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MC-31365

/summon and /setblock cannot specify chests, furnaces, dispensers, rails and droppers orientation

Using the /summon or /setblock command to spawn a dropper or a dispenser works but data tags cannot be used to specify the orientation.

To replicate:
Create a command block containing any of the following commands:

setblock ~2 ~ ~ minecraft:dropper 1 replace
summon FallingSand ~2 ~ ~ {Time:1,TileID:158,Data:1}

Both will spawn a dropper facing in the default direction of South, regardless of the value of Data (if placed against a wall the dropper will adjust to face away from the wall). Applying the data for repeaters, hoppers and comparators work fine.

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kumasasa

Confirmed

Brad Gray

I can confirm this as well and would really like this to be fixed. Very frustrating.

WolfieMario

Confirmed for 13w41a.

Sparks

Bug still persists in 13w43a

WolfieMario

Confirmed for 1.7.

WolfieMario

Confirmed in 1.7.1.

Cole Schutzman

Still present in 1.7.2

Skylinerw

Confirmed for snapshots 13w47a/b/c.

trazlander

Duplicate of https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MC-12437

Hey took nearly 20k tickets for it to get run into and reported again. I feel proud about that! This was happening back with redstone-activated spawners, pretty crazy that it affects /summon and /setblock too. Glad it's finally getting some more attention. I really hate this bug 😛

WolfieMario

I would say leave this open until it's possible to transfer the 11 votes plus Confirmation status over. This ticket's significantly more active/progressed.

Howzieky

hey guys, vote for this issue and it will get more attention from mojang!

WolfieMario

Confirmed for 1.7.4.

Jason Webb

yes, also confirmed 1.7.4

Skylinerw

Confirmed for 14w02c

qmagnet

Confirmed for 14w02c

harry boskamp

Confirmed for 14w04b

Tom Loher

Confirmed for 14w04a

qmagnet

Confirmed for 14w05a

qmagnet

Confirmed for 14w05b

Torabi

As per MC-42375, this also appears to affect rails.

qmagnet

Confirmed for 14w06a

Skylinerw

Confirmed for 14w06b as well.

Tangent65536

Confirmed for 14w07a.

Paint

Confirmed for 14w08a.

herboy8

Confirmed for Minecraft 1.7.5.

Wojciech Drzymała

The problem shows still in 14w10c.
Used command:

setblock 11 45 87 chest 2 replace {Items:[{Slot:0b,id:torch}]}

And its' facing is 3 instead of 2. (It's 3 everytime).

Jonathan Eshom

It's still in the 14w11b snapshot as well. It makes it impossible to place single standing dispensers in the correct orientation.

QwertyuiopThePie

I'd recommend using /clone as a temporary measure til this gets fixed. It seems to use the right direction.

Jonathan Eshom

That would probably work for now. Thank you for the tip No Way.

EscoreFairplay

Confirmed 14w11b

asdf

Still present in 14w17a.

asdf

Clone does not respect orientation with rails. There seems to be 2 separate issues here, one where the setblock command doesn't respect orientation of some blocks, and one where rail's default behavior is overriding the behavior of the setblock and clone commands.

Quentin C.

Confirmed for 14w18b.

user-f2760

confirmed for 14w19a

Jason Purslow

Still present in 14w26b.

michael

Fixed for all but the rails.

Sparks

michael

Confirmed

/setblock, /summon, block-entity, dispenser, dropper, orientation

Minecraft 13w37a, Minecraft 13w37b, Minecraft 13w38a, Minecraft 13w38b, Minecraft 13w38c, ..., Minecraft 14w17a, Minecraft 14w18b, Minecraft 14w19a, Minecraft 14w21b, Minecraft 14w26b

Minecraft 14w28b

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