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myBlocks["My Block"] = findBlock("My Block");
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myBlocks["My New Block"] = findBlock("My New Block");
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```
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Objects `{}` are quite similar to lists in that they can hold values for different indexes. However, they access their values using a string as index. For instance, this allows you to store blocks based on their name instead of their id.
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Objects `{}` are quite similar to arrays. However, they instead use strings as an index. For instance, this allows you to store blocks based on their name instead of their id.
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```
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// Set blocks from the object
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setBlock(0, 0, 3, myBlocks["My Block"]);
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setBlock(1, 0, 3, myBlocks["My New Block"]);
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```
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However, this also allows us to create objects with custom properties like this:
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This also allows you to create a structured group of values, called properties, which represents as single item:
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```
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// Create object with custom properties
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let myBlock = {
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id: findBlock("My Block")
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};
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```
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We can then access the properties by following the variable name by `.` and the name of the property:
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If the name of the property can be considered a variable (it means it doesn't contain illegal characters such as spaces), after the variable name, instead of using `[""]`, we can instead use `.` and the property name next to it:
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```js
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// Set block by accessing custom properties
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setBlock(myBlock.x, myBlock.y, myBlock.z, myBlock.id);
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