A library I built in earlier 1.14 snapshots and completed by Pre-Release 2 functioned perfectly by having glowstone under lecterns as a way to hide light sources.
After updating to Pre-Release 3, if the lecterns are interacted with at all, they start blocking the light source underneath them.
In my case, this totally wrecks how they previously functioned for me up until this point and I'm honestly not sure how to relight this area to make it safe again.
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I'm aware of that being the case on SOME blocks, yeah. But like... It worked YESTERDAY just fine. Not sure why the need to change the lectern lighting rules from Prerelease 2 to Prerelease 3...??
Being able to hide lights in creative ways is kind of a feature of Minecraft that shouldn't really be harshly restricted or it starts turning large survival builds into torch spam (literally what I'm having to do until these lecterns work again).
Also, by this logic, carpets should not allow light through, having completely covered the light source... but they still do.
That would be MC-139435.
Wait, so carpet is actually a candidate to be adjusted, too? That's... That's going to make a LOT of people mad, I think. lol
Kinda taking away established creative methods that've long been established by the community.
That has literally been a lighting method for years at this point.
I'd really hope we aren't going to be forced to spam torches everywhere! I mean, lanterns are nice and all, but they're hardly a replacement. It's not like anything casts light down to the ground without severe drop-off so you gotta spam the stuff.
...Also, I literally have entire hundreds-of-blocks-wide chambers that are entirely spruce trapdoor ceilings covering thousands of jack-o-lanterns with no visible lights besides a few ornamental lanterns... Aaaand I tend to light my underground with thousand-block-wide expanses of jack-o-lanterns covered with carpet. I do hope 1.14 isn't going to give me hell in that regard. lol
Anyway, not trying to sound combative. I'm just... confused as to why such things are worthy of "nerfing" after being a feature for so long... resulting in tightening the leash on creativity, as it were.
My comment from MC-139459: