I'm observing an odd behavior with my server. I don't have any issues with it being there, but I'd like to understand why it happens - so here's hoping that somebody knows more about this than I do.
Basically, I regularly see machines working in unloaded chunks. I can't even recall ever seeing something fail due to missing chunkloading, and me and two friends have been playing in that world for 2 weeks now. Why the heck does it do that?
One example: I set up a tesseract at my base, to receive items from my quarry. I then traveled to my quarry, well outside of chunk loading distance from my base. I set up the other tesseract there. I started the quarry. Items did not spill out - they arrived at the base and were correctly sorted by my pipes into the correct storage chests. Only, nobody was at my base at the time - and I do not own a chunkloader of any kind.
Another, more drastic example: I have a recycler set up with a barrel full of cobble on top of it (well, a hopper in the middle). I can fill the barrel up, then log out and shut down the server completely. Then I can restart it and just let it sit there. Fresh start, nobody logged in, no chunk was ever loaded by a player even once. After waiting half an hour I can log in and find my barrel more than half empty. If I leave a stack of ingots in my metalformer, I will find it completely processed as well. And my geothermals supply power for all this while receiving lava from a friend's base two kilometers away, who also does not have any chunkloaders.
(For what it's worth: the receiving tesseract from example 1 and the recycler from example 2 are three chunks apart, roughly diagonally.)
I run a custom modpack on Minecraft 1.6.4 and Forge 937. There are a few "exotic" mods in there, like Alternate Terrain Generation, but none of them even deal with or offer the means for chunkloading.
The server is configured to load the full 15 chunk radius around the player instead of the default 10. Still, even counting that, the distance between my quarry and my base is more than twice that big, and the effect even happens when no player is logged in at all.
So, has any fellow server admin ever seen something like this, or knows why it happens?
Basically, I regularly see machines working in unloaded chunks. I can't even recall ever seeing something fail due to missing chunkloading, and me and two friends have been playing in that world for 2 weeks now. Why the heck does it do that?
One example: I set up a tesseract at my base, to receive items from my quarry. I then traveled to my quarry, well outside of chunk loading distance from my base. I set up the other tesseract there. I started the quarry. Items did not spill out - they arrived at the base and were correctly sorted by my pipes into the correct storage chests. Only, nobody was at my base at the time - and I do not own a chunkloader of any kind.
Another, more drastic example: I have a recycler set up with a barrel full of cobble on top of it (well, a hopper in the middle). I can fill the barrel up, then log out and shut down the server completely. Then I can restart it and just let it sit there. Fresh start, nobody logged in, no chunk was ever loaded by a player even once. After waiting half an hour I can log in and find my barrel more than half empty. If I leave a stack of ingots in my metalformer, I will find it completely processed as well. And my geothermals supply power for all this while receiving lava from a friend's base two kilometers away, who also does not have any chunkloaders.
(For what it's worth: the receiving tesseract from example 1 and the recycler from example 2 are three chunks apart, roughly diagonally.)
I run a custom modpack on Minecraft 1.6.4 and Forge 937. There are a few "exotic" mods in there, like Alternate Terrain Generation, but none of them even deal with or offer the means for chunkloading.
The server is configured to load the full 15 chunk radius around the player instead of the default 10. Still, even counting that, the distance between my quarry and my base is more than twice that big, and the effect even happens when no player is logged in at all.
So, has any fellow server admin ever seen something like this, or knows why it happens?
