Can't place pressure plates a few hundred blocks near spawn(0,0) in my world. Found that the problem disappeared after killing the entity at 0,0,0.
Steps to Reproduce:
Place a block at 0,-1,0
Summon an entity at 0,0,0 (Creeper, Boat, etc.)
Try to place pressure plates near 0,0
Observed Results:
Pressure plate cannot be placed
Expected Results:
Pressure plate can be placed
Notes:
The same issue occured in BDS-17496
This is the reason why players cannot place pressure plates while standing at 0,0,0: MCPE-153184
and is related to MCPE-149558
I think this isuue is a unification of the above issues, so I opened a new issue
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This also relates to the player's position. With a chest boat at Y 0 0 0 I could not place pressure plates within -144 < X < 144 and -144 < Z < 144 if I am also within -144 < X < 144 and -144 < Z < 144, but I could place pressure plates inside that region if I stood outside of it.
[media]Duplicate reports give different values for the affected X, Z ranges, so it seems to vary world to world.
A player could trigger this issue by sending a boat through a nether portal due to MCPE-161563, which is exactly what happened to the player reported BDS-17496 and likely what happened to the player reporting MCPE-159712 as well.