Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate

Overview

Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate is a redstone block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Heavy Weighted 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 Iron Ingot.

Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 0.5, Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate takes 0.75 seconds to punch out and 0.1 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

Iron manages 0.15 seconds and diamond 0.1, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.

Nothing here needs a minimum tier: whatever you swing, the block still drops, and the only difference is how long it takes.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 2 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

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 Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate is 0.5, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It lets light pass and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any
Fuel value: 15 s