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An object to keep a chunk loaded

At present, in order for a block to be in an active state it must be within 80 blocks of a player. In practice this means that if you wanted to build a machine to do something all components of it would need to be within 80 blocks of any player which limits things considerably. Along railways this causes a jittery effect as the rail slow to allow new blocks to load, and of course large monster grinders can be very limited.

The workaround, thus far, has been to use player spawn points as each one seems to keep the surrounding chunks active.

I propose the creation of a new kind of block that would keep a chunk active as if a player was present. It could be an extremely difficult item to craft to be balanced, and it could even be limited to keep system resources under control, but considering that some servers can have hundreds of players each with spawn points that keep chunks active, I don't think there would be a problem in having a rare item to keep chunks active so that larger machines, redstone contraptions, and railways can work as the builder intends.

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    It takes some redstone, but you can make a permanent chunk loader with a Nether portal.  Nether portals load both dimensions for 10 seconds when something goes through them, so by using dispensers to toss an item back and forth, you can permanently load a chunk.  Look up a tutorial if you're interested.

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    yeah, I am aware of that workaround, but the constant activity on both sides would be more lag heavy than simply having an object do it especially since you would need to do that for every chunk you wanted to keep active and it would require keeping the nether chunks active as well. In principle, the object would just act as if the /forceload command was in effect on the chunk while the block was present and that just seems like the better solution.

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    I suggest a land claim block. Each Minecraft player could only put down one claim block and the land claim block would not only show the chunk border but also keep the chunk active no matter where a player is in the game. This land claim block could be moved only by the player who placed it but could also be used to identify chunks for chunk aligning Redstone contraptions and farms

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    SpawnChunkRadius is always 0 in Bedrock currently, maybe it should be changeable.