Pressure plates are devices that help us detect the presence of any animal, mobs or players by standing on top of them, if you want to know How to do Pressure Plates en Minecraft? Continue reading and find out how!
Technically, the pressure plates serve a similar function to that of a switch, sending Redstone signals by applying pressure when someone is perched on them. The signal emitted by their pressure plates has a range of up to 15 blocks away. Impressive, right?
Making Pressure Plates in Minecraft
To make a wooden pressure plate (the most common), you only need to have two Wooden Planks, then place them on the Workbench, in which crafting them will obtain the pressure plate. This same procedure is implemented for the other types of pressure plates, the difference lies in the material that we will use. In the case of iron and gold pressure plates, the two wooden planks are exchanged for two iron ingots or two gold ingots respectively.
Types of Pressure Plates
The types of pressure plates differ mainly in their construction materials and their functionality:
- Stone Pressure Plates: They can only be activated by standing on top of it.
- Wood plates: They are activated if someone stands on top of it and also when being hit by arrows and even throwing objects at them.
- Iron pressure plates: They are activated by having a certain amount of heavy weight on them.
- Gold Pressure Plates: They are activated by having a certain amount of light weights on top of them.
With this we can now create as many pressure plates as we want or need in our future constructions.
I hope it has been helpful!