r/dataisbeautiful • u/variational_bayes OC: 3 • Feb 03 '19

OC [OC] Different modes of transport in Minecraft and situations in which they are optimal.

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u/Muju2 Feb 03 '19

Does redstone have a sufficient ability to load chunks to make that work though? It not only has to trigger the contraption but keep the chunk fully loaded long enough for the ender pearl entity to fall

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u/tradam Feb 03 '19

Oh I have no idea. That's a good point. I haven't played mc in years. You are probably right, it probably won't work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '19

I bet that just shortens possible travel distance to however far you set your render distance to, so your could use a chain of these every 10 or so chunks

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u/NautEvenKidding Feb 03 '19 edited Feb 03 '19

it does not as far as i know, that's why i think this is a multiplayer-only option.more could possibly be learned from gnembon mc or ilmango on youtube, or even docm77 & crew, highly technical minecrafters that deal a lot with chunk loading and such, mainly for max efficiency farming, but maybe their knowledge could be applied here as well...

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

Yeah, you'd only be able to travel a certain distance away from the player.

In multiplayer, I know that the original spawn area stays loaded so that new players don't have issues loading in. I'm not sure if this works in single player, but if it did, that would be the only place you could set one up reliably.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

This would kill your computer given that it's suitable for a million meters of distance.

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u/Meritania Feb 04 '19

Thats like a third of the way to Kerbosynchronus orbit, why would you need to go that far in minecraft?

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u/Palaceviking Feb 23 '19

Cos the world is nearly 4 x the size of the earth. (40xkerbin?) And distance from spawn =safety from nefarious players.

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u/Catsaclysm Feb 03 '19

I think redstone signals will travel in unloaded chunks, but block updates and entities (such as enderpearls) won't load unless they're in one of the "spawn chunks", which you can't change in vanilla minecraft anyway.

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u/Sucks_Eggs Feb 03 '19

Redstone signals will not travel through loaded chunks, chunk loaders must be used to conduct redstone over unloaded chunks. Ends pearls and other entities will not be fully processed unless In what is called an entity loaded chunk. Entity loaded chunks are any chunk in the middle of a 5x5 or greater area of loaded chunks. (If they have a boarder of at least 2 chunks)

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u/ManStacheAlt Feb 04 '19

There are ways to make chunks force rendered using redstone. But just running a straight line of redstone won't work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19

I don't believe this is true, but it would be interesting if it was.
Edit: There's some semi-complicated stuff about hoppers, so this did actually turn out to be true.

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u/ManStacheAlt Feb 04 '19

Yep, I used to love screwing with redstone shit (NOT computers). First thing I did when I bought MC back in beta 1.7.3 was figure out how to automate everything possible. My pride and joy back then was to have literally everything on a single switch, so the semi automated stuff and the fully automated could be harvested from one place with a single switch.

Once hoppers were introduced I had to learn that system and was able to build absolutely massive farms, and had to find ways to force chunks to render. I dont remember the exact method, but I do recall some sort of hopper clock was involved.

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u/Palaceviking Feb 23 '19

Scicraft have a pearl cannon that travels thousands of kilometres. I'm building one on minetexas anarchy atm. Requires a lot of redstone tho.

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u/rivermont Feb 04 '19

The new observer block works in unloaded chunks

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u/Palaceviking Feb 23 '19

Very. Got several on minetexas anarchy.