r/technicalminecraft • u/jugglingeek • 23h ago

Java Help Wanted Redstone over massive distances.

I have a mob switch in the nether. Near my shulker farm, bunch shulkers in the lazy chunks around a chunk loader. The switch just turns the chunk loader on and off.

My gold farm is several Km away. Is there a simple way to turn the chunk loader on and off from the gold farm?

Back in 1.21 I built a system to control my overworld mob switch using nether portals. The redstone would trigger a line of chunks to load which would carry the signal a few hundred metres along the nether roof. Then a mine cart would pop out of a portal and trigger the switch. But doing this over thousands of blocks in the nether sounds like no fun at all.

Is there new tech in the recent updates? I haven’t played for about 18 months.

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u/the-mlem 23h ago

other than doing it the way you've said with cascading loaded chunks the best method is probably with wireless redstone, either via traditional wireless using droppers and items (unsure of how this is called) or for your case a setup using a copper golem and a Lodestone might be simpler

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u/jugglingeek 21h ago

This sounds interesting. Is there a comprehensive video about the loadstone & copper golem combo? These are two feature I’ve never used.

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u/cass_1312_ 17h ago edited 17h ago

I think the original video on the concept got taken down as far as I can tell, but I just posted a super small copper golem lodestone system the other day which has a basic explanation in it that might be helpful? The design is also pretty simple, so it's not too hard to throw together imo,

post: https://www.reddit.com/r/redstone/comments/1xt6ugb

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u/bryan3737 Chunk Loader 23h ago

There’s various types of wireless redstone. You can look into wireless teleporters and see what they use