Java Edition history of textures/Blocks

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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.

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Used block textures[]

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-131655					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					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		20091223-1			Added the torch texture.
		20091231-1			Changed the torch texture.
		20100110			Changed the sapling texture.
		20100124			Added textures for chests and their large counterparts.
		20100128			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			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			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.
		20100625-2			The 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.
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 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 block of emerald, tripwire and tripwire hook.
		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.
		12w36a			Updated the beacon texture.
		12w38a			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 water, lava, fire 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 dyed 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 textures for the acacia log block, 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 Barrier.
		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			Changed the tripwire texture.
		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.
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.
					Updated the fire coral texture.
					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.
		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.
		Pre-Release 1			The loom top texture has flipped to fix MC-146295.
1.14.1		Pre-Release 1			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, fungi, nether sprouts, 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 chains.
					Updated two blocks from the previous snapshot.
		20w19a			Updated the nether door textures.
		Pre-release 3			Updated the back texture of the observer.
		?			Darkened the water overlay.
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 Block of Raw Metals.
		Pre-release 1			Added lit candles and potted azalea textures.
		Pre-release 3			Changed dyed lit candles textures.
1.18		21w41a			Changed redstone comparator on and cave vines plant textures.
		Pre-release 5			Fixed and changed big amount of textures.
		Pre-release 7			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.
					Readded 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.
1.20 (Experimental) 1.19.3		22w42a			The textures of bamboo door, bamboo fences, bamboo fence gates, bamboo planks, bamboo mosaic, bamboo trapdoors and chiseled bookshelf are added as experimental features in datapack for 1.20 update.
		22w45a			Added textures for block of bamboo and his stripped variant.
1.19.3		22w45a			Updated scaffolding textures.
1.20 (Experimental) 1.19.3		22w46a			Changed bamboo planks texture and top textures for block of bamboo and his stripped variant.
					Renamed chiseled bookshelf textures from "stage0", "stage6" to "empty", "ocuppied".
					Removed chiseled bookshelf stage1-5 textures.
		Pre-release 3			Top textures for both variants of block of bamboo were changed again.
1.20 (Experimental) 1.19.4		23w07a			‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Added cherry leaves, cherry log stripped cherry log, cherry planks, cherry door, cherry trapdoor, cherry sapling, pink petals, suspicious sand, torchflower and torchflower crops textures as experimental features in datapack for 1.20 update.
		Pre-release 2			Updated cherry doors, cherry sapling and pink petals textures.
		Pre-release 4			Cherry Leaves texture was updated.
1.20		23w12a			‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Added calibrated sculk sensor, flower, sniffer egg and suspicious gravel textures.

Blocks which use entity rendering[]

These textures are also used for blocks. However, the blocks in question render as entities rather than blocks. As such, the textures they use are much more akin to entity textures.

Java Edition Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Added the sign (now oak sign) texture. While the sign was an entity in this version, this same exact texture would later go on to be used when the sign was reimplemented as a block in Infdev 0607.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST					Removed sign code and model. Sign texture now unused.
Java Edition Infdev
20100607					Re-added sign. Sign texture is now used, once again.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Chests now use entity rendering and a new texture.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w21a			Added ender chests.
1.4.6		12w50a			Added textures for chests during the Christmas event.
1.5		13w01a			Added trapped chests.
1.12		17w15a			File:Red Bed (texture) JE1.png Beds now use entity rendering and new textures of 16 colors.
		17w17a			File:Red Bed (texture) JE2 BE2.png Changed all the bed textures.
1.13		18w15a			Added conduit texture.
1.14		18w43a			File:Spruce Sign (texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Birch Sign (texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Acacia Sign (texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Jungle Sign (texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Dark Oak Sign (texture) JE1 BE1.png Added spruce, birch, acacia, jungle and dark oak sign textures.
					Changed the ender chest texture.
					Changed all the bed textures.
1.15		19w39a			Changed all the chest textures layout.
1.16		20w06a			Added crimson and warped sign textures.
1.17		21w11a			Changed all the overworld wooden sign textures.
1.19		22w11a			Added the mangrove sign texture.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Added the bamboo sign texture.
		23w07a			Added the cherry sign texture.

Texture Update pre-releases[]

These textures were released as one of the two Texture Update resource packs but have never appeared in a full version.

Note: this section only includes textures that are exclusive to the Texture Update preview resource packs. Unchanged textures from before which were included with the pack, as well as textures that went on to make it into the game officially, are not currently included.

Java Edition
Texture Update		1.0.0			These textures were included as part of the first Texture Update resource pack, but did not appear in any actual Java Edition versions.
		2.0.0			Several other textures recieved updated versions and some 1.0.0 textures were also updated. The textures shown here did not appear in Java Edition game versions either.

Joke version exclusive textures[]

These textures only existed in specific joke versions and never appeared in official releases.

Java Edition
2.0		Blue Purple			Added a specific texture for burnt-out torches.
1.RV-Pre1					Added textures for the USB Charger Block.
20w14infinite					Added textures for an ant, box of infinite books, cursor and funky portal.
22w13oneBlockAtATime					Added a texture for the How did we get here? block, it uses the same texture as white carpet.

Textures used for block particles[]

These textures are not used directly for any blocks but are instead used for defining particles they emit upon being broken, fallen on, or sprinted on.

Java Edition
1.11		16w39b			Added shulker box top textures, as the fix for MC-107383.
1.12		pre4			Updated the shulker box top textures, excluding purple.
1.13		18w10b			Purple shulker boxes are now distinct from normal shulker boxes.
		pre3			Added a break particle texture for conduits.

Placeholder textures[]

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This section documents both placeholder textures for errors, and those formerly used for animated blocks.

History[]

Missing textures[]

Block placeholder textures[]

Animation placeholder textures[]

Unused textures[]