(Java Parity) Flattening for bedrock

In 1.13, Java Edition underwent a "flattening" of blocks and items. The intent of this was to make these more extensible and eliminate magic number "data values" in favor of unique items and block states. It fixed a host of bugs and inconsistent behavior related to data values. These changes should come to bedrock as well.

In general, the following changes should be made:
- eliminate data values for items entirely
- keep "damage" for tools and armor
- in other cases, create a new item (e.g. dye:5 → purple_dye)
- eliminate data values for blocks in favor of block states
- when block states correspond to different items, create a new block instead (e.g. stone[variant=granite] → granite)

The syntax of commands like /setblock should be updated to remove data values in favor of block states. Commands like /give should remove the data value portion altogether. Command blocks could theoretically be updated automatically.

The extent of the changes is specified here:

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/User:FVbico/Flattening_For_Bedrock

tryashtar commented

March 04, 2019 23:34
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The fact that 1.11 contains IDs such as stone_slab4 is very strong evidence that this needs to be done very soon.

GruveXp ' commented

December 23, 2019 17:03
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I don't even understand the commands for bedrock. The command system and block system is very bad, and you almost cant do anything with commands, and there is no /data to check for blockstates. The flattening and better command system is needed for bedrock. Until that is done, I will play on java edition.

justinhooker1 commented

April 01, 2020 20:53
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YES, PLEASE!! I like Bedrock Edition fine but boy is it hard to use things like /fill or /setblock because of the weird layout.

NOTICE

(Java Parity) Flattening for bedrock

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