RainWarrior

<blockstate> == {
  "forge_marker": 1,
  "defaults": <variant>, // optional, added to all variants
  "variants": {
    "<property>": {
    "<value>": <variant> // variant definition for the specified value of this property; variants for multiple values can be specified.
  },
    "<variant name>": <variant>, // variant definition for the full variant string
    "<variant name>": [<variant1>, ...], // array of definitions for the full variant - result will be the random variant
  }

williewillus

1.9.4 TE Syncing

Only accurate for 1922+

When the chunk/block data is sent (client receiving chunks from server):

• getUpdateTag() called serverside to get compound to sync
• handleUpdateTag() called to handle it clientside
• what vanilla does
• Writes ALL data into this tag by calling writeToNBT