Placeholder texture

A placeholder block is a block or texture used in place of another block or texture that is missing.

info_update


info_update are a set of two similar debugging/placeholder blocks exclusive to Bedrock Edition that generate in place of blocks that were removed or not yet added.

These blocks are placed in the world when the game detects an invalid block ID.

The block's texture is shared by reserved6.

Missing Texture Block


The Missing Texture Block is a texture used in place of any block that doesn't have a valid texture. If a file for a texture does not exist in any resource pack, including the default, it falls back to the Missing Texture Block. 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.

The name is perhaps a misnomer, as there exists no actual "missing texture block"; it is merely a visual result of a missing, undefined or flawed model.

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:


 * The locked chest after the retiring of terrain.png
 * 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'a 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
 * Was the texture used by the top of the beehive in one 1.15 snapshot
 * 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)

Reserved6


Reserved6 is an unused former placeholder block. It acted as a placeholder block for fire between and, due to a bug in fire spreading mechanics that caused fire to spread to any block. Before becoming unused, the block was called .name and it had the texture of a stone block.