Overview
Birch Pressure Plate is one of the 13 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Oak Pressure Plate is the same shape in a different material.
Birch Pressure Plate counts as a redstone block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Birch Pressure Plate. It breaks almost instantly, with a hardness of just 0.5.
You can break it by hand without losing the drop. It drops as the same block you mined. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it.
It offers almost no protection from explosions (0.5 blast resistance). A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Birch Planks.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the birch set
How long it takes to break
Birch Pressure Plate sits at hardness 0.5: 0.75 seconds per block with your fists, 0.1 with the correct netherite tool.
You are looking at 0.15 seconds on iron and 0.1 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.
There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 0.75 s | 0.75 s | 0.75 s |
| Wooden | 0.4 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Stone | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Iron | 0.15 s | instant | instant |
| Diamond | 0.1 s | instant | instant |
| Netherite | 0.1 s | instant | instant |
| Golden | 0.1 s | instant | instant |
Properties
Blast resistance on Birch Pressure Plate is 0.5, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It lets light pass and gives off no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The fastest tool for it is an axe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Birch Pressure Plate
Drops
Mined with any, Birch Pressure Plate drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Birch Pressure Plate in Minecraft?
Birch Pressure Plate is crafted from Birch Planks.
What tool do you need to break Birch Pressure Plate?
No specific tool is required — Birch Pressure Plate can be broken by hand.
Is Birch Pressure Plate blast resistant?
Birch Pressure Plate has a blast resistance of 0.5, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Birch Pressure Plate fit in one stack?
Birch Pressure Plate stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
How long does Birch Pressure Plate take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.1 seconds. Bare hands take 0.75.
The rest of the set
Birch Pressure Plate is one of 13 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
