diff --git a/src/pocketmine/network/mcpe/NetworkBinaryStream.php b/src/pocketmine/network/mcpe/NetworkBinaryStream.php
index 69f7cd9ce..ca1dd4062 100644
--- a/src/pocketmine/network/mcpe/NetworkBinaryStream.php
+++ b/src/pocketmine/network/mcpe/NetworkBinaryStream.php
@@ -148,7 +148,17 @@ class NetworkBinaryStream extends BinaryStream{
 			$nbt = self::$itemNbtSerializer->write($item->getNamedTag());
 			$nbtLen = strlen($nbt);
 			if($nbtLen > 32767){
-				throw new \InvalidArgumentException("NBT encoded length must be < 32768, got $nbtLen bytes");
+				/*
+				 * TODO: Workaround bug in the protocol (overflow)
+				 * Encoded tags larger than 32KB overflow the length field, so we can't send these over network.
+				 * However, it's unreasonable to randomly throw this burden off onto users by crashing their servers, so the
+				 * next best solution is to just not send the NBT. This is also not an ideal solution (books and the like
+				 * with too-large tags won't work on the client side) but it's better than crashing the server or client due
+				 * to a protocol bug. Mojang have confirmed this will be resolved by a future MCPE release, so we'll just
+				 * work around this problem until then.
+				 */
+				$nbt = "";
+				$nbtLen = 0;
 			}
 		}