Having issues with something not loading.

[yugas42]

Hey there, on the server that I play on for Mindcrack FTB i've been working on setting up a set of mob spawning towers, they're designed to drop mobs from a tier 5 spawner onto the ground to kill them, and currently I have obsidian pipes under them collecting drops. I'm currently working on a gold farm, dropping Pigmen and auto crafting the nuggets into ingots, then putting them in an ender chest to transport them to a central sorting system at our spawn.

I've run into a problem tonight that nobody seems to be able to fix, when I walk away from the spawning tower (out of chunk load range) it shuts off, even with a chunk loader set to load more area than the entire system takes up, so I know for sure everything is loaded. I'm using wireless redstone to keep the spawner turned on, and i've also tried a lever, but something ends up unloading, I don't know if it's the spawner, the actual item drops, or the auto crafting that stops working, but i've ruled out the fact that it's the pipes, because the same issue occurs with filters. Does anyone know what is unloading, even with a chunk loader, and stopping my system from producing gold ingots?

 

[mattyboy12]

You need to put it in a myst age as if someone else is in the world and no one is 128 blocks from it mobs despawn

 

[yugas42]

So there's actually no way to do this otherwise? It seems like a simple enough idea, chunk load spawner, spawner makes items, items go to enderchest. It's a simple concept, but then I suppose I don't fully understand some of the mods, so I really can't complain.

 

[cynric]

It is a vanilla mechanic that seems to be impossible to prevent. If no player is within 128 blocks, mobs despawn almost immediately. Only if no player is in the entire dimension, the game doesn't do this (I assume because it either gets confused or assumes, the dimension will be unloaded anyways, which doesn't happen due to chunk loaders).

 

[yugas42]

So would this work in the nether too? Or does it have to be a Myst age.

 

[Seraph089]

So would this work in the nether too? Or does it have to be a Myst age.

The Nether would work just as well. So would the End, for that matter. As long as it's a seperate dimension, it'll work if nobody is there and it's chunkloaded

 

[yugas42]

Alright, thanks for the help, at least now my project can continue.

 

[yugas42]

It seems I have to build everything in the nether, because Mystcraft is not included with Mindcrack FTB, another setback, but at least there's a solution...