Heavy Core cannot be oriented despite its blockstates suggesting otherwise
While the Heavy Core has blockstates, it visually cannot be oriented in any direction.
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Heavy Core cannot be oriented despite its blockstates suggesting otherwise
While the Heavy Core has blockstates, it visually cannot be oriented in any direction.
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This is a duplicate of MC-269356.
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This may be considered a change request, considering the fix for MC-269356 was removing the previous orientation state of the heavy core altogether.

It actually can be rotated in the NESW directions but all of the sides are the same. It cannot be orientated Up and Down
The blockstate JSON states otherwise - it only has a default model, with no state-based rotations.
{ "model": "minecraft:block/heavy_core" }{
"variants": {
"":
}
}
Yeah I noticed this too, and the way it's coded made me think that it was an intended feature maybe to add something in the future because it has a bunch of different orientations that I don't think exist in other blocks.
It has all the same rotations as a crafter, yet displays identical for all twelve orientations.