block
Stone Pressure Plate in Minecraft | MinecraftBible
Stone Pressure Plate is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4, dropping Stone Pressure Plate.
What is Stone Pressure Plate?
Stone Pressure Plate is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe 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. Stone Pressure Plate does not emit light. Stone Pressure Plate filters 0 levels of light passing through it, even though it is technically transparent.
Namespaced identifier: minecraft:stone_pressure_plate. Command: /give @p minecraft:stone_pressure_plate 1.
How to mine Stone Pressure Plate
Stone 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×.
Stone Pressure Plate drops
When broken, Stone Pressure Plate drops:
Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.
What Stone Pressure Plate is used to craft
Stone Pressure Plate appears as an ingredient in 1 known Minecraft recipes:
Block tags & properties
- Transparent
- Hand-Mineable
- Craftable
- Crafting Material
Stone Pressure Plate technical properties
- Waterloggable: Yes
- Flammable: No
- Burns from lava: No
- Renewable: Yes
- Emits light: No (luminance 0)
Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Stone Pressure Plate (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.
Technical properties
- Namespaced ID: minecraft:stone_pressure_plate
- Material family: mineable/pickaxe
- 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:stone_pressure_plate 1
Overview
Stone 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
- Stone 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.
- Stone Pressure Plate is transparent, so light passes through and adjacent blocks won't be shaded by it.
Pro tips
- Use /give @p minecraft:stone_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 Stone Pressure Plate?
Stone Pressure Plate can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.
What does Stone Pressure Plate drop when mined?
Breaking Stone Pressure Plate drops Stone Pressure Plate.
How hard is Stone Pressure Plate to mine?
Stone 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 Stone Pressure Plate?
Yes - this page lists 1 known crafting recipe for Stone Pressure Plate.
What is Stone Pressure Plate used to craft?
Stone Pressure Plate is used as an ingredient in 1 other recipe.
What is the internal Minecraft ID for Stone Pressure Plate?
The namespaced ID is minecraft:stone_pressure_plate, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.