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Define reliable Chunk-Loading behavior without Player interaction

How Chunks are loaded without player interaction has been changing throughout almost every past update of Minecraft (java edition). Some examples include:

  • Nether Portal Entity Transfer Chunk-Loading 
    Previously at 1 tick when an entity passed through the portal.
    Recently changed to 15 seconds of chunk-loading.
  • Hopper / Dropper Item transfer across chunk boarder chumk-loading
    Recently patched out of the game
  • Redstone signal propagation across chunk boarder chunk-loading
  • Spawn-Chunks being always loaded
  • End Portal Entity Transfer Chunk-Loading
  • and several more.

Unfortunately it is relatively hard to search for more examples, since the search results quickly vanish when a new version of the game is released.  

It would be great to have a defined behavior for chunk loading in the game, since it would allow us to build contraptions which make use of these features, without having to worry about them breaking in a future update.  

I.e. a system which transports items from a remote outpost to a storage at spawn.

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    I agree!!! We really need our creations to stop just trashing themselves when the chunk loads. IT SUCKS

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    this has to be in game... chunk loader or something

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    The problem with player induced chunk loading is that it will allow players to pretty much DDoS the servers by loading too many chunks.

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    Maybe have some functionality for minecarts or a type of minecart that has a chunkloading property? Like a new use for furnace minecarts or something?