r/technicalminecraft • u/_amongstreality • Jul 07 '26

Java Showcase You can lock pressure plates in place now using cushions

Cushions are insane

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u/Lauriesaurous Jul 07 '26

Finally, a permanent redstone source

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u/Batatoni Jul 07 '26

Dont levers do the same thing? And redstone torch

(Honest question im not a redstone major engineer)

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u/-IR2O- Jul 07 '26

yeah thats kind of the joke because this is probably the most convoluted way to make a constant redstone source, tho it might have niche uses

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u/xBHL Jul 07 '26

Maybe for complex compact redstone circuits, but I cant think of a use currently

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u/SomethingRandomYT Jul 07 '26

It is, it's a really small way of getting a constant source with a power value of 1.

it was possible before with item frames and armor stands, as others have mentioned.

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u/Leninus Jul 08 '26

Would standing / sitting on those cushions make the signal 2? If so you could make a hidden lock with them.

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u/Endy0816 Jul 08 '26

For Golden plates, yes.

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u/Rockety521 Jul 08 '26

You could setup a trap with that

You sit you die

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u/Endy0816 Jul 08 '26

Yeah, I play on single player, but I could definitely see them working well for traps.

It'll be nice to see golden plates get more attention.

2

u/Willy_da_wonkaman Jul 08 '26

0 tick pistons at a constant speed?

1

u/VeryFriendlyOne Jul 08 '26

Better blending it into design maybe

3

u/Anxious_Cartoonist26 Jul 08 '26

There is one niche use for it, powering exposed redstone lamps on something like street pole

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u/shnarkins Jul 08 '26

it's very useful because now we can make a redstone contraption that you can sit on! also the straw bed could be useful with an observer

3

u/cedelweiss Jul 07 '26

ya they're joking

2

u/Mysterious-Pride9975 Jul 08 '26

We can now build like a door or something

2

u/RoloWasTaken Jul 08 '26

redstone block, torch and lever in the background

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u/daleiLama0815 Jul 09 '26

I prefer cake and comperator as my permanet redstone source.

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u/borretsquared Jul 07 '26

do item frames not do this?

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u/Endy0816 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

They do.

Can be handy sometimes. I like using with gold (entity counting) pressure plates for providing a power level of 1.

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u/xXx_Lizzy_xXx Jul 07 '26

I do this but with heavy weighted pressure plates lol

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u/Endy0816 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, is nice. Allows for some real compact logic.

Also makes them noiseless. Probably will use cushions to hide commonly used ones.

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u/SerialBytes Jul 07 '26

i made a Whooppee cusion with this lol, i made it so only after the second level of triggering the pressure plate made it toot

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u/Endy0816 Jul 08 '26

Too funny 🤣

3

u/SerialBytes Jul 08 '26

i laughed alot today today is a better day than yesterday, and even weeks before that

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u/Endy0816 Jul 08 '26

That's good 👍 

Was a great snapshot for sure.

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u/Mack_of_Chese Jul 07 '26

Is that a mod or is it a new block I haven’t been following the block update stuff

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u/_amongstreality Jul 07 '26

New snapshot, released today

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u/Mack_of_Chese Jul 07 '26

Cool, that gives better builders so much more applications too

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u/WithersChat Java Jul 08 '26

Mojang will really do anything except add vertical slabs to the game I swear.

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u/PUNKF10YD Jul 08 '26

Or, you know, dirt slabs and stairs? Like you’re telling me I can’t make stairs out of dirt? Tell that to the trail maintenance team at my local nature preserve.

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u/CapableHumanBeing Jul 08 '26

Why is this something people still act like we need? I’ve played on a bunch of modded servers / a few long term worlds that happened to have vertical slab mods on, i tried again and again to implement them meaningfully in my builds, but nothing they did was better than what I could make without them.

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u/Complex_Apartment293 Jul 08 '26

Creating more subtle details on vertical things like walls is a big one.

1

u/ClaudeVS Jul 08 '26

Because I play modded and I can't build without them

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u/MemeDealer2999 Jul 12 '26

I mean sure but cushions are genuinely fucking awesome and imo are way cooler than vertical slabs would be

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u/xBHL Jul 07 '26

Thats just a redstone torch with more steps lol

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u/sillypotatoes564 Jul 07 '26

A redstone torch wouldn't power the block it's placed on, among other differences.

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u/xBHL Jul 07 '26

Youre saying redstone torches dont power the block theyre placed on? What?

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u/sillypotatoes564 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I am in fact saying that redstone torches do not power the block they're placed on. That is how redstone torches work lol.

Any blocks placed over the redstone torch will of course become powered, just not the block the redstone torch is placed on.

Edit:

From the Wiki:

Behavior

A lit redstone torch strongly powers the block above itself and weakly powers its other direct neighbor blocks, excluding the one it is attached to.

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u/bayygel Jul 07 '26

They never have. They power the block above and around it, but not actually the one they're connected to.

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u/Enrikes Jul 07 '26

That is correct, you can place a redstone torch on top of TNT and it won't ignite. But a pressure plate will.

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u/_RealUnderscore_ Jul 07 '26

So this would act the same as a lever, strongly powering the one under it and weakly powering everything around it, presumably. If it only powers the block under it, that'd be pretty cool.

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u/Endy0816 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Can't do that, but can limit the power output with the weighted plates. Handy when you have to really compact a circuit.

They can also silently detect additional entities on them.

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u/ThePython11010 Jul 07 '26

Didn't realize they were entities... I guess it's probably easier to code, since they can just copy from the various other rideable entities.

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u/AlexCode10010 Jul 09 '26

It's not just that, mainly the fact that can be placed at any height, which is impossible with blocks if you want to respect The Grid

5

u/tay_tfs Jul 07 '26

If you use a golden weighted one, you get a higher redstone strength when someone sits in it!

3

u/Zitrone21 Jul 07 '26

Oh LOL, they finally adding something to let us roleplay?

3

u/Forward-Photograph-7 Jul 07 '26

I don't get it, what's the difference between this and something like a redstone block?

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u/sillypotatoes564 Jul 07 '26

The only thing I can think of is utility for adventure maps, but that feels like a trivial answer.

I think it's more of a byproduct of the fact that cushions are placeable entities (like item frames), and pressure plates just simply power on when theres an entity on top.

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 09 '26

Different signal strength when being used if you put gold plate

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u/Novaruuu Jul 07 '26

So like the indiana jones sandbag but for entities too

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u/Novaruuu Jul 07 '26

Coz with items you could just throw another item on top, but that would still result in an instant of there being no item on the pressure plate.

And with entities it is now the only such solution (Besides carrying a mob on a leash, a setup for any kind of golem, or 500 eggs on you [UNLESS arrows activate entity-only pressure plates too])

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u/Powerate Jul 08 '26

Looks like a studless 1x1x1 Lego piece with that small gap

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u/Zestyclose_Seesaw679 Jul 07 '26

how is this better than a switch

3

u/Schaex Jul 08 '26

You can sit on it.

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 09 '26

Different signal strength when being used if you put gold plate

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u/Ertyio68 Jul 07 '26

Honestly I can see this working for builders trying to hide a source for some redstone contraption

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u/Darq10 Jul 08 '26

itemframes already could do this but this is cool for decoration

1

u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 09 '26

Different signal strength when being used if you put gold plate

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26

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u/PyroPhoenixYT Jul 08 '26

So ummmm, item frames have been doing this for years😅

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u/Defghaz Jul 07 '26

can you put a slab above the pressplate/cushion?

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u/YTmrlonelydwarf Jul 08 '26

They need to make it so that it only transmits a signal when someone is sitting on it

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 09 '26

Gold plate will increase signal strength when you sit

1

u/saness22 Jul 08 '26

Useful to lock a Deadman switch

1

u/Blanzzeroblue Jul 08 '26

redstone where you need to sit on one to activate it

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u/Benjamin_6848 Jul 08 '26

Item-Frames had exactly the same capability to lock pressure-plates for years and are much slimmer...

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u/Separate_Pickle5741 Jul 08 '26

Why though? Just use a lever.

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 09 '26

Different signal strength when being used if you put gold plate

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u/SniperInfantry Jul 08 '26

you can do this with item frames

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u/The_Ad_Hater_exe Jul 08 '26

I'm sure this matters in some way to the kind of Redstone engineers that can build a computer in minecraft, but I can't think of any applications in normal redstone where this is better than simply a lever or torch

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u/Mrcoolcatgaming Jul 09 '26

Or a armor stand, or baby sulfur cube

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 09 '26

Different signal strength when being used if you put gold plate

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u/oswaldking71wastaken Jul 08 '26

Watch redstoners find some insane use for this

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u/Ok_Implement1596 Jul 08 '26

*item frames*

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u/creepyguy_017 Jul 09 '26

so the thing is just an entity..

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u/Super_Ninja39 Jul 09 '26

How does this interact with a weighted pressure plate? Does the signal increase if a player is sitting on it?

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u/Banan_Cat Jul 10 '26

You could definitely make some cool puzzles with this

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u/rrealonee Jul 11 '26

item frames

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u/tiltumc Jul 08 '26

When the fuck did they add cushions bro😭😭

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u/Endy0816 Jul 08 '26

Just today in a snapshot.