WorldEdit Blocked Items Review: Items Currently Commented Out

**wild1145** · October 30, 2022 at 12:28 PM Official Post

I'm creating a couple of threads to start a conversation around the block list for our WorldEdit and ASyncWorldEdit. With various changes we've made to the server over the last few years, now feels as good of a time as any to do a bit of a community review of what's blocked and what's not blocked, and if we need to edit the list.

I'd like to see a strong argument either to un-block, re-block, or keep as-is and some strong justification if we want to make changes to the list. Likewise if there's a suggestion to make a change, please have a healthy discussion to help thrash out if it should be changed or not.

The following items are not currently blocked, but are commented out in the configuration file. What I'd like is the community to have a sensible discussion on if these items should remain un-blocked (And if so I'll remove them fully from the config) or if there is any good reason to re-block them.

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#        - "minecraft:anvil"
#        - "minecraft:chipped_anvil"
#        - "minecraft:damaged_anvil"
#        - "minecraft:white_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:orange_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:magenta_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:light_blue_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:yellow_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:lime_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:pink_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:gray_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:light_gray_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:cyan_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:purple_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:blue_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:brown_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:dark_green_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:red_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:black_concrete_powder"
#        - "minecraft:sand"

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characterslimits · October 30, 2022 at 12:31 PM

These blocks should remain unblocked and be completely removed from the blacklist.

Reason: Gravity is disabled and we had no problems with them since we disabled gravity.

keli5 · October 30, 2022 at 12:34 PM

Anvils can have weird performance problems it seems, but I think sand and concrete powder shouldn't be blocked since we don't have gravity, no?

**wild1145** · October 30, 2022 at 12:37 PM Official Post

Quote from characterslimits

Reason: Gravity is disabled and we had no problems with them since we disabled gravity.

Quote from keli5

but I think sand and concrete powder shouldn't be blocked since we don't have gravity, no?

So to both of these, yes Gravity is disabled and the intention will be to keep it disabled going forward.

**Alco_Rs11** · October 30, 2022 at 9:02 PM

Gravity's disabled and all of these blocks can be incredibly useful when building. All the sand and concrete powder should remain unblocked.

Anvils may cause client issues though so they should be investigated further and stay blocked.

**wild1145** · October 30, 2022 at 10:15 PM Official Post

Quote from Alco_Rs11

Anvils may cause client issues though so they should be investigated further and stay blocked.

They are not currently blocked, hence this post.

DragonSlayer2189 · October 31, 2022 at 1:15 PM

Anvils:

Block anvils in WorldEdit | TotalFreedom

They are a horrible source of lag when placed in bulk at one place, and it is often used for trolling. I just had to deal with removing about maybe close to…

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Falling blocks:

Block falling blocks from world edit | TotalFreedom

Although it is useful to have those in world edit, currently many many builds have been griefed and admins weren't able to find the griefer's name, they just…

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I believe these posts are why these were added to the list but proboards is broken for me rn so I can’t read them

Tizz · October 31, 2022 at 5:12 PM

Regarding falling blocks, I now remember they've been logged at their drop location instead of their actual one, regardless of gravity. I haven't checked if the recent changes to the server have made a difference.

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