I have a survival realm, and I’m creating a museum which requires a lot of books and signs, and most of what I type gets censored to ###. For instance, I wrote a hanging sign that said “Café Clay” in bold. The front wrote fine, but when I tried to write on the back, the formatting cleared on that side, and the front was censored to #######. After multiple attempts, I could not get both sides to say “Café Clay”. I also have signs in the museum with player usernames on them, and I cannot write them with other text and have it not censor. Nothing I am writing is inappropriate, and the profanity filter is switched off. In fact, I can type actual profanity, and it doesn't censor! I also tried writing books, and they will periodically erase completely before I’m done writing. Not sure if I’m just doing something wrong, but its frustrating regardless and should work better. A friend on the realm had an issue with censoring in books.
In a single player creative world, the issues are not present.
I have attached videos of each of my problems. While these were recorded on my mac, I have the exact same issues on iOS and iPadOS.
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I'm using bedrock, and I access the realm on multiple devices. All with the same issues. I'm using iOS, iPadOS, and the unofficial linux launcher for MacOS.
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I noticed the same. I created a trading hall for my German family and wanted to write “Durchbohren” but that is censored and I don’t get it. So it’s the only sign that now is in English with “Impaling” and my sons think I’m stupid.
Another person posted the same issue: REALMS-14381
My players and I are having the same issue on my realm.
Player one is on an Apple device and all lines of text they input into books change to #### as soon as the book is closed and opened again.
Player two is on a Nintendo and the last line of text glitches to ###, except when creating a second page of text which makes the entire first page switch to ###.
I (Microsoft Windows) am seeing intermittent glitches in my books, some numbers and letters are switching to ###.
None of this looks like censoring; we’re just logging coordinates of cool places around the world and the numbers are being censored. We also tested this with a full alphanumeric input and got the same results.
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It is seemingly everything, with no rhyme or reason. I recommend looking at the three videos I posted, that is the best way to explain it. Anything that doesn’t censor though, the formatting clears. Like if you want to only type in the middle two lines of a sign (like many people do), after exiting the sign, all words will be pushed to the top, as if all returns were deleted. Bolding clears as well. If you have a realm, it should be easy top replicate this issue without a list of words, just spend three minutes using any sign or book.
Hi, its been a while and I’d like to provide an update. They have clearly worked on the issue, because the problem has improved significantly, but it is NOT FIXED. An issue I’ve had consistently is the word “Hallington”, a town in my world. It will always censor the entire sign, and I’ve been forced to write “Halington” instead. I’ve also had an issue with the word North being censored, as shown below.
In a realm where there are many towns and lore elements to write, this issue is very annoying. I wish there was an option to completely disable censoring of any kind, as everyone on my realm is over 18.
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