For instance i would like it if i could make it that waystones out in the wilds where breakable but the ones that are generated with Towers of the Wild and/or in Villages are unbreakable.

All "unbreakable" options will be removed in Minecraft 1.20, instead you will be able to have village/wild generated waystones shatter on break without dropping an item. #684

thats a terrible idea. people will run around and destroy them, either on purpose or by accident. i used to set waystones to only naturally spawn in villages and to be unbreakable. only OPs were allowed to modify/remove them. if regular players can do whatever they want, then waystones are pretty much useless.

might i ask what brought this change? if its a minecraft 1.20 specific thing, then im sure there are workarounds for it.

The claim that this change makes Waystones useless is quite ridiculous. It is unreasonable to expect Waystones to take responsibility for griefers.

• There are chunk claiming mods that can protect certain areas, mods that allow granular control over which blocks can be broken, and Modloader APIs to control these things in much more suited ways than individual content mods each implementing complex permission handling for their blocks
• There are many other blocks where you could argue the same, i.e. unauthorized breaking of them would be problematic. Should Minecraft add an unbreakableChests option because some servers have shared community chests?
• There are also many other ways even unbreakable waystones could be griefed (e.g. by tearing down the surroundings, encasing them in lava, etc.)
• Unbreakable Waystones carry the risk of being used for griefing themselves (i.e. by using them to block pathways)
• Besides Bedrock and End Portal Frames, no Vanilla blocks are unbreakable

All "unbreakable" options will be removed in Minecraft 1.20, instead you will be able to have village/wild generated waystones shatter on break without dropping an item. #684