Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate

Overview

Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate is made at a crafting table. A hardness of 0.5 means it is one of the quicker blocks to clear.

No specific tool is required to collect it. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Because it is transparent it does not block light.

A blast resistance of 0.5 means a single creeper will clear it away. It stacks to 64. You make it with Polished Blackstone.

No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate sits at hardness 0.5: 0.75 seconds per block with your fists, 0.1 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron takes 0.15 seconds against diamond's 0.1, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to diamond.

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.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 2 times faster than an unenchanted one.

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

With 0.5 blast resistance Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate goes down to any nearby explosion. It is transparent to light and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any