Bedrock ChunkLoader
Keep chosen areas loaded so your farms run while you are away.
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Overview
Here's the deal with Minecraft: your incredibly complex, painstakingly engineered farm produces at an impressive rate of zero the moment you wander away. Chunks unload, pistons freeze, hoppers give up, and your farm takes a nap until you come back.
BedrockChunkLoader fixes this with craftable loader blocks that keep configurable areas active. Farm Mode can continue producing drops for 12 supported farm types, validates the collection setup, and applies the owner's held Looting sword bonus automatically.
Loaders support redstone control, animated three-state displays, protected ownership, and floating status text that hides behind walls. Interact with a loader to manage it directly.
Server operators get a full panel through /mygen:chunkloaders. Version 1.4.0 also lets operators grant trusted players persistent administrator access, so day-to-day management no longer requires full operator permissions.
The current recipe is overworld-focused: a Redstone Block in the centre, with a Diamond, Resin Clump, Amethyst Shard, and Lapis Lazuli around it and empty corners. It unlocks when you obtain a Redstone Block or Resin Clump.
Features
- Persistent chunk loading keeps farms and contraptions running
- Redstone control - power a loader to pause chunk loading
- Three-state display: Active (green), Inactive (red), Redstone Off (orange)
- Farm Mode - mob farms keep producing drops while you're away
- Looting sword support - hold a looting sword to boost farm drop amounts
- 12 supported farm types with realistic drop tables
- Setup validation ensures correct placement above collection system
- Configurable chunk radius (2-6 chunks, creates 5x5 to 13x13 chunk areas)
- Interactive chunk loader menu for managing settings
- Floating text hidden behind walls using raycasting
- Overworld-focused recipe using redstone, diamond, resin, amethyst, and lapis
- Visual status display with animated textures and floating text
- Owner protection - only owner or admins can remove
- Player limit system (configurable 1-20 loaders per player)
- Admin panel with farm mode, redstone, and proximity config
- Global enable/disable for performance management
- Teleport to loader locations for easy inspection
- Works with redstone, crops, hoppers, furnaces, and more
- No Beta APIs required - achievement friendly
- Multiplayer ready for realms and servers
How to install
- Visit CurseForge and download the latest .mcaddon release.
- Open the file with Minecraft to import both packs.
- Add the BedrockChunkLoader Behavior Pack to your world; its Resource Pack activates automatically.
- No Beta APIs are required.
- Craft a loader with a Redstone Block in the centre, a Diamond, Resin Clump, Amethyst Shard, and Lapis Lazuli around it, with empty corners. The recipe unlocks when you obtain a Redstone Block or Resin Clump. Place the loader, interact with it to configure it, or use /mygen:chunkloaders for administration.
Changelog
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v1.4.0 Latest
Added
- New overworld-focused crafting recipe using a Redstone Block, Diamond, Resin Clump, Amethyst Shard, and Lapis Lazuli
- Persistent admin delegation through the Manage Administrators panel
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.120+
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v1.3.0
Added
- Looting sword support: hold a looting sword while your farm is running to boost drop amounts, just like a real trident killer
- Admin tool to delete orphaned chunk loader data (useful when blocks are lost due to chunk issues or the addon being temporarily removed)
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.120+
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v1.2.0
Added
- Redstone control: power a chunk loader with redstone to pause chunk loading
- Three-state display: [ACTIVE] (green), [INACTIVE] (red), [REDSTONE OFF] (orange)
- 2-second grace period when deactivating via redstone to prevent chunk unloading race conditions
- Admin toggle to enable/disable redstone control for all chunk loaders
- Disabling redstone control automatically reactivates any loaders that were paused by redstone
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.120+
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v1.1.0
Added
- Farm Mode: Configure chunk loaders to keep mob farms producing items while you're away
- 12 supported farm types with realistic drop tables (Iron, Gold, General Mob, Creeper, Witch, Enderman, Blaze, Guardian, Drowned, Slime, Fish & Ink, Magma Cube)
- Setup validation ensures correct placement above a collection system (hopper or water stream)
- Admin toggle to enable/disable farm mode for all players
- Configurable farm proximity distance (32-256 blocks)
- Floating text hidden behind walls using raycasting
- Interactive chunk loader menu replaces direct toggle
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.120+
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v1.0.1
Bug Fixes
- Fixed chunk loaders being destroyable by explosions (TNT, creepers, etc.)
- Fixed chunk loaders being pushable/pullable by pistons
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.120+
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v1.0.0
Initial Release
- Persistent chunk loading with configurable radius (2-6 chunks)
- Craftable chunk loader blocks with recipe unlocking system
- Owner protection - only owners and admins can remove loaders
- Visual feedback with animated textures and floating status text
- Active state: green tick (✓), light level 10, purple block
- Inactive state: red cross (✕), no light, purple block
- Toggle loaders on/off by interacting with the block
- Admin management panel with comprehensive controls (/mygen:chunkloaders)
- Configurable max loaders per player (1-20, default 5)
- Configurable default chunk radius (2-6 chunks, default 4)
- Global enable/disable functionality for all loaders
- Per-loader management: view info, toggle status, teleport to location
- Admin tag system for bypass permissions
- Compatible with redstone, crops, hoppers, furnaces, and more
- Achievement friendly - no Beta APIs required
- Resource Pack automatically activated with Behavior Pack
Works with Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.120+
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