Registries

Almost everything in Minecraft uses the same format for identifying a particular type, such as minecraft:stone. This is known as a namespaced ID (see page for details). WorldEdit keeps some registries that allow access to blocks, items, biomes, entities, fluids, and more from the current Minecraft platform using their ID in a platform-independent way.

These registries are available on most classes named *Type, such as BlockType and ItemType. However, it is recommended to use the *Types classes instead, which either provide potentially-null constants or a get method for retrieving types that aren’t built-in, such as modded blocks.

Note

The constants on these registries may be null because the API does not change across Minecraft versions, and this means that some blocks won’t exist on earlier Minecraft versions, or like in 1.13, were renamed from their ID in 1.12 and WorldEdit no longer recognizes the block properly. If you require a block, you should wrap the access to the constant in Objects.requireNonNull or a similar check to properly communicate that you do not expect the constant to be missing at runtime.