When spawning falling sand entities through command blocks with the /summon command using water or lava block ids, the entity is not rendered. In previous versions this would render the whole water/lava block instead (which could be used for things like spraying fountains). Lastly, water/lava is spawned when landing, the falling sand entity just isn't rendering.
command I was using ( /summon FallingSand 12.5 67 -5.5 {TileID:8,Time:1,DropItem:0,Motion:[0.0,0.7,0.2]} )
WAI. MC-64222