Missing textures and models

Missing texture
The missing texture is a texture used by Minecraft for handling cases where a suitable texture cannot be found. Outside of its use in missing models, this is almost always due to a texture being referenced which simply does not exist under that name.

The texture uses a prominent black and magenta  checkerboard,  in order to stand out as much as possible in most cases. Using bright colors is industry standard, and black and magenta is employed by other game development studios, notably Valve.

The texture is not intended to appear in vanilla gameplay, and cases where it does are due to misconfigured resource packs.

In Java Edition 1.17.1, the only way to make it appear without using a resource pack is by using commands to summon a panda eating a spyglass.

List of occurrences in vanilla

 * "Vanilla" is defined as the game with no non-default texture packs or resource packs installed, as well as without mods.
 * This section only covers cases where the texture arises due to a texture being absent or invalid. Cases where the texture appears due to a model being absent or invalid are documented in the missing model subsection.

Missing texture


The missing texture is a texture used in place of any block, item or entity that doesn't have a valid texture or use a flawed model. If a file for a texture does not exist in any resource pack, including the default, it falls back to the missing texture. This may also appear in place of a texture for objects that no longer exist. For example, leaves harvested in Minecraft alpha will appear to have this texture in newer releases of the game. This texture appears as a magenta and black checkerboard texture using the colors and.

Blocks and other situations where the missing texture was used (without the involvement of mods, resource packs or data packs of any kind) are as follows:


 * Many unused data values of blocks during 1.8's development prior to their removal
 * Wood in one 1.8 snapshot
 * Active jukeboxes in one 1.8 snapshot
 * Wheat crops in one 1.8 snapshot
 * Upwards facing dispensers in one 1.8 snapshot
 * 8 snow layers in one 1.8 snapshot
 * Nether wart crops in one 1.8 snapshot
 * Smooth stone (and possibly smooth sandstone and quartz) in one 1.8 snapshot
 * The end portal block if obtained as an item in 1.8's development prior to its removal
 * The lit furnace if obtained as an item in the versions leading to its removal
 * Invalid data value items from circa 1.8-1.9 up to their removal in 1.13
 * Was used as the particles for end portal blocks and end gateways up to around 1.13
 * Some data values of bells used it prior to side attachments being fully added
 * Piglins wearing turtle shells would have a missing texture until the prereleases
 * Is used as the particles for pandas when eating spyglasses (not sure if this requires a data pack to be seen)