Tutorials/Update suppression

Update suppression is the practice of forcing the game to skip block updates. This works by causing enough block updates in a single tick to cause a stack overflow in a way that doesn't crash the game. Update suppression has potential applications for portal slicing, block duplication, controlled crashing, and placing blocks in otherwise impossible locations, such as a sign or torch floating in mid-air, or a flower on non-dirt-based blocks.

With the changing of update order in Java Edition 22w11a, update suppression was "fixed". This was intended as was resolved as "Works As Intended". Nevertheless, the change was reverted in 22w12a and a separate but related bug report,, showed that the "bug" was fixed in this snapshot.