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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, as well as any new blocks which reuse prior textures, will not be documented here. Texture files which are completely identical to other texture files will also be largely ignored for the time being.
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Used block textures
This section is missing information about Differences to investigate according to winmerge results (many may just be insignificant compression differences):
- Enchanting table bottom texture changed in 18w44a and 18w50a
- Acacia, birch, dark oak, jungle and oak trapdoors and the observer back and top changed between 17w47a and 1.13.2 (likely just compression).
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| Java Edition pre-Classic | |||||
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| rd-131655 |   Added the textures for grass blocks and cobblestone. | ||||
| rd-20090515 | File:Stone (texture) JE1 BE1.png    Added the textures for stone, dirt and planks, and a unique side texture for the grass block.
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 File:Cobblestone (texture) JE2.png Changed textures of grass block and cobblestone. | |||||
| rd-161348 |  Added the texture for sapling.
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 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 sapling. | ||||
| 0.0.14a |         Added textures for coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, sand, gravel, the sides and top/bottom of logs, and leaves.
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File:Cobblestone (texture) JE3 BE1.png  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 |   File:Block of Gold (top texture) JE2.png File:Block of Gold (texture) JE2.png File:Block of Gold (bottom texture) JE2.png         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.
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   Changed the colors of the gray cloth variants and changed tnt. | |||||
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
| 0.31 | 20091223-1 |  Added the torch texture. | |||
| 20091231-1 |  Changed the torch texture. | ||||
| 20100110 |  Changed the sapling texture. | ||||
| 20100124 |    File:Large Chest (left front texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Large Chest (right front texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Large Chest (left back texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Large Chest (right back texture) JE1 BE1.png Added textures for chests and their large counterparts. | ||||
| 20100128 |    Added the textures for diamond ore and the block of diamond.
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 File:Gear (center rod texture) JE1.png 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.
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     The ladder and door textures have been darkened. | |||||
| 20100624 | Removed all of the cloth textures, excluding 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.
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    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.
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  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 |      File:Lapis Lazuli Block (texture) JE1 BE1.png                         Added textures for dispensers, spruce leaves, birch logs, spruce logs, lapis lazuli blocks, sandstone, cakes and fifteen new wool colors. | ||||
| 1.3 |         Added textures for redstone repeaters and beds.
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  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 birch saplings, spruce saplings, powered rails, detector rails and a tintable side texture for grass blocks.
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 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.
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 File:Cobblestone (texture) JE4 BE2.png 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 |          File:Iron Bars (item) JE1 BE1.png  File:Glass Pane (top texture) JE1 BE1.png   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.
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 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 | File:Block of Diamond (texture) JE3 BE2.png File:Block of Gold (texture) JE4 BE2.png File:Block of Iron (texture) JE3 BE2.png       File:Stone (texture) JE2 BE2.png  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.
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  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.
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  Changed the dispenser and oak sapling textures. | |||||
| 12w07a |   Added redstone lamp textures. | ||||
| 1.2 |   Updated redstone lamp textures. | ||||
| 1.2.4 | release |       Added birch planks, spruce planks, jungle planks, cut sandstone, chiseled sandstone and chiseled stone bricks.
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                Slightly changed the sandstone side texture and most wool colors. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w19a |    Added cocoa. | |||
| 12w21a |  Added emerald ore, with the incorrect texture.
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 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 | File:Block of Quartz (texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Block of Quartz (texture) JE1 BE1.png   File:Chiseled Quartz Block (texture) JE1 BE1.png  File:Quartz Pillar (texture) JE1 BE1.png   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.
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 Added unique hopper textures. The top and inside texture is one duplicates of the cauldron textures. | |||||
  Updated the comparator texture. | |||||
File:Fire (texture 0) JE1.png File:Fire (texture 1) JE1.png File:Water (texture) JE1.png File:Flowing Water (texture) JE1.png    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.
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 File:Lapis Lazuli Block (texture) JE2 BE2.png Changed the block of coal and lapis lazuli block textures. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a |                   File:Tall Grass (top texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Tall Grass (bottom texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Large Fern (top texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Large Fern (bottom texture) JE1 BE1.png    Added alliums, azure bluets, blue orchids, oxeye daisy, orange tulips, pink tulips, red tulips, white tulips, lilacs, peony, rose bushes, sunflowers, tall grass, large ferns, packed ice and podzol along with their respective textures. | |||
 Roses have been effectively replaced by poppies. | |||||
| File:Grass (texture) 13w36a.png The tallgrass texture file is now 579 bytes (previously 348). Whether this is due to any visual changes is unknown. | |||||
| File:Sugar Cane (texture) JE2 BE2.png Sugar cane is now tinted depending on the biome it's in. | |||||
| 13w39a |  Added red sand and its texture. | ||||
| 13w41a |                 File:White Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Light Gray Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Gray Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Black Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Brown Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Red Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Orange Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Yellow Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Lime Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Green Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Cyan Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Light Blue Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Blue Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Purple Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Magenta Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png File:Pink Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE1.png Added stained glass and stained glass panes. | ||||
| 13w42a |                 File:White Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Light Gray Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Gray Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Black Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Brown Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Red Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Orange Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Yellow Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Lime Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Green Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Cyan Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Light Blue Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Blue Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Purple Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Magenta Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png File:Pink Stained Glass Pane (top texture) JE2 BE1.png 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.
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  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.
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 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. | |||||
| 14w17a |  Changed the tripwire texture. | ||||
| 14w25a |     Added textures for the new prismarine, prismarine bricks, dark prismarine and sea lantern 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. | |||||
| File:Grass (texture) 14w25a.png The tallgrass texture file is now 584 bytes (previously 579). Whether this is due to any visual changes is unknown. | |||||
| 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 beetroots, then-grass paths, chorus plants, chorus flowers, end rods, end stone bricks, purpur blocks, purpur pillars 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.
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     Updated the structure block textures. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a |     Added textures for observers. | |||
| pre1 |  Added a unique texture for the observer's output when active.
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  Changed the top and front textures. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w06a |                  File:Light Gray Concrete Powder Powder (texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Gray Concrete Powder Powder (texture) JE1 BE1.png                              Added textures for sixteen colors each of concrete, concrete powder and glazed terracotta.
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                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.
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       Updated the textures of kelp and living coral blocks. | |||||
| 18w10b |      Added individualized dead coral block textures.
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 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.
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    Updated four of the five coral fan textures. | |||||
| 18w15a |  Added blue ice and its texture.
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 File:Flowing Water (texture) JE2.png 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.
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 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.
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File:Stone (texture) JE3.png       File:Cobblestone (texture) JE5.png                 File:Block of Quartz (texture) JE2.png   File:Chiseled Quartz Block (texture) JE2 BE2.png  File:Quartz Pillar (texture) JE2.png                     File:Block of Iron (texture) JE4 BE3.png  File:Lapis Lazuli Block (texture) JE3 BE3.png File:Block of Gold (texture) JE5.png File:Block of Diamond (texture) JE4.png                                                        File:Ice (texture) JE2 BE3.png    File:Packed Ice (texture) JE2 BE2.png                   File:Slime Block (texture) JE2 BE2.png                                                                                        File:Fern (texture) JE2 BE2.png File:Tall Grass (top texture) JE2 BE2.png File:Tall Grass (bottom texture) JE2 BE2.png File:Large Fern (top texture) JE2 BE2.png File:Large Fern (bottom texture) JE2 BE2.png                                                             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.
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File:Stone (texture) JE4 BE3.png                   File:Cactus (top texture) JE4 BE3.png  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.
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   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.
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              Updated the textures of several of the new crafting stations. | |||||
| 18w47a |               File:Block of Gold (texture) JE6 BE3.png File:Block of Diamond (texture) JE5 BE3.png                             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 |  File:Cobblestone (texture) JE6 BE3.png    File:Quartz Pillar (texture) JE3 BE2.png            File:Grass (texture) JE3 BE2.png Updated several textures once again. | ||||
| 19w02a |     Added campfire textures. | ||||
| 19w03a |      Added composter textures.
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  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 | File:Block of Quartz (texture) JE3 BE2.png The block of quartz texture has been changed. The side and top 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 |                                    File:Soul Fire (texture 0) JE1 BE1.png File:Soul Fire (texture 1) JE1 BE1.png   Added ancient debris, basalt, crimson and warped wood products, roots, nether sprouts, the block of netherite, fungi, 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.
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   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.
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 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.
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  Updated two blocks from the previous snapshot. | |||||
| 20w19a |     Updated the nether door textures. | ||||
| Pre-release 3 |  Updated the back texture of the observer. | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a |                                     The textures of amethyst clusters, block of amethysts, budding amethyst, calcite, tuff, tinted glass, block of coppers, cut copper and 17 types of candle are added. | |||
| 20w46a |  Added powder snow.
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   File:Tinted Glass (texture) JE2.png   Updated several textures from the previous snapshot. | |||||
| 20w48a |            Added textures for dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone.
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  Updated the amethyst block textures once again. | |||||
| 20w49a |      Added sculk sensor textures. | ||||
| 21w03a |  Added the glow lichen texture. | ||||
| 21w05a |            File:Spore Blossom (texture) JE1.png File:Spore Blossom (base texture) JE1.png          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.
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 Updated texture of hanging roots. | |||||
| 21w07a |      Added textures for deepslate, chiseled deepslate, deepslate bricks, polished deepslate and deepslate tiles.
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        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. | |||||
| File:Green Concrete Powder (texture) JE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 (texture) JE3.png The texture files for green concrete powder and fully grown nether wart have changed size in this version, however whether this is due to an appearence change is unknown. | |||||
| 21w08a |       Added deepslate ores and smooth basalt.
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 Added deepslate top texture. | |||||
             Updated coal, copper, iron, gold, redstone, lapis lazuli and emerald ore, deepslate, cobbled 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.
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           Updated coal ore, iron ore, diamond ore, deepslate, cobbled deepslate and all deepslate ores textures. | |||||
| 21w11a |     Updated gilded blackstone, snowy grass block, pumpkin and smoker textures. | ||||
| 21w15a |    Added raw iron, raw copper and raw gold blocks.
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    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. | ||||
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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 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. | ||||
| 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. | |||
| 1.15 | 19w39a | Changed the chest texture layout. | |||
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 which 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 officially make it into the game, are not currently included.
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texture Update | 1.0.0 |                                                            File:Lapis Lazuli Block (texture) TU1.png                                                                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. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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 texture for conduits. | ||||
Placeholder textures
This section documents both placeholder textures for errors, and those formerly used for animated blocks.
Prior to the addition of actual animated textures, animations were procedurally generated. Placeholder textures were used for these blocks if the animation could not play. An easy way to see these in action (in some versions)[more information needed] is to enter the game while the game itself is paused (can be done if the window is out of focus when loaded), in which case the placeholder textures will be used.
| Java Edition pre-Classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rd-131655 |  Added a placeholder texture, which would later unintentionally become used in certain situations in-game. | ||||
| Java Edition Classic | |||||
| 0.0.19a | The old textures of water and lava are now used as placeholders. | ||||
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
| 0.31 | 20100128 |  Added two identical gear placeholder textures, presumably one per direction. | |||
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||
| Minecraft Infdev | 20100616 | File:Flowing Water (placeholder texture) JE1 BE1.png File:Flowing Lava (placeholder texture) JE1 BE1.png Placeholder textures for flowing water and lava have been added. | |||
| 20100617-2 |  A placeholder texture for fire has been added.[is this the correct version?] | ||||
| 20100624 |  The fire placeholder texture has changed. The text read "FIRE TEX! HNST", which means "Fire texture! Honest". | ||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.0.1 | Removed the gear placeholder textures. | ||||
| v1.2.0 | preview |  A placeholder texture for nether portals has been added. | |||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.2 | A second copy of fire's placeholder texture has been added. It was used to mark the location of the alternate fire animation, which slightly differs. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.5 | 13w02a | With the new native support for animated textures, placeholder textures are no longer needed. The placeholder textures for water, lava, fire and nether portals have been removed. | |||
| 13w03a |  A missing texture is now automatically generated by the game, being placed in texture atlases. | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w18a |  The missing texture generated has changed. it appears as a magenta and black checkerboard texture using the colors #f800f8 and #000000. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w43a |  The missing texture generated has changed. | |||
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Further info
This article needs cleanup to comply with the style guide. [discuss]
Placeholder fire texture
Placeholder graphics for the fire texture were found in terrain.png, which was overwritten in VRAM with the true fire texture. The initial state of this texture was a vaguely flame-like red and orange scribble, but was later replaced with its second texture, a red square which read: "FIRE TEX! HNST", which means "Fire texture! Honest". It was replaced by the actual fire animation in 1.5. [more information needed]
A second copy was added to terrain.png in Beta 1.2, as fire now had two variant textures which would be variously applied depending on coordinates, this can be seen today in the fact that fire has two different texture files (fire_0.png and fire_1.png).
Initial Texture
Revision
Old lava and water textures
The old lava and water textures from Alpha could be found in terrain.png. The textures were replaced by different lava and water animations in 1.5.
- Old lava (Removed Features).png
Old lava.
- Old water (Removed Features).png
Old water.
Unused textures
Main article: Java Edition history of textures § Unused textures