I know for a fact that you can make Hay Bales, Wood blocks, and Pillar Quartz face a specific direction, but are there any more blocks with this capability? If so, what are they?
Minecraft – What are all the blocks that can face a specific direction in vanilla Minecraft
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Best Answer
In Minecraft, block orientation can be saved as a block's metadata value or some sort of additional data inside a tile entity. There is no standard method to do so, though most blocks use some bits of their metadata value for their orientation. Some of them have different orientations, but it is calculated automatically.
A full list of such data is available at the Minecraft wiki in the "Data Values" article. From the article, the following blocks can have a specific orientation:
Answer written for version: 1.6.2