The RMCT Standard Ruleset permits players to break blocks outside of their lanes, but the AutoReferee plugin prevents players from doing so.

There are several maps with blocks in the void lane where this issue could have a significant impact on gameplay, and there are many otherwise viable strategies involving creating cobblestone in the void lane and then breaking some of it, or pushing blocks into the void lane with pistons and later breaking them that this issue prevents.

Is this while they are in the lane, or outside the lane?

@Keanulaszlo: With AutoRef, if you're on a team playing in a match, you can't break blocks that occupy positions outside of your lane by punching, digging, chopping, or shearing them at any time, from any location inside or outside of your lane.

Reviewed the rules and thus is indeed a bug. Might be one that maps would need the ability to override, since AutoReferee does more than just RFW. I'll try to fix this sometime when I get home.

Great!

Yay! Thank you for attending to this.