Preventing chunk updates

So you like the area around your house, but you don't want to go through the trouble of walking through each chunk one at a time. My solution, maps! Basically any chunk that was charted on a map doesn't update, this would allow you to protect the area around your house by simply just using a map. Also note how I said charted, basically my idea is that to protect chunks you still technically explore them, you can just explore more at a time. Another solution I have is to just make it so that the explore radius around the player is the same as the chart radius for maximum zoomed out maps