1.8-11.14.3.1450 top part of double plant is missing

[wwrpg]

After Playing 1.8.7 vanilla single player rosebushes and other double plants have both the top and bottom present and visible. All fine now.

But when switching to forge 1.8-11.14.3.1450 (no mods in use yet) the top part of the double plant is missing.

 

If I break it and replant it, then the top part is present again... but the plant is not centered 

 

Same problem occurs if I join a 1.8.7 vanilla server with forge based client.

 

Minor bug, but annoying.

[LexManos]

Sometime in the 1.8 chain post 1.8 they added rotation to tall plants.

That may be causing the issue.

Vanilla 1.8 works on 1.8.7 server?

[wwrpg]

Thanks for the reply. You're right!

Vanilla 1.8 with 1.8.7 server... same problem.

So not a forge bug.

 

And if I do single player 1.8 after creating it as 1.8.7, all the flowers instantly break into entities.

I guess 1.8 isn't really compatible with 1.8.7

[wwrpg]

I guess updating forge to handle the rotation metadata is out of the question.

I see this applies for all Double Plants (minecraft:double_plant Tall Flowers & Tall Grass)

 

I thought maybe I could make a mod to fix this issue and force the client to render the top block, but it looks like the client doesn't seem to ever even attempt to add the top block. Not sure if the server in 1.8.7 was changed to not send the info on the top part or the client is failing to recognize the block data?

 

I guess I'll just wait for forge 1.8.7 / 1.8.8