Ghosts blocks have been a issue for a while. but its gotten worse in the pre-release. Theyve been appearing more often with a fast flying machine in this version. heck even the ghost blocks affected the
Flying machine.
While facing this problem I noticed observers don't update as fast as it does in 1.12.2
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Its possible it's just my computer. However I have seen ghost blocks appear on servers.