Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate

Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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A polished blackstone pressure plate is a polished blackstone variant of the pressure plate that can detect only players and mobs.

Obtaining

Breaking

A polished blackstone pressure plate can be mined with anything, but pickaxes are the fastest. A polished blackstone pressure plate also breaks and drops itself if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if the block under the pressure plate is moved or destroyed.

Block	Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Polished Blackstone

Usage

A polished blackstone pressure plate has equivalent functionality as a stone pressure plate, except for the lack of functionality as a crafting ingredient.

Placement

A polished blackstone pressure plate can only be placed on the top of other blocks with either a full solid block face, a solid center, or a solid rim.

Redstone component

A polished blackstone pressure plate can be used to detect entities on top of it (players, mobs, and armor stands).

Activation

A polished blackstone pressure plate is activated only by players, mobs, and armor stands, unlike wooden pressure plates.

Once activated, a pressure plate checks if entities are still present at regular intervals. Polished blackstone pressure plates check every 10 redstone ticks, starting 10 redstone ticks after activation, so they deactivate up to 10 redstone ticks (20 game ticks or 1 second, barring lag) after no entities are on top of them.

Polished blackstone pressure plates are activated by minecarts only if the minecart contains a mob or player.

Behavior

For polished blackstone pressure plates, the power level is always 15.

Note blocks

Polished blackstone pressure plates can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e stone sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Pressure Plate clicks	Blocks	When a polished blackstone pressure plate is deactivated	block.stone_pressure_plate.click_off	subtitles.block.pressure_plate.click​	0.3	0.5	16
	​Pressure Plate clicks	Blocks	When a polished blackstone pressure plate is activated	block.stone_pressure_plate.click_on	subtitles.block.pressure_plate.click​	0.3	0.6	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a polished blackstone pressure plate deactivates	click_off.stone_pressure_plate	0.3	0.5
	Blocks	When a polished blackstone pressure plate activates	click_on.stone_pressure_plate	0.3	0.6

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate	polished_blackstone_pressure_plate	Block & Item	pressure_plates stone_pressure_plates wall_post_override	None	block.minecraft.polished_blackstone_pressure_plate

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate	polished_blackstone_pressure_plate	550	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.polished_blackstone_pressure_plate.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
powered	false	false true	True if pressure plate is depressed, providing power.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
redstone_signal	0x1	0	0 1	0 1	Specifies whether the pressure plate is pressed.
			2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Unsupported	Unused

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.16			20w15a				Added polished blackstone pressure plate.
1.16.2			20w28a				Polished blackstone pressure plates are now renewable as piglins have an 8.71% chance to give 8-16 blackstone during bartering.
1.21.4			24w44a				Now drop when broken with any tool.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Added polished blackstone pressure plate.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Polished blackstone pressure plates no longer require a pickaxe to drop themselves, and are mined faster when using an improper tool.

Issues

Issues relating to "Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• "Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate" is the current longest name for a block tied with "Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks" (34 characters with spaces, 31 without)
  • It briefly lost its place between Java Edition 1.17 snapshots 20w45a and 21w05a, where it was surpassed by variants of the copper block:
    • Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs (41 characters with spaces, 36 without in first place)
    • Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Slab (39 characters with spaces, 34 without in second place)
    • Waxed Semi-Weathered Cut Copper Stairs (38 characters with spaces, 34 without in third place)
    • Waxed Semi-Weathered Cut Copper Slab (36 characters with spaces, 32 without in fourth place)
  • The record holders in the Minecraft Education are "Hardened Light Blue Stained Glass Pane" and "Hardened Light Gray Stained Glass Pane" (both at 38 with spaces, 33 without).