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Loading chunks: forceload, portals and pearls
Chanclauder supports downloading the area when the player has left. The administrator has /forceload; in survival, port crossings or ender jams are used. A loaded cup does not guarantee the work of a mechanic who still needs a player around.
The loading of data from the cup, the processing of its blocks and the processing of objects are different states. The edge of the loaded area is not required to operate in the same way as its centre. Before building a large farm, check the necessary mechanics in the dish where it will stand.
| Situation | What to do |
|---|---|
| Furnaces, funnels and redstone | Check the processing of blocks and block entities in the selected area. |
| Items, carts and mobs | Entity processing is needed, not just the presence of chunk data in memory. |
| Natural mob spawning | Player presence conditions are preserved: the loader does not become a player. |
| Plants and other random ticks | Check the mechanics separately. Constant loading is not a promise of growth without a player. |
In Java, either turn on commands or get operator rights. For example, perform /execute in minor:overworld runforceload Add 0 0. Arguments are the coordinates of XZ block where the game selects the cup; these are not the cup numbers.
- Select the block coordinates inside the desired chunk.
- Execute /execute in minecraft:overworld run forceload add 0 0, substituting your X Z.
- Check /execute in minecraft:overworld run forceload query 0 0.
- After completing the experiment, delete the entry: /execute in minecraft:overworld run forceload remove 0 0.
For the Lower World, use the minimum:the_nether; for End, the minimum: the_end. The query command shows the list without coordinates in the selected dimension.
When the entity passes through the Neser portal, the game temporarily supports the processing of the destination area. Therefore, the portal downloader regularly transports items between a pair of connected portals. On both sides it is necessary to collect the object and reload; once an abandoned item does not create a permanent download.
- First link a pair of portals at the desired location and check the direction of the transition.
- Place item reception into the funnel and re-dispensing into the portal on both sides.
- Use periodic submission with a reserve for the validity period of the portal ticket; Take into account the portal cooldown of the entity itself.
- Run both sides and make sure items do not accumulate on the ground.
- Before leaving, check the mechanism from a distance and after restarting the server.
Specific assembly depends on portal orientation and version. Plagues and Paper configuration can limit port downloaders. Check server rules.
In Java with 1.21.2, the abandoned ender jellyfish was loaded and processed along the way. For long-term work, he is kept in a stasis cell where he does not concern a solid block. An accidental collision teleports the owner and completes this mode of loading.
- Gather a well with an outer section of 3 x 3 and an inner mine of 1 x 1. On the bottom is one piece of shower sand; the walls around the mine are complete, such as glass.
- Over the sand of the shower, fill eight cells of water in height. Each cell must be a source: one bucket from above is not enough. Check the rising column of bubbles to the surface.
- In the ninth cell above the sand of the shower, put the hatch in the upper half and open it vertically. Leave the air above the centre; the walls continue to the edge of the chamber.
- Get on the edge and throw your ender pearls down into the water. Avoid walls and hatches: Pearls should be left to rock at the surface, not immediately teleport you.
- Put the test oven in the same cup, put the raw material and the fuel, then go far away. If you use the pencil for construction, delete it first.
- Protect the camera from accidental ingress of blocks and entities. The impact ends stasis and teleports the wielder.
- Separately check the owner exit, death and server restart. Don't consider these situations to be the same as a normal player going off into the distance.
| Situation | What to do |
|---|---|
| Level 0 | Soul sand in the center. |
| Levels 1–8 | Eight water sources in a 1×1 mine; solid walls all around. |
| Level 9 | An open vertical hatch in the upper half of the cage. |
| Above the mine | Air: pearls should not touch the ceiling. |
The option has been checked on Java 26.3 vanilla server: after the removal of the forceload, the owner was located approximately 4,900 blocks from the cell; for 1,200 teaks, the oven melted four items, and the pearls remained in water. This is a test of the treatment of the furnace rather than natural soda or 24-hour operation after the owner left.
Put a known amount of raw materials and fuel in the oven, write down time, go far and check the results after return. Do not stay close to the observer mode: its influence depends on the rules of the game. One experience with the oven confirms the work of the oven, but not the natural spa of the mobs.
- Record the chunk coordinates and measurement.
- Check the work near the player.
- Move outside the normal processing area and compare the results.
- Repeat the experiment after restarting and exiting the owner.
- Remove the temporary forceload if it was used for preparation: otherwise it will mask the mechanism error.
- Mojang: the appearance of loading chunks with ender pearls
- Mojang: original change to 24w37a
- Minecraft Wiki: loader diagrams and mechanics
- Paper: world configuration
The instructions are checked on October 31, 2026. Select files to fit your game and device.
Do I need to enter the chunk number in forceload?
No. The command receives the coordinates of the X Z block and selects the chunk containing them. For example, block -1 0 is in chunk -1 0.
Will the mob farm work without the player?
Chunkloader does not cancel the rules of natural spawning. Loading and player availability for a specific farm are checked separately.
Does this method work in Bedrock?
This guide is specific to Java. Bedrock has other mechanisms and commands, including tickingarea; You can't migrate a Java schema without checking it.
Reconciled with authors ' documentation and official statement 2026-10-31.