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More useful error message than "cannot place blocks outside of the world"

Usually, said error message means the player is trying to use a fill command beyond the rendered area. As is, the message is rather hard to parse, at least for people seeing it for the first time. Could the phasing be changed to be less obtuse while still covering all cases?

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    This is actually a terrible bug and it’s rather annoying.

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    This may be due to a low simulation distance. If you exit your world and see the settings tab before you enter back, it will have something called "chunk simulation distance" which is set at 4 chunks by default. You can change this all the way up to 12 chunks in Windows/Bedrock edition as well as Education edition.

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    This error happens to me way too constantly but even when an area is small it still gives the same error message.

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    The reason you get “Cannot place blocks outside of the world” is probably because /fill in Bedrock sometimes fails when the selected area extends into chunks that aren’t loaded or processed yet. Since chunks are 16×16 blocks, crossing around ±32 blocks can mean the command reaches multiple chunk boundaries and Bedrock returns a misleading error message even though the area is still inside the world.