There are a lot of deprecated methods in the Block class (and probably elsewhere, too) that I would consider standard functionality (Compare IInventory which should be deprecated but isn't). The methods are just annotated with @Deprecated, no explanation in their JavaDoc or in a comment is given as to why it would be deprecated (JavaDocs even have a special field for that). I would very much value an explanation as to why they are deprecated, and potentially a non-deprecated replacement. So