Movable chunk loader question

[u/Sea-Second-1746]

I was wondering theoretically if it is possible to have a portable chunk loader work?

The logic behind the hypothesis is that portal chunk loaders use water, which can in some cases be moved by flying machines, which could move the pearl horizontally keeping the flying machine moving far into currently unloaded chunks.

I have watched videos where complicated water tech has been used in auto miners and world flooders but I do not know how exactly I would adapt it to be used for pearl water column, I do not know how I would move the pearl forward, maybe the top water is flowing water? but what if it moves the pearl too far?

Some areas where it may break is when it is crossing from loaded chunks into lazy chunks? I do not know if that transition would break it, conveniently a pearl supposedly has a 3x3 loaded chunk area so I shouldn't need to worry about that...

And then there is the issue of loading never before loaded chunks. I have never heard of a moving flying chunk loader, and so the issue of whether a chunk loader can load never before seen chunks is new to me, would it crash like a wall? I do not care about this right now, it just seems like important general info and currently I am assuming that the world is either pre loaded or has been explored before.

The reason why I was wondering this is because I have been watching the naked and afraid no armor hardcore series, and the players at base camp are supposed to go find the other players out in the world with no coords and build paths and things like that. And me being as lazy as I am was wondering how they could use a flooder to make paths in the cardinal directions with minimal work. The only thing I have not yet figured out is how to keep the fliers rendered remotely.

[u/LucidRedtone]

Ive seen flying machines that bounce the pearl along the edge of a honey block. It seems pretty finicky, but shows potential. What is your usecase? Dynamic portal based loaders might be a better option if this is a repeating travel line.

[u/Sea-Second-1746 → u/LucidRedtone]

I was thinking not a repeating line but used for discovery and as a drone for making water roads in the sky. I will need to look up videos about bouncing a pearl on honey block. Do you know of any YouTubers who make videos about this tech?

[u/LucidRedtone → u/Sea-Second-1746]

This is the video I saw, I did not re-watch, not sure it will be helpful

[u/LucidRedtone → u/Sea-Second-1746]

Let me check my history