Java Edition history of textures/Blocks

This article needs to be updated.

 

Please update this article to reflect recent updates or newly available information. The talk page may contain suggestions.

This page attempts to document the full history of the textures of blocks, their additions, changes, and removals. Additions and changes made to the models of blocks and any new blocks that reuse prior textures will not be documented here. Texture files that are completely identical to other texture files will also be largely ignored for the time being.

This section is missing information about:

• All textures added in 1.20.4 onwards

 

Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page.

Java Edition pre-Classic
Cave game tech test							Added the textures for grass blocks and stone.
rd-20090515							Added the textures for cobblestone, dirt and planks, and a unique side texture for the grass block.
							Changed textures of grass block and stone.
rd-161348							Added the texture for sapling.
							Changed the planks texture.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.12a							Added textures for bedrock, water and lava. The water and lava textures would be used until 0.0.19a, at which point they would be used as placeholder textures (see placeholder textures section).
0.0.13a							Changed textures of lava and oak saplings.
0.0.14a							Added textures for coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, sand, gravel, the sides and top/bottom of logs, and leaves.
							Changed the textures of cobblestone and planks.
0.0.15a (Multiplayer Test 1)							The textures of sand, gravel, logs and leaves have changed.
0.0.19a							The textures for glass and sponges have been added.
0.0.19a_01							Updated the glass texture.
0.0.19a_02							Updated the glass texture, once again.
0.0.20a							Added textures for sixteen cloth colors, the block of gold, dandelions, roses, red mushrooms and brown mushrooms.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST							Added textures for the block of iron, bricks, bookshelf, mossy cobblestone, smooth stone slab and TNT, and reworked the block of gold to use three textures instead of one.
							Updated the gold ore texture.
0.28							Added the obsidian texture.
							Changed the colors of the gray cloth variants and tnt.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Added the torch texture.
			20091231-1856				Changed the torch texture.
			20100109-1939				Changed the sapling texture.
			20100124-2119				Added textures for chests and their large counterparts.
			20100128-2200				Added the textures for diamond ore and the block of diamond.
							The textures used for the gear are not found in terrain.png, but rather in the /misc folder.
			20100130				Added textures for the crafting table.
Minecraft Indev			20100206-2034				Added textures for farmland and wheat crop blocks.
			20100219				Added textures for the furnace.
Java Edition Infdev
Minecraft Infdev			20100607				Added textures for ladders and doors (doors at this point used distinct textures for left and right).
			20100616-1808				A new texture has been added for leaves, specifically for fast graphics.
			20100618				Added textures for rails.
							The ladder and door textures have been darkened.
			20100624				Removed all of the cloth textures, except for white. Also removed were the right-hinge door textures - doors now use a flipped left hinge for right hinge doors instead.
			20100625-1917				The monster spawner texture has been added.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1							Added the textures for redstone ore, redstone torches, redstone wire, levers and iron doors.
v1.0.4							Added textures for ice, snow, and for snow-covered grass blocks.
v1.0.6							The textures for cactus have been added.
v1.0.11							Added the textures for clay and sugar cane.
							Updated the bricks and cactus textures.
v1.0.14							Added textures for the jukebox.
v1.2.0			preview				Added the textures for netherrack, soul sand, glowstone, pumpkins and jack o'lanterns.
							Slight changes have been made to rail textures.
							Grass block and leaves textures have been made grayscale in light of the new biome coloring system.
							Removed the gear textures, and the side and bottom textures of gold, iron, and diamond blocks are now unused.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Added textures for dispensers, spruce leaves, spruce logs, birch logs, lapis lazuli blocks, sandstone, cakes and fifteen new wool colors.
1.3							Added textures for redstone repeaters and beds.
							Redstone wire is now colored via a tint system, resulting in two new redstone wire textures being added and the original two removed.
1.5							Added textures for spruce saplings, birch saplings, powered rails, detector rails and a tintable side texture for grass blocks.
							The unused cobweb texture has been changed, and cobwebs actually implemented.
							An invisible overlay texture for redstone wire has been added, its exact purpose unknown.
1.6			Test Build 3				Added textures for dead bushes, grass, ferns and trapdoors.
1.7							Added textures for pistons, including a back texture which duplicates that of the furnace and dispenser.
							Updated the bricks and cobblestone textures.
							The way in which textures are applied to blocks has been improved to eliminate odd inconsistencies. As a result, the textures for cakes and beds have changed.
1.8			Pre-release				Added textures for stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, red mushroom blocks, brown mushroom blocks, mushroom stems, melons, iron bars, glass panes, vines and stems.
							Changed the texture of mossy cobblestone.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added textures for lily pads, mycelium, Nether bricks and Nether wart.
							Updated the monster spawner texture.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Added textures for the cauldron.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Added textures for brewing stands, enchanting tables and end portal frames.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				The end portal frame's textures changed, and end stone implemented.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				Changed the textures of blocks of diamond, gold, iron, bricks, dirt, glowstone, grass block tops, gravel, netherrack and planks.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Added the dragon egg texture.
							Changed the textures of the sides of grass blocks and sand.
1.2.1			12w03a				Added textures for jungle logs and jungle leaves.
			12w04a				Added jungle saplings.
							Changed the dispenser and oak sapling textures.
			12w07a				Added redstone lamp textures.
			1.2				Updated redstone lamp textures.
1.2.4			release				Added spruce planks, birch planks, jungle planks, cut sandstone, chiseled sandstone and chiseled stone bricks.
							Slightly changed the sandstone side texture and most wool colors.
1.3.1			12w19a				Added cocoa.
			12w21a				Added emerald ore, with the incorrect texture.
							Changed the gravel texture.
							Removed the old chest textures.
			12w21b				Corrected the emerald ore texture.
			12w22a				Added textures for the blocks of emerald, tripwire and tripwire hooks.
			12w23a				The texture of tripwire has been changed to be lighter or more translucent.
			1.3				The textures of stems have changed slightly - their textures have been moved a pixel to the left.
1.4.2			12w32a				Added the textures for beacons and command blocks.
			12w34a				Added textures for flower pots, carrots and potatoes.
			12w38a				Updated the beacon texture.
			12w40a				Updated the beacon texture, again.
			12w41a				Added the anvil textures.
			12w42a				Updated the repeater textures.
1.5			13w01a				Added redstone comparators, daylight detectors and Nether quartz ore.
			13w02a				Added textures for block of quartz, chiseled quartz block, quartz pillar and activator rail. The top and side texture of usual quartz blocks are identical, but are distinct files.
							Added unique hopper textures. The top and inside texture is one duplicates of the cauldron textures.
							Updated the comparator texture.
							Added actual animated textures for fire, water, lava, and Nether portals.
			13w03a				Added the dropper texture.
			13w04a				Added textures for vertically facing dispensers and droppers.
			13w10a				Detector rails now have a unique texture for when activated.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added textures for hay bales.
			13w17a				Added the terracotta texture.
			13w18a				Added the block of coal texture.
			13w19a				Added stained terracotta.
							Changed the block of coal and lapis lazuli block textures.
1.7.2			13w36a				Added podzol, packed ice, alliums, azure bluets, blue orchids, oxeye daisy, orange tulips, pink tulips, red tulips, white tulips, lilacs, peony, rose bushes, sunflowers, tall grass, and large ferns with their respective textures.
							Roses have been effectively replaced by poppies.
			13w39a				Added red sand and its texture.
			13w41a				Added stained glass and stained glass panes.
			13w42a				The stained glass related textures have changed.
			13w43a				Added the textures for acacia and dark oak trees, acacia saplings and dark oak saplings.
			1.7				Added acacia planks and dark oak planks textures.
							The acacia log texture has been updated, and a unique texture has been added for the dark oak log (it was previously identical to the spruce log).
							Added unique top textures for each log type, which previously reused the oak log top texture. Individual texture files existed for each log type before this version, although were duplicates of the oak log top texture.
1.8			14w02a				Added textures for granite, polished granite, diorite, polished diorite, andesite, polished andesite and slime blocks.
			14w05a				Added the texture for barriers.
			14w07a				Added the texture for iron trapdoors.
			14w10a				Updated cauldron textures in accordance with its model change.
							Hoppers now have a unique top texture.
							The oak trapdoor texture file is now 442 bytes (previously 357). Whether this is due to any visual changes is unknown. Testing indicates no - the only changes appear to be to the transparent portions.
			14w17a				The texture for tripwire has been changed to add another line.
			14w25a				Added textures for the new sea lantern, prismarine, prismarine bricks, and dark prismarine blocks.
							Updated the sponge texture and added a texture for the new wet sponge.
							Added a new texture for coarse dirt.
							Removed the textures for fast leaves.
							Grass textures have been brightened.
			14w31a				Added a texture for the daylight detector when inverted.
			14w32a				Added textures for red sandstone, cut red sandstone and chiseled red sandstone.
			14w32d				Added textures for five new door types.
			14w33a				The jungle door inside texture has been removed.
1.9			15w31a				Added textures for end stone bricks, purpur blocks, purpur pillars, then-grass paths, chorus plants, chorus flowers, beetroots, end rods, and structure blocks.
							Changed some door textures slightly.
							The textures used for redstone dust have changed - the dot now has its own texture, and two different line textures are used on it.
			15w34a				Added new textures for command blocks.
			15w35a				Changed the command block textures and added a specific texture for conditional command blocks.
			15w42a				Added textures for frosted ice.
			15w43b				Added overlay texture for water.
1.10			16w20a				Added textures for bone blocks, magma blocks, Nether wart blocks and red Nether bricks.
							Updated the structure block textures.
1.11			16w39a				Added textures for observers.
			pre1				Added a unique texture for the observer's output when active.
							Changed the top and front textures.
1.12			17w06a				Added textures for sixteen colors each of concrete, concrete powder and glazed terracotta.
							Updated all wool textures.
			17w13a				The textures of four glazed terracotta blocks have changed.
			17w15a				Removed the bed block textures - beds are now handled as entities.
1.13			17w47a				Added textures for unique trapdoor variants.
			18w07a				Added textures for kelp, seagrass, dried kelp blocks, stripped logs and turtle eggs.
			18w09a				Added the textures for coral blocks.
			18w10a				Added the textures for corals.
							Updated the textures of kelp and living coral blocks.
			18w10b				Added individualized dead coral block textures.
							The textures for coral have been changed.
							The generic dead coral block texture has been removed.
			18w11a				Added the textures for coral fans.
			18w14a				Changed the kelp textures again.
			18w14b				Added the texture for sea pickles.
							Updated four of the five coral fan textures.
			18w15a				Added blue ice and its texture.
							Changed water's texture to allow for more extensive biome tinting.
			18w20a				Removed the mirrored dried kelp block side texture.
			18w22b				The water overlay texture has been changed to allow biome tinting.
			pre1				Added unique textures for the tops of wood blocks.
							Changed the stripped jungle log side texture.
			pre2				Removed the wood block top textures.
			pre8				Added textures for dead coral fans.
1.13.1			18w32a				Added textures for dead corals.
1.14			18w43a				Added the textures for cornflowers, lily of the valley, wither roses, bamboo and looms.
							Updated a large amount of textures. Many blocks which had identical textures are now visually distinct: oak, birch, acacia and dark oak leaves, unripe carrot, potato and beetroot crops, piston backs are now distinct from the furnace/dispenser/dropper texture, ice from intact frosted ice, the block of quartz's top texture differing from its side texture (by one pixel), and possibly more.
			18w44a				Added textures for barrels, bells, blast furnaces, cartography tables, fletching tables, grindstones, lecterns, smithing tables, smokers and stonecutters.
							Changed more block textures.
							The enchanting table's bottom texture is now identical to that of obsidian from the previous snapshot.
			18w45a				Added textures for scaffolding.
							Updated the lectern front and side textures, and the grindstone pivot texture.
							The lectern top side, base side and bottom textures appear to have been removed.
			18w46a				Added textures for jigsaw blocks and lanterns.
							Updated the textures of several of the new crafting stations.
			18w47a				Updated a good amount of textures.
			18w47b				Updated log and stripped log top textures, and spruce door and trapdoor textures, among others.
			18w48a				Updated grindstone textures.
			18w49a				Added textures for the sweet berry bush.
			18w50a				Updated several textures once again.
			19w02a				Added campfire textures.
			19w03a				Added composter textures.
							Overhauled the campfire, removing its top and side textures and replacing them with log textures.
			19w07a				Added a dedicated texture for open barrels.
			19w08a				Updated even more textures.
			19w12a				Modified the scaffolding side texture.
			19w13b				The block of quartz top and side textures have been changed. Both are now identical in texture, no longer differing by one pixel.
			pre1				The loom top texture has flipped to fix MC-146295.
1.14.1			pre1				Updated the iron ore and crafting table textures.
1.15			19w34a				Added textures for the newly added bee nests and beehives.
			19w41a				Added textures for honey blocks and honeycomb blocks.
1.16			20w06a				Added ancient debris, basalt, crimson and warped wood products, Nether fungi, Nether sprouts, crimson roots, warped roots, the block of netherite, soul soil, shroomlights, weeping vines, soul fire, soul torches and soul lanterns.
							Updated the Nether wart block texture.
			20w07a				Updated soul lanterns.
			20w09a				Added textures for crying obsidian, targets and potted roots.
							Updated purpur pillar and stripped stem top textures.
			20w10a				Changed the Nether sprouts texture.
			20w11a				Added textures for Nether gold ore and twisting vines.
			20w12a				Added textures for polished basalt and respawn anchors.
			20w13a				Added the lodestone.
							Added a lock texture for the jigsaw block.
							Updated the Nether gold ore texture.
			20w15a				Added textures for blackstone and derivatives, cracked Nether bricks, chiseled Nether bricks, quartz bricks and soul campfires.
			20w16a				Added iron chains.
							Updated two blocks from the previous snapshot.
			20w19a				Updated the Nether door textures.
			pre3				Updated the back texture of the observer.
			pre5				The water overlay texture has been darkened.
1.17			20w45a				The textures of block of coppers, cut copper, block of amethysts, budding amethyst, amethyst clusters, calcite, tuff, tinted glass, and 17 types of candle are added.
			20w46a				Added powder snow.
							Updated several textures from the previous snapshot.
			20w48a				Added textures for dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone.
							Updated the amethyst block textures once again.
			20w49a				Added sculk sensor textures.
			21w03a				Added the glow lichen texture.
			21w05a				Added the moss block, glow berries, big dripleaf, small dripleaf, spore blossom, azalea leaves, hanging roots, rooted dirt and azaleas textures.
			21w06a				Added stem textures to small dripleaf.
							Updated texture of hanging roots.
			21w07a				Added textures for deepslate, chiseled deepslate, deepslate bricks, polished deepslate and deepslate tiles.
							Updated textures to gold ore, iron ore, redstone ore, coal ore, diamond ore, polished blackstone bricks, cracked polished blackstone bricks and side texture of blackstone.
							Compressed textures of green concrete powder and fully grown Nether wart.
			21w08a				Added deepslate ores, smooth basalt and cobbled deepslate textures.
							Added deepslate top texture.
							Updated coal, copper, iron, gold, redstone, lapis lazuli and emerald ore, deepslate, chiseled deepslate, deepslate bricks, polished deepslate, deepslate tiles and side texture of blackstone.
			21w10a				Added deepslate variants of coal ore, copper ore, emerald ore, cracked deepslate bricks and cracked deepslate tiles textures.
							Updated coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, deepslate, cobbled deepslate and all deepslate ores textures.
			21w11a				Added powered lightning rod texture.
							Updated gilded blackstone, snowy grass block, pumpkin and smoker textures.
			21w15a				Added raw iron, raw copper and raw gold blocks.
							Updated gold ore, deepslate copper ore, lapis lazuli ore and deepslate lapis lazuli ore textures.
			21w16a				Changed Blocks of raw iron and gold textures.
			21w17a				Changed textures of blocks of raw metal.
			pre1				Added lit candles and potted azalea textures.
			pre3				Changed dyed lit candles textures.
1.18			21w41a				Changed redstone comparator on and cave vines plant textures.
			pre5				Fixed and changed big amount of textures.
			pre7				Changed dirt path and stripped dark oak log textures again.
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Added reinforced deepslate, sculk, sculk catalyst, sculk shrieker and sculk veins textures.
			22w11a				Added all froglight types, frogspawn, mangrove leaves, mangrove log stripped mangrove log, mangrove planks, mangrove door, mangrove trapdoor, mangrove propagule, mangrove roots, muddy mangrove roots, mud, packed mud and mud bricks textures.
							Updated and fixed brewing stand, cocoa (stage 2), end portal frame, end rod, mycelium side and smoker bottom textures.
							Added all sculk blocks textures into a regular snapshot.
			22w13a				Readded reinforced deepslate textures into a regular snapshot.
							Added can summon sculk shrieker texture, it uses old inner top texture.
							Updated sculk shrieker inner top texture, now it uses when sculk shrieker cannot summon a warden.
			22w15a				Changed side sculk shrieker and mangrove leaves textures.
			22w17a				Changed bottom brewing stand and two types of head pistons textures.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Added the textures for bamboo doors, bamboo fences, bamboo fence gates, bamboo planks, bamboo mosaics, bamboo trapdoors and chiseled bookshelves.
			22w45a				Added the textures for blocks of bamboo and blocks of stripped bamboo.
1.19.3			22w45a				The textures for scaffolding have been changed.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w46a				The textures for bamboo planks, blocks of bamboo and stripped bamboo tops have been changed.
							The textures for chiseled bookshelves have been renamed from "stage0", "stage6" to "empty", "ocuppied".
							The textures for chiseled bookshelf stages 1-5 have been removed.
			pre3				The textures for blocks of bamboo and stripped bamboo tops have been changed again.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added the textures for cherry leaves, cherry logs, stripped cherry logs, cherry planks, cherry doors, cherry trapdoors, cherry saplings, pink petals, suspicious sand, torchflowers, and torchflower crops.
			pre2				The textures for cherry doors, cherry saplings, and pink petalss have been changed.
			pre4				The texture for cherry leaves has been changed.
1.20			23w12a				Added the textures for calibrated sculk sensors, pitcher plants, sniffer eggs, and suspicious gravel.
			23w13a				The textures for sniffer eggs have been split.
							The texture for torchflower crop stage 2 has been removed.
			23w14a				The texture for purple glazed terracotta has been changed.
1.20.2			23w31a				The texture for bamboo fence gates has been changed.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w42a				Added the textures for crafters.
			23w43a				Added the textures for chiseled copper, chiseled tuff, chiseled tuff bricks, copper bulbs, copper doors, copper grates, copper trapdoors, polished tuff, and tuff bricks.
							The textures for crafters have been changed.
			23w44a				The textures for copper doors, copper trapdoors, and tuff bricks have been changed.
			23w45a				Added the textures for trial spawners.
			23w46a				The textures for crafters and tuff bricks have been changed.
			pre3				The textures for copper door bottoms have been changed.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w05a				Added the textures for vaults.
			24w06a				The textures for vaults have been changed.
			24w09a				Added the texture for vault tops.
							The textures for vaults have been changed again.
							The textures for off and on vault tops have been removed.
			24w10a				The texture for off vault fronts has been changed.
			24w11a				Added the texture for heavy cores.
			24w13a				Added the textures for ominous trial spawners and ominous vaults.
							The texture for vaults have been changed.
			pre1				The texture for trial spawners, vaults, ominous trial spawners, and ominous vaults have been changed.
1.21			24w19a				The textures for trial spawners and ominous trial spawners have been changed.
			pre2				The texture for trial spawner bottoms has been changed.
1.21.2			24w33a				The texture for redstone torches has changed.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Added the textures for pale oak leaves, pale oak logs, stripped pale oak logs, pale oak planks, pale oak doors, pale oak trapdoors, pale oak saplings, creaking hearts, pale moss blocks, pale moss carpets, and pale hanging moss.
1.21.4			24w44a				Added the textures for eyeblossoms, resin clumps, blocks of resin, resin bricks, and chiseled resin bricks.
							The textures for creaking heart tops, Nether bricks, cracked Nether bricks, chiseled Nether bricks, and red Nether bricks have been changed.
			24w46a				The textures for chiseled resin bricks and lit powered exposed copper bulbs have been changed.
1.21.5			25w02a				Added the textures for dormant creaking hearts, leaf litter, and wildflowers.
			25w03a				Added the textures for test blocks and test instance blocks.
			25w05a				Added the textures for bushes and firefly bushes.
			25w06a				Added the textures for cactus flowers, short dry grass, and tall dry grass.
			25w08a				The texture for leaf litter has been changed.
			25w10a				The textures for test blocks and test instance blocks have been changed.
1.21.6			25w15a				Added the textures for dried ghasts.
1.21.9			25w31a				Added the textures for oxidized lightning rods and shelves.
			25w32a				Added the textures for copper torches, copper bars, copper chains, and copper lanterns.
			25w36a				The textures for copper torches, weathered copper bars, and copper lanterns have been changed.
26.1			snap4				The texture for stripped spruce log tops has been changed.
			snap5				Added the texture for golden dandelions.
			snap7				The textures for frogspawn and active respawn anchor tops have been changed.
26.2			snap1				Added the textures for cinnabar and sulfur blocks.
			snap3				Added the textures for sulfur spikes.
							The textures for polished, chiseled, and brick variants for cinnabar and sulfur have been changed.
							Beds are now blocks again.
			snap7				Signs and hanging signs are now rendered as blocks.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3			snap1				Added the textures for poplar leaves, poplar logs, stripped poplar logs, poplar planks, poplar doors, poplar trapdoors, poplar shelves, poplar signs, poplar hanging signs, poplar saplings, red shrubs, and shelf mushrooms.
			snap2				The textures for poplar door tops, poplar signs, and shelf mushrooms have been changed.
			snap3				Added the texture for straw beds.
							The textures for poplar door tops and up tip merge sulfur spikes have been changed.
			snap4				The textures for poplar log tops, door tops, hanging signs, and hay bales have been changed.
			snap6				The texture for straw beds has been changed.