Potato Pressure Plate

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Potato Pressure Plate

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Note block instrument	Bass

A potato pressure plate is a variant of a pressure plate made of potato planks, exclusive to 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

Block	Potato Pressure Plate
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Wooden	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Stone	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Iron	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Diamond	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Netherite	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Golden	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Potato pressure plates can generate naturally as part of potato villages.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Potato Planks

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Potato Pressure Plate	Ruined Portatol	Chest	1	8.2% { "item": "Potato Pressure Plate", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08184583362492948, "structure": "Ruined Portatol", "container": "Chest" }

Usage

For information about all wooden pressure plates, see Wooden Pressure Plate § Usage.

Sounds

Generic

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.

Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.

nether_wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.nether_wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.72	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.nether_wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.72	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.nether_wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.45	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.nether_wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.nether_wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Unique

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Block tags	Translation key
Potato Pressure Plate	potato_pressure_plate	wooden_pressure_plates pressure_plates wall_post_override mineable/axe	block.minecraft.potato_pressure_plate

Block states