[MC-676] Signs and chests do not display cracking animation

Torabi, yep — chests used to be rendered as normal blocks. This changed in β1.8 (Adventure Update) which gave them an opening-lid animation and made them slightly smaller than full blocks.

Aden McKinley 2012-11-07T21:54:41Z

yeah this is an old bug and i would like to see it fixed

Richard Collins 2013-01-12T18:23:14Z

I don't care if they've changed and that's why it doesn't have the animation, I want the animation back to make it look better.

17 more comments

[Crispy] PokeCanada 2013-01-12T18:24:05Z

This isn't an bug. Like Kevin said, the chests were full blocks before 1.8. Since then, they are considered transparent blocks now and can't display breaking animations.

[Crispy] PokeCanada 2013-01-12T18:24:30Z

Java just won't allow it.

Torabi 2013-01-12T18:50:59Z

That's ridiculous. Of course Java will allow it, just like it allows the lid-opening animation. The programming language itself is rarely a limitation. The question is just how much work it will take to make it work with the rest of the code.

Pixelgraph 2013-01-13T10:05:35Z

The reason is signs and chests are not actually blocks but tile entities. And entities don't naturally display cracks.

Kevin Reid 2013-01-13T17:13:38Z

Sure. I could retitle this bug “Tile entities should be capable of displaying the breaking animation”, but I think it's better to describe the end result, not the implementation.

Anon Ymus 2013-03-14T03:23:45Z

Confirmed.

Anon Ymus 2013-05-26T20:49:47Z

It is definitely a size problem, not a tile entity issue. Mob spawners and furnaces work just fine.

fake fakes 2013-06-13T17:47:47Z

Still in 13w24a

GoodKingFilms 2013-10-26T18:30:36Z

Still in 1.7.2 and also with CocaBeans

KnightMiner 2014-01-19T14:08:20Z

Signs did have a breaking animation recently, though it was entirely due to a bug. See MC-32082. I think it is a problem of the way the block renders, from a sheet or in pieces.

KnightMiner 2014-01-30T17:05:49Z

Still in 14w05a

KnightMiner 2014-02-14T17:47:24Z

Partially fixed in 14w07a.
Signs and Chests have no animation
Cocoa Beans and Beacons have the animation

KnightMiner 2014-02-19T14:51:10Z

Still in 14w08a

KnightMiner 2014-03-06T21:05:39Z

Still in 14w10a/b
Also in 14w10c

user-f2760 2014-03-07T22:36:22Z

that's because they don't get the textures from the blocks dictory like all other blocks do, signs and chest textures are under the entity's dictory and have the complete block in 1 png instead of 1 side of the block in 1 png like all other blocks

Itouch2 2014-03-22T17:15:48Z

Confirmed for 14w11b

Itouch2 2014-04-24T16:23:06Z

Confirmed for 14w17a

Itouch2 2014-04-30T12:19:44Z

Confirmed for 14w18a

Jeuv 2014-07-09T20:41:56Z

Confirmed for 14w28a.

Andrew Thomas 2014-07-10T14:59:09Z

Is there any way we can get a Mojang employee to confirm whether this is a bug or a Works as Intended?

Also, confirmed for signs, chests, and trapped chests in 14w28b

Itouch2 2014-07-10T15:03:38Z

Confirmed for 14w28b

kumasasa 2014-07-27T11:40:20Z

Banners are not showing breaking animation: MC-63509