Mob heads and skulls, signs, (Ender) chests and End Portals disappear when moving more than 63 blocks away.
Steps to reproduce:
Place mob heads or chests
Walk or fly 63 blocks away
Maybe related to MC-1616
Related issues
is duplicated by
MC-4481
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weird bug
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Banners not showing within render distance
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Beds are invisible from 64 blocks away
MC-144305
banners disappear when moving further away
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if you put down a banner it will no longer be visible from 65 blocks away
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Shulkers have issues
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Chests "disappear" in the distance.
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Chests will disappear in a certain distance
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Decorated pots do not render when viewed from far away
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relates to
MC-149643
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MC-121134
Lightning bolts are invisible from ~150+ blocks above their target
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Lightning Bolts do not appear if they are more than 95 blocks away from the player.
MC-122532
Beds still use the block entity for special rendering, rather than block models
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Does the same effect apply to signs and item frames? Entities like these disappear before blocks do as they are considered 'dynamic' and therefore take more processing space. It is as if rendering is done in gradient to avoid lag.
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confirmed with chests as well. Since both are entities.
kumasasa
Ender chests too.
New screenshots attached.
kumasasa
Does not apply to all blocks with an tile entity, so furnaces, dispensers, nether portals and so on remain visible, but the book on the enchantment table is also invisible at > 63 blocks.
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No, when I mention an 'entity' I refer usually to a tile entity that does not occupy the block mechanic. That is, although a furnace is a tile entity, signs etc. disappear first because they are not 'blocks'. However I have also observed that tile entities such a heads, signs, item frames, chests and not tile entities such as end portals and vines (although vines have no metadata except for orientation) render first before other blocks.
Jens Bergensten
It works like this for performance reasons