I was wondering what a beacon's beam is or what it's made of. (e. g. Is it an entity etc.) and how I can have a beacon beam without a beacon.
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Beacon beams are specially rendered… things, which don't fall into any category like "entity" or "particle", just like crystal beams or the lines of fishing rods and leashes.
You cannot have a beacon beam without a beacon. Not even having a beacon tile entity without a beacon block works, it just gets deleted. The closest you can get to it is retexturing the beacon block to be invisible.
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