[SUGGESTION] Senior Staff Create No-Build-Mode Regions Around End Crystal Towers

I was on SMP7 and Slvr mentioned in chat that they were annoyed because they had trouble killing the Ender Dragon, due to grief protected blocks on the End Towers. They said that the iron bars around the crystal were protected (meaning someone broke them and placed them again for some reason, I assume). This presented an issue because they found it difficult to destroy the crystals as all around the crystals were protected.

This doesn't make sense to me at first because I thought that they reset when the spawned. But then again, I am not too familiar on how the spawning works, and I trust that this must have been really annoying.

I certainly do not have the most expertise in this section, as I do not know what is in place with the anti-grief system already but...

Nevertheless, I suggest that the Senior Staff (or Devs, or Community Managers ) create regions around the top of the End Towers that stop all anti-grief build protection from being placed. However, this may not even be required if it is just a bug fix that is in order. (If it is, I apologise for posting in the wrong section).

Thanks for reading! c:

~Jack

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To describe what I was experiencing: a few of the iron bars had been replaced, which is a natural reaction I suppose when a player breaks a block like that. I don't always keep the iron bars in singleplayer worlds even, and I replace them simply because I don't want them. My thinking is that perhaps iron bars are automatically protected by the anti-grief system, and the regenerated iron bars don't override this. This leaves the buildmode'd iron bars in place.

crystaldragon13 came and helped out on SMP8 so there they should all be free to be broken, but I'm sure similar issues are around on the other smps.

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Whether done intentionally or not, custom server features should not be allowed to restrict us from normal game play in areas like this that we have to share. I'd like to see this fixed as well.

As long it is just in that part(and not bellow the iron bars) +1

the smp8 arena stairs to the crystals would get not protection then...

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I checked, bars are indeed automatically protected because they're one of those automatically protected blocks. So it sounds like a good idea to disallow players to place any blocks there.

If you do that, it means that stuff like the Wild End Dragon Slaying Arena will no longer be protected.
EDIT:Why not just make the top of each end tower into a residence that has only kill flag enabled? I think end crystals count as entities so that why you can still knock them out?

Frostyminerpete's example is from SMP8, but I agree. Making the entire End island unable to be protected sounds like it'd be quite detrimental to the builds already there...

And I do like the idea of making the area atop the pillars a tiny residence area, with very specific flags. That seems fair, and works, right? Unless it's impossible to make those ignore Y values... in which case harvesting obsidian from the End pillars becomes a thing of the past...

Just have build : destroy on and not build : place (or whatever it is) if they can't make residences ignore Y values.

That's an interesting issue, I'm curious to see how this will be solved.

I don't particularly care how it is done, but I would love to see this fixed

The problem being discussed is not people deliberately blocking the crystals, rather simply placing the iron bars back down, unintentionally blocking anyone from going in as the bars are auto protected.

This is amazing idea +9999