Minecraft crafting guide

How to craft Light Weighted Pressure Plate in Minecraft

To craft a light weighted pressure plate in Minecraft, place 2× Gold Ingot in the exact pattern using either your inventory grid or a crafting table to craft 1 light weighted pressure plate

Light Weighted Pressure Plate crafting recipe

Produces 1× Light Weighted Pressure Plate.

Gold Ingot
Gold Ingot
minecraft:light_weighted_pressure_plate
  • This is a shaped recipe, meaning the items must be placed in this specific arrangement on the grid.
  • Light Weighted Pressure Plate can be crafted directly in your inventory or in a crafting table.

About the Light Weighted Pressure Plate

The Light Weighted Pressure Plate is a redstone input block that measures how many entities are on it. Unlike a normal pressure plate, it does not just give a simple on or off signal. It gives a variable signal strength, so redstone builds can measure how much is on the plate.

Key facts:

  • Each entity on the plate adds one redstone signal level.
  • The maximum signal strength is 15.
  • It can count mobs, players, and dropped items.

This makes it useful as a simple counter in farms, storage systems, and puzzle maps.

How to get the Light Weighted Pressure Plate

You can only get this plate by crafting it. Place two gold ingots side by side in the crafting grid to make one. It does not generate naturally in structures and is not sold by villagers, so mining gold and crafting is the reliable route.

Materials needed

Ingredient amounts for one craft, producing 1× Light Weighted Pressure Plate.

Materials required for one craft
MaterialPer craftAccepted items
2Exact item

Quantity table

Crafts are rounded up when a recipe produces more than one item.

Ingredient quantities for common target amounts
WantedCraftsProducedGold Ingot
1112
16161632
32323264
646464128

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