Tile Entities and Blocks Metadata

[Texasjake95]

Is it possible to extend the block metadata by using tile entities? And if it is where would I be able to find out how to do it?

 

EDIT: Been doing some reading on tile entities and it looks like I don't want to do this because it would take more and more memory to do something like this so I am going to stick with the standard 0-15 block meta (for now)

 

Although I would still like to know how to do this if just in case the need to do this ever arises...

[QuantumLeaf7895]

While yes, you can save additional data in blocks using tile entities, I'm not sure what you plan on 'extending' the metadata for.  Importantly, blocks in your inventory do not have associated tile entities, meaning that all tile-entity data is lost when the block is harvested.