WorldEdit Blocked Items Review: Part 2 Currently Blocked

**wild1145** · October 30, 2022 at 12:31 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 currently blocked, What I'd like is the community to have a sensible discussion on if these items should remain blocked or if there is now suitable justification to allow them to be used by WorldEdit / AWE.

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    - "minecraft:grass"
    - "minecraft:dead_bush"
    - "minecraft:moving_piston"
    - "minecraft:piston_head"
    - "minecraft:sunflower"
    - "minecraft:rose_bush"
    - "minecraft:dandelion"
    - "minecraft:poppy"
    - "minecraft:brown_mushroom"
    - "minecraft:red_mushroom"
    - "minecraft:tnt"
    - "minecraft:torch"
    - "minecraft:wall_torch"
    - "minecraft:fire"
    - "minecraft:redstone_wire"
    - "minecraft:wheat"
    - "minecraft:potatoes"
    - "minecraft:carrots"
    - "minecraft:melon_stem"
    - "minecraft:pumpkin_stem"
    - "minecraft:beetroots"
    - "minecraft:rail"
    - "minecraft:lever"
    - "minecraft:redstone_torch"
    - "minecraft:redstone_wall_torch"
    - "minecraft:repeater"
    - "minecraft:comparator"

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**Alco_Rs11** · October 30, 2022 at 9:01 PM

None of these blocks serve practical uses being worldedited and will simply be used to make troll edits.

- "minecraft:moving_piston" This was blocked for a very good reason. Don't unblock it.

Although you should unblock bonemeal and let OP's use //flora though... Those actually have practical purposes and can permit players to place down grass and other plants.

DragonSlayer2189 · October 31, 2022 at 1:51 PM

All of these (except for TNT) Are non-standard blocks, which require more effort for Minecraft to render than your typical block, it’s not much more effort but in large quantities it can be laggy depending on how good your machine is. Additionally, for almost all of these blocks, updating the bottom layer of blocks in a large selection of them causes all of them to update and break themselves, which can end up causing a significant amount of both client and server lag

As for tnt iirc, if you did like a half redstone block, half tnt type of world edit, it would cause some issues but I don’t really remember

**videogamesm12** · October 31, 2022 at 2:12 PM

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- "minecraft:moving_piston"

Blocked because of a now-patched server crash exploit. Keep it disabled as it can be used to troll players and has no uses outside of what Minecraft uses it internally for.

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- "minecraft:tnt"

TNT doesn't explode. Should be unblocked.

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- "minecraft:fire"

Should be tested, but I don't see why this should be blocked.

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