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Oak Pressure Plate

A wooden pressure plate that emits a redstone signal when stepped on by a player or mob, or when an item lands on it.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Redstone

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

wooden_pressure_plate

Oak Pressure Plate at a glance

Redstone holds Oak Pressure Plate: a redstone component out of crafting. A slot of Oak Pressure Plate holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

As a redstone component, Oak Pressure Plate is wired into contraptions and circuits, and what it does with a signal is what gives builders the logic and timing behind automatic farms, doors and machines. It sits between Note Block and Observer in Redstone, number 13 of 29 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Oak PlanksOak Planks
Oak PlanksOak Planks
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Oak Pressure Plate has the grid for Oak Pressure Plate

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Wooden pressure plates also detect dropped items, unlike stone pressure plates. As a wooden block it can be used as furnace fuel. The vanilla registry id for this variant is oak_pressure_plate.

Frequently asked questions about Oak Pressure Plate

  1. Oak Planks going into Oak Pressure Plate, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Oak Pressure Plate in Minecraft?

    Oak Pressure Plate is crafted from Oak Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. Oak Pressure Plate coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Oak Pressure Plate added to Minecraft?

    Oak Pressure Plate was added in the early Alpha development period.

  3. Oak Pressure Plate on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Oak Pressure Plate used for?

    A wooden pressure plate that emits a redstone signal when stepped on by a player or mob, or when an item lands on it.

  4. 64 Oak Pressure Plate drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Oak Pressure Plate can you stack?

    64 Oak Pressure Plate fill one slot, and filling it costs 128 Oak Planks: 64 crafts. A shulker box of Oak Pressure Plate comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Building with it

Two planks make a wooden pressure plate, and unlike the stone one it reacts to anything: players, mobs and dropped items alike. That sensitivity makes it the classic item detector, since an arrow shot onto one will trigger a circuit from a distance.

In practice

A wooden plate reacts to anything at all, including a dropped item or an arrow, which turns it into the cheapest item detector in the game. That sensitivity is also why one in a mob farm fires constantly, so most builds put it somewhere nothing can wander.