Non-model-dependent block elements

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Models are used for defining the fundamental geometry for the vast majority of blocks in the game. Some blocks have additional visual data associated with them which are effectively fixed in nature; while their textures can often be modified, their geometry, positioning and fundamental presence usually cannot be.

Render models, but have additional graphics

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Blocks	Relevant element	Render
👁 Image Chest 👁 Image Trapped Chest 👁 Image Ender Chest 👁 Image Copper Chest 👁 Image Exposed Copper Chest 👁 Image Weathered Copper Chest 👁 Image Oxidized Copper Chest 👁 Image Waxed Copper Chest 👁 Image Waxed Exposed Copper Chest 👁 Image Waxed Weathered Copper Chest 👁 Image Waxed Oxidized Copper Chest	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Exposed Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Weathered Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Oxidized Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Waxed Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Waxed Exposed Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Waxed Weathered Copper Golem Statue 👁 Image Waxed Oxidized Copper Golem Statue	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Shulker Box 👁 Image Dyed Shulker Box, all 16 colours	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Banner, all 16 colours	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Wall Banner, all 16 colours	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Conduit	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Decorated Pot	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Zombie Head 👁 Image Creeper Head 👁 Image Skeleton Skull 👁 Image Wither Skeleton Skull 👁 Image Player Head 👁 Image Dragon Head 👁 Image Piglin Head	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Zombie Wall Head 👁 Image Creeper Wall Head 👁 Image Skeleton Wall Skull 👁 Image Wither Skeleton Wall Skull 👁 Image Player Wall Head 👁 Image Dragon Wall Head 👁 Image Piglin Wall Head	Entire block	👁 Image
👁 Image Oak Sign 👁 Image Birch Sign 👁 Image Spruce Sign 👁 Image Jungle Sign 👁 Image Acacia Sign 👁 Image Dark Oak Sign 👁 Image Mangrove Sign 👁 Image Cherry Sign 👁 Image Pale Oak Sign 👁 Image Bamboo Sign 👁 Image Crimson Sign 👁 Image Warped Sign	Text	👁 Image
👁 Image Oak Wall Sign 👁 Image Birch Wall Sign 👁 Image Spruce Wall Sign 👁 Image Jungle Wall Sign 👁 Image Acacia Wall Sign 👁 Image Dark Oak Wall Sign 👁 Image Mangrove Wall Sign 👁 Image Cherry Wall Sign 👁 Image Pale Oak Wall Sign 👁 Image Bamboo Wall Sign 👁 Image Crimson Wall Sign 👁 Image Warped Wall Sign	Text	👁 Image
👁 Image Oak Hanging Sign 👁 Image Birch Hanging Sign 👁 Image Spruce Hanging Sign 👁 Image Jungle Hanging Sign 👁 Image Acacia Hanging Sign 👁 Image Dark Oak Hanging Sign 👁 Image Mangrove Hanging Sign 👁 Image Cherry Hanging Sign 👁 Image Pale Oak Hanging Sign 👁 Image Bamboo Hanging Sign 👁 Image Crimson Hanging Sign 👁 Image Warped Hanging Sign	Text	👁 Image
👁 Image Oak Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Birch Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Spruce Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Jungle Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Acacia Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Dark Oak Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Mangrove Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Cherry Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Pale Oak Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Bamboo Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Crimson Wall Hanging Sign 👁 Image Warped Wall Hanging Sign	Text	👁 Image
👁 Image Beacon, when active 👁 Image Test Instance Block, when in use	Beam	👁 Image
👁 Image Bell	Bell itself	👁 Image
👁 Image Enchanting Table	Book	👁 Image
👁 Image Lectern	Book	👁 Image
👁 Image Monster Spawner 👁 Image Trial Spawner	Entity inside	👁 Image
👁 Image Vault	Items inside	👁 Image
👁 Image Oak Shelf 👁 Image Birch Shelf 👁 Image Spruce Shelf 👁 Image Jungle Shelf 👁 Image Acacia Shelf 👁 Image Dark Oak Shelf 👁 Image Mangrove Shelf 👁 Image Cherry Shelf 👁 Image Pale Oak Shelf 👁 Image Bamboo Shelf 👁 Image Crimson Shelf 👁 Image Warped Shelf	Items inside	👁 Image
👁 Image Campfire 👁 Image Soul Campfire	Items placed	👁 Image
👁 Image Suspicious Sand 👁 Image Suspicious Gravel	Item during extraction	👁 Image

Do not render model elements

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Block	Reason
👁 Image Air 👁 Image Cave Air 👁 Image Void Air 👁 Image Barrier 👁 Image Light 👁 Image Structure Void	The block is hardcoded to be invisible. Despite having empty physical model data, defining such a model does not change it.^[1]
👁 Image Moving Piston	This is a highly technical block which is only used in specific circumstances, with its own special rendering method.
👁 Image End Gateway 👁 Image End Portal	These blocks display a starfield which is completely separate from models. Unlike other block entities, a block model specified with these IDs will not render.^[2]
👁 Image Lava 👁 Image Water	Fluid rendering is hardcoded and their handling differs significantly from blocks. Defining a model will change the associated particles, but will add no geometry.^[3]
👁 Image Bubble Column	This is intended to render mostly as water and uses particles, however custom models still do not render planes within it, unlike in Bedrock Edition.^[4]

History

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👁 Image

This section is missing information about: when each block's model could be changed in 1.8, even though only particles were affected (note: despite the fact that not all blocks became remodellable at once, not being able to change a block's model in a given version does not qualify it for this page). to test:

sign (not in 1.8)
wall sign (not in 1.8)
chest (not in 1.8)
trapped chest (not in 1.8)
ender chest (not in 1.8)
skull (not in 1.8)
moving piston
maybe banners i guess

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

Java Edition Infdev
Minecraft Infdev	20100607	Standing signs have been added as a block, using the previous texture file used for sign entities.
Minecraft Infdev	20100625-1917	Spawners have been added; an entity is rendered within to indicate what is spawned.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1		Wall signs have been added, also rendering as an entity rather than as part of the main block mesh.
v1.1.0		Spawners no longer contain a miniature model of the mob that is to be spawned.
Java Edition Beta
1.2		Spawners once again contain a miniature model of the mob that is to be spawned.
1.8	Pre-release	Chests now render as entities; prior to this version they were part of the block mesh like other blocks. This change has been instituted to accommodate the new opening animation.
Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3	👁 Image Enchanting tables have been added; the main body of the table is rendered as part of the chunk mesh, but the rotating, openable book renders as an entity.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3	👁 Image End portals have been added, which render a section of starfield. A normal untinted grass block texture plane exists on the underside, implying that the block can use normal geometry at this point, unlike in later versions.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4	End portals have been changed; the starfield now renders two pixels lower. The excess plane on the bottom has been removed. It is not known whether there was an internal change in this version to force this block ID to not render chunk geometry even if it tried, or if such a change was made later (presumably in 1.13-pre3 or an earlier version).
1.3.1	12w21a	Ender chests have been implemented, using the same rendering system as chests.
1.4.2	12w32a	👁 Image Beacons have been added, whose beams are rendered separately from the block mesh.
	12w36a	Five types of heads (zombie head, creeper head, skeleton skull, wither skeleton skull, creeper head) have been added, which render as entities.
	12w36a	👁 Image A bonus object is now rendered inside of beacons, resembling the end crystal.
	12w38a	👁 Image The beacon's beam is now a 3D object, unlike previously, where it rendered as a series of translucent rectangles.
	12w38a	👁 Image The object added to placed beacon blocks in 12w36a has been removed.
	12w40a	👁 Image The beacon's beam geometry has been changed, alongside the assigned texture.
1.5	13w01a	Trapped chests have been implemented, using the same rendering system as chests and ender chests.
1.8	14w30a	Banners have been added, which render as entities.
1.9	15w31a	Dragon heads have been added, which render as entities.
1.9	15w31a	End gateways have been added, which also use a starfield, much like end portals.
1.11	16w39a	16 distinct types of shulker box have been added, which render as entities.
1.12	17w15a	Beds now render as entities; prior to this version they were part of the block mesh like other blocks. This change has been instituted to accommodate the alternate colors in a way that would not exceed the block ID limit, however this system considerably outlasted the circumstances requiring it.
1.13	18w10b	A seventeenth shulker box variant has been implemented, which uses much the same rendering system.
	18w15a	Conduits have been added, which render as entities.
	pre3	It is now possible to assign models to end portal and end gateway blocks through the blockstates system, however these will still only be used for particles and will not render any quads as would be done for other block IDs.
1.14	18w43a	Birch, spruce, jungle, acacia and dark oak signs, alongside their wall variants, have been implemented, using the same rendering system as oak signs and oak wall signs.
	18w50a	👁 Image Bells, specifically the bell itself, now render as entities due to the introduction of a swinging animation. The stand they hang from remains customizable through the usual block model system.
	19w02a	👁 Image Lecterns may now hold books; the same model is used as with the enchanting table with different behaviour.
	19w02a	👁 Image Campfires have been added; the four slots for items render independently of the block model of the campfire itself.
	19w03a	👁 Image Campfire item positioning has changed.
1.15	19w39a	Each half of a large chest renders the whole large chest. In practice, this means that a large chest is comprised of two identical, overlapping large chest models. Previously, rendering large chests was entirely handled by the "right" block state, which represents the left half of a given large chest, and the "left" block state, which represents the right half of a given large chest, was completely invisible.
	19w41a	👁 Image The beacon beam geometry has changed once again, removing inner faces.
	19w42a	Each half of a large chest now only renders that half.
1.16	20w06a	Crimson and warped signs, alongside their wall variants, have been implemented, using the same rendering system as preceding such signs.
1.16	20w15a	Soul campfires have been added, which use an identical system to campfires for rendering items.
October 3, 2020		👁 Image It seems likely that sculk sensor tendrils were separate from the model at this point in development, as they moved in a way impossible via standard texture animation and were absent from the item form.
November 13, 2020		Sculk sensor tendrils appear to now be part of the model geometry itself, rather than separate, matching the form of the block that was ultimately implemented.
1.19	22w11a	Mangrove signs and mangrove wall have been implemented, using the same rendering system as preceding such signs.
1.19.3	22w42a	Ten variants of hanging sign have been added (oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, bamboo, crimson, warped), which can either be placed on the ceiling or wall, resulting in 20 distinct block IDs; in either case, all of these render as entities as typical signs do.
	22w42a	Bamboo signs and bamboo wall have been implemented, using the same rendering system as preceding such signs.
	22w46a	Piglin heads have been added, which render as entities.
1.19.4	23w07a	Decorated pots have been added, which render as entities.
		Suspicious sand and suspicious gravel have been added; the item that emerges during brushing is rendered independently of the block model of the block itself.
		Cherry signs and cherry hanging signs, alongside their wall variants, have been implemented, using the same rendering system as preceding such signs.
1.20.3	23w45a	Trial spawners have been added; much like regular spawners, a miniaturised version of the output mob is displayed within.
1.20.5	24w13a	Vaults have been added; much like spawners, a miniaturised version of the potential output item pool is displayed within.
1.21.2	24w40a	Pale oak signs and pale oak hanging signs, alongside their wall variants, have been implemented, using the same rendering system as preceding such signs.
1.21.4	24w46a	Many block entities will now render block model elements if assigned them, rather than rendering nothing at all but the entity and only using the model for defining the particles.^[5]
1.21.4	24w46a	For unknown reasons, end portal and end gateway blocks,^[6] as well as moving piston blocks, were not given this treatment and continue to ignore custom model geometry.
1.21.5	25w03a	👁 Image Test instance blocks have been added, which emit beacon-like beams.
1.21.9	25w31a	Copper golem statues have been added, which render as entities.
		Copper chests have been implemented, using the same rendering system as chests, ender chests and trapped chests.
		👁 Image Shelves have been added; the three slots for items render independently of the block model of the shelf itself. The items are centered vertically.
	25w32a	👁 Image Items on shelves have been moved downward.
	25w33a	Items on shelves can be configured to be either vertically centered or shifted downward.
26.2	snap3	Beds now use block models fully rather than only for particles, changing them from 👁 Image to 👁 Image .
	snap7	Signs of all types now use block models for their main body, such that only the text is rendered specially.
		Standing signs have been changed from 👁 Image to 👁 Image .
		Wall signs have been changed from 👁 Image to 👁 Image .
		Hanging signs have been changed from 👁 Image to 👁 Image .
		Wall hanging signs have been changed from 👁 Image to 👁 Image .