Ctrl + Pick block on a lectern does not display its book despite being saved to NBT
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Gecolay
[Mojang] Cory Scheviak- 16
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Low
- Block states
- Creative
- book lectern nbt
19w02a - 1.16-pre4
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If you copy a lectern with a book and with its NBT data and place it, it will have no book on them
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If you copy a lectern with a book and with its NBT data andplaceit, it will have no book on themCtrl + Pick block on a lectern does not display its book despite being saved to NBT
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Hmm, I can't find any ticket about ctrl+middle click not copying BlockStateTag, though I feel like one exists. I've linked this as related to MC-87296 and MC-141934 though since they're also about ctrl+middle click not storing states, but I'm going to ask around because I feel like there is a canonical report.
Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-141934, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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When you right-click the lectern, it triggers the has_book state to be set to true once more, accompanied by a hand animation. However, if you're sneaking while holding an item and perform a right-click action, you can make the book reappear without triggering the hand animation. To teleport to the lectern, use the following command:
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s 223.85 71.50 163.57 319.46 43.66
Please note that the lectern's position might change if Mojang introduces more blocks, as is typical in debug worlds. This might be connected to the resolution of MC-141934, but it's not entirely certain.

Likely related to the fact that the lectern has a "has_book" state, though its book is saved within its NBT data and is not dropped when broken.
Still in 1.14 Pre-Release 3
Still affects 1.14 (Release), 1.14.1 Pre-1, and 1.14.1 Pre-2
Still affects the 1.14.1 release
Still affects the 1.14.1 release
It's in 1.14.4
Confirmed fixed in 1.16-pre5