BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: The Door Won't Open Fix
A school-club report of a stuck player-built door led to merged PR #2150, closing issues #2145 through #2148. Doorways are now protected from building, jambs require real walls, and doors stay E-only with teaching prompts.
Duration: PT1M56S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
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- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-10-01T04:01:28Z
- Audio duration: PT1M56S
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Hello, it's Thursday, October 1st, 2026.
The lead story is a school-club report — a door won't open in a self-built house on a flower world — which turned out not to be a browser defect, but three ways player-built doors end up stuck shut. The work landed as commit 4aa8689 under pull request 2150, closing four issues.
First theme: doorways are now protected space. The place handler refuses any cell a door fills, whether player-built or stamped, across its three-high opening, before anything is consumed. The same protection extends to ship edits, which now refuse every doorway cell, including the starter hatch. For developers,…
Second, what counts as a wall got stricter. The jamb check for placed doors now accepts only real walls — no flowers, fluids, torches, or other walk-through blocks — and the server and the ghost preview enforce it the same way. That's directly aimed at the flower-world case that started this, where flora looked like…
Third, the interaction model is now explicit and taught. By maintainer decision, doors stay E-only; right-click does not open them. Referenced in issue 2147, right-clicking a closed door now places nothing and shows a prompt explaining how it…
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