There is no Chest-breaking animation (since Beta 1.7). Might be a small bug, but its annoying and should not be that much work to fix 😉
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I would love to see this fixed it drives me insane not knowing how far along i am breaking it same with signs
Torabi
Duplicate of MC-676.
Yup, can confirm this. Little bit annoying but not gamebreaking.