Some time ago I played survival minecraft with some friends, which I really do not do, since I am more of a technical player who normally spends my time in the game making machines, automation, and Redstone infrastructure. But I needed to use the beacon, and I thought it was confusing. How many blocks do the green pixels represent?

To solve this, I created this resource pack where I separate each layer into each of the blocks you can use to power the beacon, except netherite. It may be too dark to use in the graphical user interface anyway. I also scaled PNG to be able to centre the beam. In the vanilla texture, the middle “blocks” are actually three pixels wide. But in my package I have removed the extra pixels and centred the beam.

It works in 1.16.2 - 1.16.3. It should also work for versions before, because resource packs only depends on the file path and the structure of the files, as for the PNG for the beacon. But if you really want to use it in versions after 1.16.3, I suggest unpacking the package and changing the number in the pack.mcmeta to 7, or 8, or maybe 9. I do not know how they will format the versions in the future. You choose whether you want to repack it.

This is how it is now.
1 for 1.6.1–1.8.9, 2 for 1.9–1.10.2, 3 for 1.11–1.12.2, 4 for 1.13–1.14.4, 5 for 1.15–1.16.1, 6 for 1.16.2–1.16.3, 7 for 1.17.x, 8 for 1.18.x, 9 for 1.19 – 1.19.2, 11 for 22w42a – 22w44a, 12 for 1.19.3, 13 for 1.19.4, 14 for 23w14a – 23w16a, 15 for 1.20 - 1.20.1, 16 for 23w31a, 17 for 23w32a - 23w35a, 18 for 1.20.2 - 23w35a, 19 for 23w42a, 20 for 23w43a - 23w44a, 21 for 23w45a - 23w46a, 22 for 1.20.3-pre1 - 23w51b, and 24 for 24w03a and onwards.

But I have recently added the new feature to the mc.meta where the pack will specify a whole range which the pack works with. Meaning that this resource pack will say it is compatible to many versions at once.