Revised description by @unknown
Since updating to 1.2.13, crops can only be planted continuously in consecutive blocks in a straight line, similar to how solid blocks can only be placed that way, and most take longer to plant than before. Previously, crops could be rapidly spam-planted anywhere on suitable ground by holding the Use control, and if you went too fast and missed a block you could go back and fill in the hole later. Now you must plant them strictly in rows and usually at a slower pace than normal walking speed. The only crops that seem to plant at walking speed are sugar canes, cocoa beans, and perhaps nether wart.
Steps to reproduce:
Select any crop and prepare a rectangular area suitable for growing it on.
Attempt to fill the prepared area with the seed, root, etc. for the crop by holding the Use control.
Use various speeds and directions of motion and observe the sequence in which planting occurs.
Expected results:
When moving at normal walking speed, every suitable selected block gets a plant until you select an unsuitable block, release the Use control, or run out of seeds..
Observed results:
The first block gets a plant. A second plant is placed only in an adjacent block. Subsequent plants are placed only in the next adjacent block in the same direction. For most plants, there is a delay in placing a plant that prevents continuous planting at normal walking speed.
Original description:
So you added feature in update
"Gameplay
Crops can once again be harvested continuously"
Before update can grow continuously, but now can't anymore, need to grow each crop separate.
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So I m ok with what you said but actually don t work.
I tested it with all seeds in direction straigth and parallel, crop 1 and nothing after. I have all my seeds farm on 2x20 rows and actually don t work.
I can record it on xbox but how to see you I m press button for proof ?
I don't have an Xbox and I don't know what it's like to use an Xbox controller, so perhaps it works differently on Xbox than on a PC. In any case, the moderator who reports this to the developers will take notice of your original description and both our comments, so the issue will be looked at from both viewpoints.
I can confirm that this is an issue. With the last update it's a lot harder to plant things even when you only plant in a single row. You used to be able to have a farm where you ran across a bunch of farm land in front of dispensers with bonemeal now that doesn't work.
Most of my farms that I need to use manually are broken now. You can't even feed cows continually with holding to a button anymore. It's really killing my leather farm and my sheep farm.
Ok so after many try was really slow, and work only in one line row. Each direction different of the row will stop planting. So if you have little farm ok but for peoples like me who have like 100 seed to plant, now it's quicker to spam place button than hold it ... So it's really annoying please fix it !
I'm playing in 1.5.0.4.
I'm able to plant continuously, but only walking forward on the 1 row. But it stops when you walk over a block that's already planted, and. You have to aim just right.
Affected 1.5.2, for more information MCPE-35857
Note that this bug is a different issue from the one reported in MCPE-35857. I will post a comment in that bug as well.
This bug is reporting a problem with planting direction, not walking speed. The bug here was that you could only walk, say, North and plant a continuous row. You could not walk in a Z-pattern or anything other than a straight line. It has nothing to do with skipping occasional plantings when walking.
For what it is worth, the issue reported in this bug appears to have been fixed as of 1.5.0 1.5.1. I can plant in any direction I want, walking in a Z-pattern or randomly and a plant will be placed in any farmland block the cursor crosses (mostly - see the completely different bug MCPE-35857).
I think this bug here can be marked Resolved, but MCPE-35857 cannot (as of 1.5.2).
Resolved as fixed.
Keep in mind that this report is about:
not being able to continuosly plant crops without releasing the use button.
the behavior that crops could only be planted in rows (without releasing the use button).
For the issue with the crop placement speed, please see MCPE-35857.
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Crops can still be planted continuously, but there seem to have been some changes that limit it and make it more difficult. You must now plant in rows (you can no longer "paint" the crops all over a rectangular space), in consecutive blocks, and most plants take a little longer to be planted so you can't walk continuously as you do it. If you miss a block, planting is interrupted, but if you continue to hold down the Use control and return to the missed block, the planting will resume. I have updated your summary and description to accurately reflect the new behavior.