[MC-68601] /summon FallingSand in execute command summons FallingSand relative to the player's postion

In 14w33 and up, FallingSand that is summoned using an execute command relative to a player, is actually summoned relative to the player (e.g. If the player was standing at x=0.5,z=0.5). This didn't used to happen in the snapshots below this, and causes quite a problem.

The problem with this, is if that a block tries to land on a block, but mostly lands on a block that's an airspace, the block will break and fail to solidify.

In the first picture with stone falling down, you can see the FallingSand entities overlap. These blocks will pop, since they land on only a quarter stone, and 3 quarters air, which means that it will break.

In the picture with the sand riding Item frames, it shows how and why it breaks, and how it sometimes prefers to break on one side rather than the other.

EDIT:
Relative summoning apparently doesn't only affect FallingSand, but also every other summonable entity.

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MC-64188 execute with relative coordinates commands are forced to the center of the X and Z axis of the block the target is in, not the target itself Resolved

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qmagnet 2014-08-21T16:53:46Z

I'm assuming this was the result of fixing MC-64188

Ezekiel 2014-08-21T16:56:10Z

Can I have an example command to work with.

qmagnet 2014-08-21T17:13:16Z

1. Place a fence down
2. Stand against fence and type this command

/execute @a ~ ~ ~ summon FallingSand ~ ~10 ~ {Block:sand,Time:1}

Notice how if you execute command on top of fence or on block beside fence, the drop doesn't occur.

Ezekiel 2014-08-22T14:17:35Z

Thanks

bananenbroek4 2014-08-23T00:56:58Z

The main problem is how the FallingSand doesn't snap on to the nearest block grid, like it did before 14w33a and earlier.

qmagnet 2014-08-23T01:21:57Z

Yeah but before it messed up any other execute. Particle and summoning mobs wasn't accurate.

bananenbroek4 2014-08-23T08:14:01Z

Yes, I have been experiencing that with another project I've been working on.
EDIT: Misread, currently, because of this bug, summoning entities relative to anything, will summon it exactly at those relative location. There is not a single way to make it snap on.

Jamal P. 2014-09-02T00:27:59Z

fix one thing and another breaks... personally i think snapping to midblock was a non-issue...pretty sure that it followed the same rules as teleporting players, in that specifying a decimal value makes it exact, but i never needed to test it.
Still, I just jumped into 14w32d, and in there both FallingSand snaps properly and i was able to make an item summon another (diffrent) item to its exact location... so clearly its not impossible.

The big issue though for me is that Falling sand replacing a block doesn't move to the deleted block's grid location. i don't know if i should list that as a different bug though...

KingSupernova 2015-03-10T01:01:48Z

First off, the fallingsand being summoned at non-integer coordinates is intended, that's how /summon works. The actual bug is that a fallingsand at non-integer coordinates doesn't drop its item. However, this seems to be fixed in 1.8.3