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Loading Chunks in Groups

Redstone engineers are constantly irritated by the fact that redstone contraptions built across chunk borders tend to break unexpectedly. On the other hand, servers can't afford to keep every player's base loaded all the time. What we need is a way to load groups of chunks together instead of one at a time. Redstone contraptions could then still be paused when noone was around, but wouldn't break when being reloaded. This could be achieved in a few ways: 

1. Manual - A player could manually label chunks as connected. If one of those chunks was loaded, the other would be loaded as well. This would allow redstone contraptions across this specific border to function. 

2. Automatic - Redstone components themselves could cause nearby chunks to be loaded. This could work in a few different ways. For example, adjacent chunks that both contain redstone components would be loaded/unloaded as a group.

Obviously this could be abused, so there could be a limit on how many chunks are in each "group". 

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    I'm sure this will do wonders for the game. And I also think that groups of chunks should be loaded according to their priority below:

    • Chunks closest to the player (regardless of render distance): It's annoying that chunks farther away are sometimes loaded first.
    • Chunks with unmanned ender pearl stasis chambers/landing ender pearls: This is done to avoid tedious construction of chunk loaders around the area where you want to teleport using ender pearl cannons.
    • In addition to the active redstone devices, as mentioned in the post
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    Grouped chunks should also have the same load level at all times so that if one chunk in the group is entity processing, then all chunks in the group are.

    There should be a command to do this just like we can create always loaded areas with forceload command. But some survival friendly method to do this is needed too.