Tesseract in nether with no Chunk Loader?

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ExRayz

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I am currently playing on a server where chunk loaders are banned for lag issues. I just started playing and I really want to use a pump in the nether for my geothermal generator. I was thinking of using a tesseract or an ender chest, but then I realised that chunk loaders are banned.
Is there any way in which I can do this in the nether without using any chunk loaders?
 
Stay in the nether?
But yeah, you could use a quarry to load the chunks, but you'd prob be banned for that
 
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Yeah I was thinking of both of those, but I'm not going to be on for a couple of days and I wanted a decent amount of lava when I came back. The second one, I haven't yet asked the mods but I'll try.
Thanks for the answer! :)
 
Yes, actually, although it's much less power-positive than I think you'd like. The only way anyone can get mad at you about this is if they have also banned quarries.

Here's what you can do:
  1. Find a big, flat, solid plane of nettherack in the nether. Position a max-size quarry here slightly mis-aligned from chunk boundaries so that the quarry will keep itself loaded, with a bit of space for machines.
  2. Build some magmatic engines and magma crucibles.
  3. Rig just two or three magmatic engines to power your quarry and let them get started by hand-feeding them lava. You want a nice big supply of netherrack before you start. But you want the quarry to run as slowly as possible so you don't have to reset this rig often.
  4. On site in your "accidentally" chunk loaded region, set up several magma crucibles and several magmatic engines to power them. Set it up so that they are constantly fed with netherrack.
  5. Melting netherrack is slightly energy and lava positive, so replicating it 4-5 times and then piping the magma to a tesseract/ender tank will give you the same results as pumping lava.
  6. Make sure to buffer your netherrack such that if you stop consuming lava, you will not be spilling material everywhere! Void the excess from a buffer chest, using a gate to detect if it's full.
This method is much more costly than pumping lava, and is much more complex. It is, however, much less stressful on the server and your client because there are no fluid calculations and slow-running quarries are generally not considered CPU hogs. You might also sneak a normal pump rig nearby if everyone is cool with this, on the grounds that "it powers my crucibles."
 
You do realize that nether lava pumps are one of the worst things you can do on a server from a lag stand point. It is up their with leaky pipes and leaving a mob farm running with out a auto kill/collection system. The reason behind this is the horribly inefficient way in which minecraft handles flowing liquids which just eats away at the servers cpu. This is fine when your the only one playing in SSP but on a server it can add up to be a nightmare especially if your not the only one doing it.

In effect this is why magma cucibles were made to allow easy access to lava in a balanced manor. Also if you have Gregtech look into the advanced pump as it was designed to negate the effects of flowing lava by clearing it away but is less efficient power wise.
 
Portal guns keep one block loaded at each open portal. Creative placement could get you a small amount of lava before you had to move stuff.

Or you could just use real power generation
 
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