Enhanced Block Entities Guide: Sign Text Distance, Christmas Chests, and Resource Pack Options

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Enhanced Block Entities replaces the standard rendering of several block types with pre-built models and gives you control over sign text distance, holiday chest textures, and resource pack behavior.

How to Use the Options

Every setting listed here is adjusted through the mod's interface. Hovering your cursor over an option shows a description of what it does, so you can check the effect of anything before changing it. Some options also have a corresponding hotkey; if so, assign it yourself in the controls menu rather than assuming a default.

Enhanced Block Models

Each block type has its own toggle. Turning one on switches that block to a baked model, which cuts down rendering work when many of them are present and lets you spot them from much greater distances. If a block becomes invisible because another mod also touches it, switch that toggle off.

Enhanced Chests — baked chest models.
Enhanced Signs — baked sign models plus smart handling of sign text.
Enhanced Bells — fully baked bell models.
Enhanced Beds — baked bed models.
Enhanced Shulker Boxes — baked shulker box models.
Enhanced Decorated Pots — baked decorated pot models. Turn this off if pots vanish or if pottery patterns from other mods stop displaying correctly.

Smooth Lighting Toggles

These add smooth lighting and ambient occlusion to the enhanced models. Each one only works when its matching enhanced block option is already on.

Smooth Chest Lighting
Smooth Sign Lighting
Smooth Bell Lighting
Smooth Bed Lighting
Smooth Shulker Box Lighting
Smooth Decorated Pot Lighting

Christmas Chest Textures

This setting controls the seasonal chest appearance and needs Enhanced Chests enabled. It has three states:

Allowed — the holiday texture appears only from December 24th through the 26th.
Forced — the holiday texture is used at all times.
Disabled — the holiday texture is never used.

Sign Text Rendering Distance

This determines how far away sign text is drawn and requires Enhanced Signs enabled. Pick the mode that matches your performance needs:

Smart — the limit is worked out automatically from how many signs are currently being drawn.
All — every sign inside block entity render distance attempts to draw text. This is very demanding on performance.
Most — signs within 50 blocks of the block entity render distance attempt to draw text.
Some — signs within 30 blocks attempt to draw text.
Few — signs within 20 blocks attempt to draw text. This gives the best performance.

Experimental Features

These turn on early rendering behavior for certain blocks, including particle textures that are generated in a special way so resource packs can affect them. Expect rough edges.

Experimental Chests
Experimental Beds
Experimental Signs

Resource Pack Compatibility

Force Resource Pack Compatibility is the option to switch on when blocks turn invisible while a resource pack is active. Do not combine it with packs built specifically for this mod. If problems persist after enabling it, report them.

Dump Example Resources writes the mod's built-in resources into a dump folder so resource pack creators have a reference to work from.

Where the Settings Live

The options are grouped under Block Entity Settings, with dedicated sections for Shulker Box Options and Decorated Pot Options.