[Bug] : Chunkloaders do not load chunks when no players are in a dimension

[StargateMC]

As above.
This is a serious issue for Galacticraft rockets, stargates and all kinds of other items.
This issue is not fixed when tick no players is set to true.

If tick no players Is set to true, they work but only if a player is in the dimension (the player can be anywhere in that dimension).
For rockets and gates especially.. as they are dimension transfer tools, this is a serious problem.....

This occurs regardless of tick-no-players in tileentities.yml.

Tested in B32.

[sameer]

Try changing prevent invalid ticks to false

[StargateMC]

You mean prevent-invalid-tileentity-updates?

[sameer]

Yup

[StargateMC]

Will test now.

[StargateMC]

Didn't work man :(

[sameer]

It is identified as a known bug now, will need to investigate.

[Ghostlyr]

On 46 build chunkloaders not working at all. Option "prevent-invalid-tileentity-updates" disabled.

[sameer]

Rail craft chunk loaders seem to work fine on my server, what kind are you trying to use?

[Ghostlyr]

Hm... I used Personal Anchor from railcraft too, but it does not work

[sameer]

I used the world anchor, that seemed to work fine. In your cauldron yml, do you have both load chunk on request and load chunk on forge tick enabled?

[StargateMC]

Second that ghost.

Have the configs for chunk on forge tick and request enabled.

No chunk loaders seem to work from rail craft, as well as other items like rockets or stargates working properly either.

Only thing stopping me updating :P

[StargateMC]

I was primarily using admin anchors

[Eufranio]

Same error here. Nothing work to load the chunk, only an real player (not NPC from Citizens too) in a dimension load.

[ghost]

im using chicken chunk chunk loaders and they are working fine using the latest build. i tested placing a machine and filling it and leaving the server, log back in in 10 min and the machine had not done any work, i then placed a chunk loader and reset the machine and loged off for 10 min and when i log back on the machine is done.

[Eufranio]

Try using mana spreaders from an mana generation farm + mana mirror. The mana mirror doesn't fill, but when i enter to dimension it fill fast.

[ghost]

what mod?

[Eufranio]

Botania

[ghost]

Change tick-no-players:true for Botania in tileentity.yml

[ghost]

and for whatever chunk loader you use

[Eufranio]

I try this. All botania and railcraft chunk loaders (that i use) are set to tock-no-players: true, but still not loading.

[Eufranio]

I think that is an incompatibility with any mod that change chunk/entity load. No entities load, anywhere.

[StargateMC]

@Cracks777 This is a known issue... It is not something that is fixed by tileentities.yml unfortunately.

[Eufranio]

:(

[LemADEC]

What's the known issue exactly here?

[StargateMC]

If chunk loaders exist in a dim with no real players online and in if they do not load chunks.

Carts derail/stop, rockets vanish, stargates misbehave.

[StargateMC]

Or machines stop working.

[LemADEC]

Doesn't it depends on which mods are there? or how the chunkloading happens?

[StargateMC]

All of these mods chunk load and none of them work...
It's like Thermos is unloading a dimension when no players are in it preventing all methods of keeping chunks active working.

[sameer]

I do not have chicken chunks installed, I actually removed that mod.

[ghost]

i was talking about your comment about the world anchor from railcraft.

[sameer]

I am saying that I do not have chicken chunks and the world anchor for rail craft works fine. It is possible that the world is not set to be kept loaded

[ghost]

i know, i was saying that i have both tho and they both work fine. and was saying that you confirmed that the world anchor works fine. i think that its a mod conflict that they are having.

[StargateMC]

@robotia how do you set this?
All worlds including overworld have this problem for me..

[StargateMC]

Must mean I have a config issue that others are having if rail craft works for you @robotia

[Eufranio]

I tried spot loaders, chunk loaders, anchor, BC quarries, ender-thermic pumps, chunk loaders from Minefactory Reloaded... Nothing works.

[StargateMC]

This is working in b52.

[importnil]

@DraksterAU How is this working? I got the same issue on B53.

[StargateMC]

My admin anchors are working, I tested them earlier... It has been a while since I checked on this.
If its still occurring for you, ill reopen the ticket.

[importnil]

Yeah I got world anchors not working in a dimension where nobody is. Should I change some config to make them work?

[LemADEC]

I can reproduce it with my mod on KCauldron-1.7.10-1614.200 and Thermos-1.7.10-1614-build53.
Setting skip-tileentity-ticks to false or true has no effect.
The world itself seems to remain loaded but my mod entity is no longer ticking when players leave the world.
It feels like we've a skip-entity-ticks feature in action here.

[importnil]

skip-tileentity-ticks should not be a solution. Setting it to false might cause huge lags.
So I guess we need a proper solution.

[LemADEC]

For the record, my chunkloading isn't attached to any entity or tile entity.

[Eufranio]

blockEntity works here, but entities like Mana Spreaders, Mobspawners, dropped items doesn't work

[sameer]

For me, I have all chunk loaders banned. One player somehow placed a world anchor in an alternate dimension, which I caught because there were some chunks that remained loaded. It could be that the chunks are loaded but the tiles just aren't able to tick.

To test if the issue is caused by chunks not being loaded, please do the following:

1. Create a separate test world
2. Place a world anchor of your choice in it
3. Leave the world
4. See if the chunks remain loaded ( in /lag, the chunk count should remain the same as the number of chunks that are force-loaded)

If the chunks are still loaded, that means the issue is related to the absence of a player (point fingers at tick skipping, so the chunk tickets will need to be checked). Otherwise, it is unloading chunks that normally shouldn't be unloaded (will need to investigate this).

[LemADEC]

My test was done with only me on a server.
While in the overworld, my mod entity chunk load in the source and target dimensions.
Once my player is transferred to target dimension, the entity onUpdate is no longer called.
There's no call to writeEntityToNBT until I shutdown the server or come back to the source dimension.
Hence, to me, chunks are loaded but entities aren't ticked.

[importnil]

I can see in the notes there's some work on this and Frani just said it's now working with Botania flowers on his server.
My case is that world anchors do not load BC quarries in a separate "quarry world" when nobody is in there. Note: BC quarries have they chunk loading ability turned off in config.

[LemADEC]

Apparently the issue exist in forge itself, so I've changed my mod to no longer rely on entity ticks altogether.

[ghost]

@vadimyer You just answered your own question.

Note: BC quarries have they chunk loading ability turned off in config.

BuildCraft Quarries, like Ender Quarries will not tick at all if they cannot load the chunks that they're attempting to quarry out. Even if you yourself are loading up the chunks the Quarry is attempting to quarry out.

[vulunijo]

i have issue with railcraft chunkloaders among them WORK ONLY ADMIN ANCHOR! help plz

[bookerthegeek]

To everybody having this issue, can you disable all chickenbones mods and try again in a new world?

Please attempt with the mod added chunk loaders of your choice. Also make sure in your forge chunk loading configuration that you have the ability for mods to chunk loaders turned on. Also if in the pack try with either witchery poppet shelves, but quarries, and endothermic pumps.

[StargateMC]

To everybody having this issue, can you disable all chickenbones mods and try again in a new world?

Never had Chicken Bones installed in the first place.

[sameer]

Please check if this is still occurring.

[Martmists-GH]

Still occurs on latest build in an alternate dimension with any chunk loader on SkyFactory 2.4 modpack.

The chunk loader should, in theory, keep a computercraft computer loaded. However, it gets disabled once I leave the dimension the chunk loader is in. (Tested with both CB and MFR chunk loaders). This does NOT happen on a normal server as I just checked with an exact copy of the same world.

[Eufranio]

Thought was a bug in my modpack, is happening here too O.o

[Eufranio]

Using build 58, I have a pump from BuildCraft in nether chunkloaded, when I come to overworld it stops pumping. Entities will also stop ticking, droppers won't work (like Botania endoflame's machines), mana bursts won't travel, mobs won't spawn and die, etc.
(yes this is a bump with some informations ;-;)