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Pressure plates and trapdoors are way too expensive.

Two wooden planks crafts just 1 pressure plate, which is about 1 pixel high. Where does the rest of the wood go? I would like it if the recipe changed, providing 4, 5, or 6 pressure plates. It doesn't have to be too many to be annoying, but more than 1 would be nice. 

Trapdoors have the same problem. 6 planks crafts only 2 trapdoors, which has the same problems as outlined above. Trapdoors are a much loved block, every since the new wood types were introduced, and it would be nice to not have to chop down an entire tree for like 4 trapdoors.

Thank you so much if this gets implemented! I really think it would change the game in a small, but necessary way. 

P.S This is the case for Java edition, I'm not sure for Bedrock. 

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    I heftily agree. If we consider how much material goes into making a pressure plate, I think four pressure plates per crafting would be a very conservative amount for the material put into it.

    Also, since making normal doors yield three per crafting, that's a 2:1 conversion of material to door, which makes sense, since doors are two blocks tall and all. However, since trapdoors are only one block in width/height, either the conversion should be 1:1 or at least the same as normal doors, meaning either a 6 or 3 yield for trapdoors per crafting, given the same crafting recipe.

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    I totally agree. If 6 planks makes 3 doors, and trapdoors are half the size of doors, shouldn't 6 planks make 6 trapdoors?

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    100% agree on all suggestions and reasoning. Trap doors should yield 4-6, plates could easily be 16 with respect to the wooden and stone variants. 2 planks have the same volume as 32 stone or wood plates. Some loss has always made sense to me, but it seems to always catch me by surprise in a new world just how much have to collect to get the amount of what I want - particularly trap doors in my experience.

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    Its the same for bedrock

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    I totally agree. If you want to make a slab, they make sure you get two slabs for each block, which makes a lot of sense. But pressure plates require TWO BLOCKS to make one pressure plate, which is less than half the size of a slab, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I think four or six pressure plates for one crafting would be a reasonable amount. 

    For trapdoors, the same problem exists. Trapdoors are really expensive. For the same amount of wood require to make a door, you get one less trapdoor than you would a regular door when a trapdoor is half the size. If they keep the crafting recipe the same I feel like six trapdoors would be the right amount for each time you craft it.

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    So, I did some research (by which I mean I placed a plank next to a pressure plate and compared the two) and a single Minecraft block is exactly 16 pixels tall. A pressure place is exactly one pixel tall, and isn't even a full block around.

    One wooden plank is equal to 16 pressure plates, and yet it takes two just to make one. As you said, we don't want it to be too many to be annoying, so I won't ask that we get 32 pressure plates for two blocks, but we should get 16 at least.

     

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    In my mods, new wood types give 6 trapdoors instead of 2, pressure plates and buttons will give 4, stairs will always give 8 stairs regardless of material, walls give 2 walls per block in crafting or stone cutting and trapdoors for metal give 1 per ingot.

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    The trapdoor recipe has always bugged me to an immense degree, especially in relation to slabs; it takes 6 wood planks to make 2 three pixel tall blocks, where as slabs need 3 to make 6 eight pixel tall blocks, it doesn't make sense at all that you can make 12 slabs with the same amount it takes to make 2 trapdoors.

    I would give anything for this inconsistency to be fixed, its so annoying whenever i try to build