Bukkit

Once in awhile you may come across blocks in your world which disallow the placement or block the flow of water. The purpose of this page is to educate you on how to rid of these.

How They Form

• WorldEdit actions (block sets, cuts, super-pickaxe).
  • They cannot be caught by SpongeRestore, and thus the effective area of sponges placed will not be removed from the database.
• Improper server shutdown. (Should be prevented in v1.6 and on)
  • By default, the SpongeRestore database is saved on every sponge enable/disable event. This means that is saves more often than worlds. If a sponge is placed and the server crashes before the world saves, the database will have registered that sponge, but the world will not longer have the sponge.

Preventing WorldEdit Sponge Issues

It is always recommended to not world-edit any sponges in a SpongeRestore-enabled world. If you need to, and know there are sponges in your selection, use: "/sr disable selection"
This will disable all sponges that are within your WorldEdit cuboidal selection. After a few seconds, world-editing the selection is now safe.
Note: The sponge disabling is done in another thread, so you don't need to worry about lagging everybody on the server.

Removing The Effect When the Sponge Is Not Present

Currently, there is no way to detect where the sponge areas are, other than by testing for where water cannot be placed. But if you know the general location of these areas, you can remove them manually with multiple methods:

1. Using a WorldEdit cuboidal selection.
   • Just use the wand to make a selection around the area and type: "/sr clear selection"
     
   • All sponge effects will then be disabled in that selection area.
2. Wiping all sponge effects in the world.
   • Use the "/sponge clear world <worldname>" command.
   • This will completely remove all sponge effects in that world. (Useful for creative worlds)
3. Clearing the whole sponge effects database.
   • Use the "/sponge clear all" command.
   • This will disable all sponge effects on the server. (Aimed toward smaller servers where the loss of sponge effects is not disastrous)