Display of blocks by entities
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In practice, blocks which are displayed by entities closely resemble how they appear in placed form. However, notable exceptions remain, and how blocks render in such contexts has changed considerably throughout game versions.
Table
Blocks not listed are assumed to work correctly across all five entities.
| Entity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bell is absent[3] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| No | No | No | No | No | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[5] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Book is absent[7] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[8] | No[9] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[8] | No[9] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| No | No[10] | No[11] | No[12] | No[13] | |
| Book is absent[14] | Book is absent[15] | Book is absent[16] | Book is absent[17] | Book is absent[18] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 3] | Yes[note 3] | Yes[note 3] | Yes[note 3] | Entity is absent[19] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[5] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes[note 3] | Yes[note 3] | Yes[note 3] | Yes[note 3] | Entity is absent[20] | |
| Yes[note 4] | Yes[note 4] | Yes[note 4] | Yes[note 4] | Item is absent[21] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] | Items are absent[2] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Yes[note 1] | Text is absent[1] | |
| No | No[10] | No[11] | No[12] | No[13] | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Only wood flashes[4] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Does not flash[6] | No |
Single-block exceptions
red and brown mooshrooms, snow golem pumpkins, iron golem poppies
also copper golem saddle slot and sulfur cube body slot
History
- beds: both halves used to be displayed, then it became one half, then in 26.2 snapshot 3 they finally became proper block models once more. investigate from 1.12's dev to then
- many block entities such as chests used to just not render when held by endermen. or did they? am i misremembering?
- we need to investigate pre-14w25a behaviour thoroughly. did it just create cuboids of the particle texture the size of the targeting hitbox in most cases?
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minecraft Infdev | 20100618 | Added falling block entities, which visually represent blocks in motion. | |||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Added endermen, which pick up blocks, visibly holding them. | |||||
| Unknown | |||||||
| ? | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.5 | 13w02a | Minecart entities can now render any block ID inside of them rather than only furnaces and chests. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w04a | Several blocks now render when held by endermen or when displayed in minecarts. | |||||
| 14w25a | Water and lava no longer render at all when held by endermen[22] or when displayed in minecarts.[23] | ||||||
| ? | Water and lava falling block entities no longer render at all.[24] | ||||||
| ? | Translucent blocks now render as translucent in an entity context rather than being made opaque or cutout. | ||||||
| 1.19.4 | 23w06a | Added block display entities. | |||||
| 1.20.3 | 23w42a | TNT entities can now render as any block ID rather than only as TNT itself. | |||||
| 1.21.4 | 24w45a | Heads now render when held by endermen,[25] as block display entities,[25] in minecarts[verify] and as lit TNT[verify] rather than being invisible as they were previously. | |||||
| 24w46a | Hanging signs now render when held by endermen,[26] as block display entities,[26] in minecarts[verify] and as lit TNT[verify] rather than being invisible as they were previously. | ||||||
| Signs may also have been fixed.[verify] | |||||||
| 26.1 | snap11 | Bells held by endermen, displayed by block display entities, set as TNT's displayed block[verify] or displayed in a minecart[verify] now render the actual bell, rather than just the frame.[27] | |||||
| Pre-Release 1 | End portal and end gateway blocks (i.e. starfield blocks) held by endermen, displayed in minecarts or set as the displayed block of a lit TNT entity or block display entity will now render, rather than being invisible as they were previously.[28] | ||||||
| 26.2 | snap7 | Signs and hanging signs (including wall signs and wall hanging signs) now render as falling block entities. | |||||
Falling block appearances
Until [more information needed], falling blocks associated with blocks which have optional directional connections would render as a cuboid with the block's texture, with the exact shape of the cuboid matching the last block looked at matching the entity's associated block ID.[29]
- Fence-like
| Block | · | One direction | L-shaped | Straight | T-shaped | + | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | E | S | W | NE | ES | SW | NW | NS | EW | ESW | NSW | NEW | NES | |||
- Other
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Single chest
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Large chest, north connection
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Large chest, east connection
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Large chest, south connection
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Large chest, connection connection
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Ender chest
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Heads
Enderman/minecart appearences
From 14w04a to 14w21b certain blocks in minecarts would look quite strange, applying a series of textures to a cuboid model rather than using geometry accurate to the block itself. In 14w25a and 14w25b changes were made such that the block's actual model is used, although in the first of these two snapshots the missing model was used for many of these instead.
Blocks are only listed in this section if their pre-14w25a appearance visually differs from their placed block form.
Notes
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz Block NBT data cannot be specified, so text can never be present
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh Block NBT data cannot be specified, so items can never be present
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Block NBT data cannot be specified, so target entity can never be present
- ↑ a b c d Block NBT data cannot be specified, so prize items can never be present
References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba MC-308632
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l MC-309011
- ↑ MC-308628
- ↑ a b MC-309015
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n MC-308382
- ↑ MC-308629
- ↑ a b MC-308380
- ↑ a b MC-308379
- ↑ a b MC-308992
- ↑ a b MC-308993
- ↑ a b MC-308996
- ↑ a b MC-308990
- ↑ MC-308643
- ↑ MC-308640
- ↑ MC-308642
- ↑ MC-308641
- ↑ MC-308644
- ↑ MC-308638
- ↑ MC-309012
- ↑ MC-309505
- ↑ MC-308992
- ↑ MC-308993
- ↑ MC-308990
- ↑ a b MC-193336
- ↑ a b MC-256649
- ↑ MC-199975
- ↑ MC-195237
- ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=c_aaEIxbzMY
Navigation
Sources
- Display of blocks by entities — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3686301.