I didn't know this was possible and It seems an awesome thing to have.

Other than griefing, misclicks are bound to happen and sometimes repairing isn't a simple a task (think about redstone for example).

It would also open the path for a lot of less obvious damage-control options, not just farms but games, customizable arenas etc

Update to this since I did some tests just now with some people, one person was an ally in my nation, another was a resident in my nation, and lastly was a complete outsider.

Now I set two chunks within my sugar farm to wilds plot type and turned on all destroy permissions [resident/ally/outsider]. These three people were all able to successfully destroy the produce that was in those chunks while at the same time being unable to destroy the netherrack/nether brick slab or place anything that was not produce in those chunks.

This is what wilds plot type is supposed to do, so that's all well and good.

Except I tried to then implement this exact system into the other farms that we have and it wouldn't allow anything. I had the chunk set to the wilds type, had all destroy permissions on and they showed up as being turned on every time I checked /plot perm to see them.

However when they tried to destroy produce on the chunk it wouldn't allow them to. It would repeatedly tell them that "doesn't allow resident/ally/outsider" to destroy here. Which makes no sense, because there's absolutely no permission differences between the chunks and yet it's not working now.

So I guess wilds plots somewhat work but also somewhat don't work. So any idea on why it wouldn't be working for some plots but does for others? It seems to be something with the wilds plot type itself, because I have the exact same permission for destroy/build when I turn it into a regular plot type and there's no destroy permission issues.

Update:
All the wilds plots that I've had permissions problems with have been owned once before, but are now not owned by anyone. The ones that I've had success with and work properly have never been owned before. I'm not sure if this is what's causing it but it's at least perhaps a clue towards what's wrong with it.

Update:
All the wilds plots that I've had permissions problems with have been owned once before, but are now not owned by anyone. The ones that I've had success with and work properly have never been owned before. I'm not sure if this is what's causing it but it's at least perhaps a clue towards what's wrong with it.

Pretty much if the plot was ever owned by a person, you can't toy with the perms. Even residents won't be able to have perms, only town staff because they override it.

This would make public resource buildings so much easier to accomplish.  Would extend beyond just farms and would make town staff life a lot easier.  I'm definitely hoping this is possible, as running a town even partially is already a huge handful.  Thanks to the staff for looking into it!

So basically it's still useless to have a town farm?

Just sugar cane? .. really?

Fatnoob, can we *please* get an update, we've been waiting for months to have an anti-grief system for town farms, because "public" plots just does NOT cut it, especially if you guys dont' roll back griefs, nor take action against the offenders.

if it really is just an ID list, it could be done before the next update, and we don't have to wait for 1.8.

*bumping, because we have people not joining towns, and leaving towns, because there's no crops or tree farms, etc.

About pumpkin and melons, don't we as town staff want to plant the seed, but only let them break the grown block (not the grown stem)? Not sure what's best here.
Yes, glowstone *needs* to be removed.

Carrot / Carrots ; listed twice?

Aren't saplings a dropped item they can just pick up btw?
Twisted beat me to it to bump this post, last we've heard was foob saying in january he'd look into it.
Isn't it a matter of just adding the id list? O_o

ppl are not joining the town, and some are considering leaving, because the big town farms are limited to town staff.

I wasn't sure which item actually considers itself as 'planted' when it comes to planting them down. Since it may be different. Netherwart is actually Nether Stalk when it comes to the chest shops, so it may be different when it comes to this ID list. Figured it was better safe than sorry when it came to carrots.

I've taken Pumpkin and Melon seeds out of the list then. People shouldn't be able to itemuse anyway to wash them off the ground.

If the Admins decide to change anything, it will likely be posted up in a change log like many of the  previous updates have been.