The placeholder blocks (also called substitution blocks) are tan, brown, and blue. The tan block is the placeholder block, the brown is the solid placeholder block, and the blue is the fluid placeholder block. Each serves its own function.
All kinds of placeholder blocks can be crafted at the Sawmill .
You can make and use these blocks in survival, but they are mainly used to scan schematics.
The regular placeholder is the most common placeholder block, it is essentially a "keep what is already here" placeholder.
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The solid placeholder is mostly used for foundations of buildings, these will place a solid block in case there is a non solid block there.
When the Builder is responsible for placing a solid block, it will use the Fill Block defined in the Builder's Hut it's GUI.
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The fluid placeholder is intended for setting up fluid in schematics. The fluid placeholder will place the preferred fluid for the given dimension (i.e. water in overworld, lava in the nether, etc.). If there are already blocks in place of the fluid placeholder, they will stay there.
Be careful when using fluid placeholders next to waterlogged blocks when schematics are intended to be placed in the nether. This can cause the waterlogged blocks to come into contact with lava and create cobblestone/stone/obsidian.
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