pressure Plate can be broken with any tool, or even by hand.
Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):
- With the correct tool: approximately 0.75 seconds
- By hand (no tool): approximately 2.5 seconds
Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.
Cherry Pressure Plate drops
When broken, Cherry Pressure Plate drops:
Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.
Block tags & properties
- Transparent
- Hand-Mineable
- Craftable
Cherry Pressure Plate technical properties
- Waterloggable: Yes
- Flammable: No
- Burns from lava: Yes
- Renewable: Yes
- Emits light: No (luminance 0)
- Map color: Varies
Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Wooden Pressure Plate (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.
Technical properties
- Namespaced ID: minecraft:cherry_pressure_plate
- Material family: mineable/axe
- Hardness: 0.5
- Blast resistance: 0.5
- Stack size: 64
- Transparent: Yes
- Blocks light: 0
- Emits light: 0
- Diggable: Yes
- Craftable: Yes
- /give command: /give @p minecraft:cherry_pressure_plate 1
Overview
Cherry Pressure Plate is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.
Step-by-step walkthrough
- Cherry Pressure Plate can be broken by hand or with any tool, though using a tool is usually faster.
- With the correct tool this takes about 0.75s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 2.5s.
- Cherry Pressure Plate is transparent, so light passes through and adjacent blocks won't be shaded by it.
Pro tips
- Use /give @p minecraft:cherry_pressure_plate 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
- No special tool is required, so hand-mining is a valid fallback in an emergency.
Difficulty and time commitment
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated time per run: 1-5 min
Frequently Asked Questions
What tool do I need to mine Cherry Pressure Plate?
Cherry Pressure Plate can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.
What does Cherry Pressure Plate drop when mined?
Breaking Cherry Pressure Plate drops Cherry Pressure Plate.
How hard is Cherry Pressure Plate to mine?
Cherry Pressure Plate has a hardness value of 0.5. That works out to roughly 0.75s with the correct tool or 2.5s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).
Can I craft Cherry Pressure Plate?
Yes - this page lists 2 known crafting recipes for Cherry Pressure Plate.
What is the internal Minecraft ID for Cherry Pressure Plate?
The namespaced ID is minecraft:cherry_pressure_plate, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.