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Falling blocks can have their appearance updated

Right now, the falling block entity will not change it's appearance when it's block value is updated. So if the block is sand and I change it to stone, it'll still appear like sand until it lands.

Why is this important? 

Falling blocks give mapmakers, datapack makers, ect, to play with blocks in ways never seen before. 

Remember the aether mod?

It had an ore that could fall upwards, creating an interesting mining challenge. Something like this would be easily possible in vanilla with this update. 

Isn't this a glitch?

No. It's been reported to the bug tracker before and is not technically classed as a bug. 

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• September 04, 2019 05:38
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  • May 17, 2021 08:14
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  There is a way around this: you need to teleport the falling block into loaded chunks (use the /forceload command for loading chunks) far away from the player and then teleport it back. The client will reload the entity and use the correct texture/model.