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Pressure Plates
Secret pressure plates are not thin plates lying on the floor. Each one is a full, solid block that you build into a floor as one of its tiles. It takes the look of the block you place it against, so it matches the tiles around it (see How disguises work). Anything standing on its top face presses it.
There are four:
- Secret Pressure Plate: pressed by anything.
- Secret Player Pressure Plate: pressed by players only.
- Secret Light Weighted Pressure Plate and Secret Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate: the signal grows with the number of things on it.
| As you see it | Through the Builder's Goggles |
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- Dig out one floor block and place the plate in the hole by clicking one of the floor blocks beside it. It copies the look of the block you click.
- It is solid. You walk on it like any floor.
- Things press it by standing on its top face. The whole top face counts, edge to edge.
- Arrows and tridents that stick in it do not press it.
- It keeps its disguise while pressed. Nothing on the outside moves.
- It gives weak power only. A lamp, piston or door next to it, or directly under it, turns on. The block under it is not powered, so things next to that block stay off.
- It is not a redstone conductor. A repeater pointing into it does not power the blocks around it, and a comparator cannot read a container through it.
- A piston breaks it and it drops as an item, as a piston does to a vanilla plate.
- It sounds, mines and stands up to explosions like the block it looks like, and it always drops itself when mined. Footsteps on it sound like its top. See How disguises work.
| As you see it | Through the Builder's Goggles |
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Shapeless, on a crafting table or in your inventory grid (see Crafting):
| Ingredients | Result |
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| 1 Dummy Block + 1 wooden pressure plate (any wood) | 1 Secret Pressure Plate |
- Anything standing on it presses it: players, mobs and dropped items.
- Sneaking players press it too.
- While pressed it gives a signal of 15.
- It releases within about a second (20 ticks) after the last thing steps off.
- It makes the stone pressure plate click when pressed and released.
- It is a full, disguised block built into the floor, not a thin plate on top of it.
- Things count anywhere on its top face. A vanilla plate counts only things over its middle, 1/8 of a block in from each edge.
- Arrows and tridents do not press it. They press a vanilla wooden plate.
- It makes the stone plate click, not the wooden plate click.
- It gives weak power only. A vanilla plate also strongly powers the block under it.
- It sounds and mines like its disguise.
| Ingredients | Result |
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| 1 Dummy Block + 1 stone pressure plate or polished blackstone pressure plate | 1 Secret Player Pressure Plate |
A polished blackstone pressure plate is a stone pressure plate with another look, so it makes the same secret plate.
- Only players press it, sneaking or not. Mobs and dropped items do nothing.
- Otherwise it works like the Secret Pressure Plate: a signal of 15, released within about a second, the stone plate click.
- Vanilla has no players-only plate. Compared with the vanilla stone pressure plate, which mobs also press:
- only players press it;
- it is a full, disguised block built into the floor;
- things count anywhere on its top face;
- it gives weak power only;
- it sounds and mines like its disguise.
The signal depends on how many things are standing on the plate, as with vanilla's gold and iron weighted plates.
| Ingredients | Result |
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| 1 Dummy Block + 1 light weighted pressure plate | 1 Secret Light Weighted Pressure Plate |
| 1 Dummy Block + 1 heavy weighted pressure plate | 1 Secret Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate |
- Everything on it counts, one each: players, mobs and dropped items. A dropped stack counts as one, however many items it holds. Spectators do not count.
- Light: the signal is the number of things on it, up to 15.
- Heavy: the signal is the number of things divided by ten, rounded up, up to 15.
| Things on the plate | Light signal | Heavy signal |
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| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 | 2 |
| 20 | 15 | 2 |
| 150 | 15 | 15 |
- It counts again every half second (10 ticks) while pressed, so the signal follows things arriving and leaving.
- It releases within about half a second after everything leaves.
- It makes the metal pressure plate click when pressed and released.
- It is a full, disguised block built into the floor, not a thin plate on top of it.
- Things count anywhere on its top face. A vanilla weighted plate counts only things over its middle, 1/8 of a block in from each edge.
- Arrows and tridents do not press it. They count on a vanilla weighted plate.
- It gives weak power only. A vanilla weighted plate also strongly powers the block under it.
- It sounds and mines like its disguise, and drops itself without a pickaxe.
- The signal strengths, the timing and the sounds are vanilla's.
- Redstone dust next to a secret plate connects to it, just as it connects to a vanilla plate. Run your wiring under the floor, or use Secret Redstone, so the dust does not point at the plate.
- A lamp or other component directly under the plate turns on, so you can wire it from below.
- The Builder's Goggles show each secret plate as the vanilla plate inside.
- The Camouflage Wand turns a vanilla pressure plate into its secret version and back.