Tried to place a barrel and the game crashed, with the following error

"The game crashed whilst rendering block entity
The game crashed whilst rendering block entity
Error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot get property bry{name=facing, clazz=class ex, values=[north, south, west, east]} as it does not exist in Block{minecraft:barrel}"

After re-opening the game and going back into that world, it was fine, and I was able to place the barrel in the same place without issue.