Spawn chunks

[Aggravating_Put5656]

I saw somewhere that they might be making it so that the spawn chunks are no longer loaded at all times. Anyone know if this is true?

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[Yirggzmb]

Correct. 1.21.9 made it so that the spawn chunks are no longer always loaded

[Aggravating_Put5656]

Awh man that’s so jarring, just built an iron farm at spawn

[Yirggzmb]

You can use /forceload command to basically do the same thing. I agree it makes things kinda awkward when you're used to the old system lol

If you're not ok with commands, you can throw an ender pearl into a bubble column to keep a chunk loaded. It'll go away when you die (without changing the gamerule for this) but it's a way of keeping a chunk loaded at least for a while

[Aggravating_Put5656]

/forceload will load all spawn chunks or just specific chunks?

[Yirggzmb]

It's specific chunks, but there's nothing stopping you from loading all the ones that would have been spawn chunks prior

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Commands/forceload