Blocks can only be placed in a straight line and at 1 direction when holding the right click button.
If you hold the right click button, blocks start placing, but you can only place them in a straight line and one direction(not the band, the real direction), if you move the cursor somewhere else, it doesn't place it. Here I have a screenshot of torches which i could only place to the left side and in a straight line
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Blocks can only be placed in a straight line and at 1 direction when holding the right click button.
If you hold the right click button, blocks start placing, but you can only place them in a straight line and one direction(not the band, the real direction), if you move the cursor somewhere else, it doesn't place it. Here I have a screenshot of torches which i could only place to the left side and in a straight line
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It pains me to resolve this since I strongly dislike this behavior, but sadly it is intended (MCPE-30610)
The bug
In bedrock edition, blocks can only be placed in a straight line when holding right-click, moving the crosshair elsewhere will result in nothing happening (MCPE-30610).
Blocks placed in this way that orient themselves based on the clicked face, such as logs, end up facing the wrong way.
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It seems that when you crouch while the game is attempting to place a block it'll break the "block chain" (a quirk where block placing is locked into a straight line after placing 2 blocks - MCPE-30610)
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However, this issue works as intended.
Per Helen Angel, this was an intentional change to avoid a recurrent bug. It also makes it easier to place blocks in straight lines, because you don't have to switch to a tool and break misplaced blocks as you go. For more information, see https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/7gwbby/holding_rightclick_will_only_fill_blocks_on_the/.
If you want to ask the developers to reconsider this change, you can make your request at the feedback site.
This behavior makes it impossible to do something like fill in a floor without clicking individually for each block. Hopefully this will be reconsidered if the underlying "recurring" bug that was mentioned was fixed
This might be work as intended and I know why this is a thing but it'd be good if we could go back to the old system pre-1.2.5
Still hoping this gets reopened. Quite a few blocks no longer have this issue, such as walls, scaffolding, carpets, redstone, torches, rails, etc as of 1.16