Minecraft wiki entry for Textures, associated text: The textures of the blocks in Minecraft are usually done in 16 x 16 pixels. Some blocks have an animated texture like water, lava, portal blocks, fire, prismarine, sea lantern, sea grasses, command block and magma blocks as well as stonecutter which have an animated pattern on each side. The animated textures are presented with a series of 16 x 16, the play of which will alternate in succession.