Display of blocks by entities

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.

Blocks not listed are assumed to work correctly across all five entities.

red and brown mooshrooms, snow golem pumpkins, iron golem poppies

also copper golem saddle slot and sulfur cube body slot

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.^[28]

Fence-like

Other

• 👁 Single chest
  
  Single chest
• 👁 Large chest, north connection
  
  Large chest, north connection
• 👁 Large chest, east connection
  
  Large chest, east connection
• 👁 Large chest, south connection
  
  Large chest, south connection
• 👁 Large chest, connection connection
  
  Large chest, connection connection
• 👁 Ender chest
  
  Ender chest
• 👁 Heads
  
  Heads

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.