Steps to reproduce
Step 1. Make basic farmland.
Step 2. Make sure there is no light.
Step 3. Try to plant a seed or any plantable items.
Observed results.
It won't let me place a plantable item. Even when there is light it is sometimes not even able to plant a plantable item.
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We're tracking this issue in MC-914, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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Seeds needing light to exist is not a bug, but intentional design. This was even a bug fix years ago as previously placing seeds in darkness would pop them off after a neighboring block change (eg planting other seeds).
See MC-914.