Setting blocks to a block containing age block data (without physics) will cause ticking exceptions/world corruption.

While vanilla commands only allow blocks to be set with physics, the Bukkit API accesses Minecraft internal methods which may set blocks without queuing physics updates. If you set a region (a 5x5 cube, for example) to a block, such as Carrots, Fire, Beetroot_Block, etc. (which contains an “age” data component), the world will be permanently corrupted and the server will close immediately when the relevant chunks are loaded.

I believe that this causes a ticking exception. While this is not a high priority, please take a peek if you have the chance to potentially prevent this devastating bug from occurring when plugin and mod-makers set blocks without physics updates.

Edit: Again, I understand that this is Spigot console output, but the code that is causing issues is vanilla code present within the base server jar. I believe this example occurred from changing blocks to fire without physics. https://paste.md-5.net/samarusunu.txt