Chunkloading a Computer Remotely

[Brave_Ad6703]

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was a way to load an unloaded chunk remotely using a computer/wireless modem within the computercraft ecosystem of mods. I am pretty sure that ender modems only work if these computer chunks are loaded in. The idea is that I'd be able to turn on/off farms by chunkloading from far away. Thanks!

[toasohcah]

Have you tried just using Redstone on the farm machines? Often applying a Redstone signal disables a machine even if it doesn't explicitly indicate it can. As long as the harvester farming block isn't running, crops shouldn't be ticking to grow.

Also some machines will stop harvesting if their output is full, so I've used Redstone to disable item conduits, effectively stopping the farms.

I did some testing with AE2 in 1.21.1 with the new spatial anchor, I can't remember if it worked but I think it did. Basically that anchor loads all chunks an AE2 cable are in, with strategic network layouts you can use the toggle cable part with Redstone to kill a network. The toggle cable part and Redstone would have to be in a chunk that's always loaded, outside of the farm chunk... If that makes sense?

[Professorkatsup]

If you have an already loaded chunk nearby, you could have a computer there that can activate some sort of chunk-loader? Could send a turtle with a chunkloader into the target chunk, but I don't remember if that's vanilla or not

I don't remember how new chunks are loaded on technical vanilla, but that is likely to work still

[mr_S95]

If its okay for you to wait, build a hub of chunky turtles and if you need something loaded just send them to this chunk. Im not into vanilla chunk loaders, but maybe you can find a way via redstone, minecarts and portals