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constant chunk load

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any way here to keep a chunk loaded constant while you go and explore?? this will be a benefit to automatic machinery you have set up

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Re: constant chunk load

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rubenwardy wrote:Seriously? viewtopic.php?p=152268#p152268
yeah seriously....... if a post is buried in 40 pages of what could be out there but sorry I am unsure so I asked. people like you make the world hate remember that

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Pride... Is the greatest enemy... Of open source. There is a good signature phrase to show off.

As far as I know, what you are wishing for is just not possible currently, mojuave. There is a feature in Minetest known as LuaVoxelManip that might be useful to that end someday, however.

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mojuave wrote:any way here to keep a chunk loaded constant while you go and explore?? this will be a benefit to automatic machinery you have set up
Open up another client and log in with a dummy player. Have him sit there while your machines work. Then you can do other stuff.
Haven't tested, but it sounds simple enough to work.

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you COULD edit your minetest.conf file and increase the values in these 2 settings so that active blocks such as furnaces and Abm's work when you are further away from them:

active_object_send_range_blocks = 3
active_block_range = 2

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Inocudom wrote:Pride... Is the greatest enemy... Of open source. There is a good signature phrase to show off.

As far as I know, what you are wishing for is just not possible currently, mojuave. There is a feature in Minetest known as LuaVoxelManip that might be useful to that end someday, however.
I do remember there being a way with voxelmanip of force loading areas, I might make a mod which does something like that . (for admins and creative only though)

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I am working on this. I was working on this before this topic was opened.

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how do I download this

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Re: constant chunk load

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Evergreen wrote:
mojuave wrote:

how do I download this
https://github.com/rubenwardy/forceload ... master.zip

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Re: constant chunk load

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is there a trick to making it work?

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You need the force load privilege, and you need to place the anchor block. Force load is given automatically in single player. See the mod's topic.
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Re: constant chunk load

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rubenwardy wrote:You need the force load privilege, and you need to place the anchor block. Force load is given automatically in single player. See the mod's topic.

I did all that and I placed the blocks then left the area came back and my quarry wasn't running so do I need to turn it on somehow?

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It should work. Look for error messages like 'force load failed'
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