Light Weighted Pressure Plate

Overview

Light Weighted Pressure Plate counts as a redstone block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Light 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 Gold Ingot.

Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

Light Weighted Pressure Plate has a hardness of 0.5. By hand that is 0.75 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.1 seconds.

You are looking at 0.15 seconds on iron and 0.1 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2 times the unenchanted rate.

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 Light Weighted 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. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the 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