CCChunkloader

Chunk loading in this mod is dynamic. A turtle can change its loading radius through code, starting from 0 and reaching 2.5 chunks by default, so a job that needs a small area at one time and a wide area at another does not have to keep a fixed footprint. Fixed chunk loaders keep an area loaded all the time or leave it unloaded entirely; CC Chunk Loader offers a setting in between.

The cost of keeping a chunk loaded is drawn as fuel. The base cost is 0.033 per chunk per tick, the distance cost grows exponentially with a multiplier of 2.0, and random ticking support, used for crop farms, raises the fuel cost. Fuel is tracked as a fractional debt so the charge matches the exact area kept active. When fuel runs out the loader shuts down, which stops abandoned chunk loaders from running forever. Dormant turtles can still be woken by ID, even when their chunks are unloaded.

The mod requires CC: Tweaked and is built for Fabric only. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files cover Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5 and 1.20.6, with 1.3.0 for 1.20.6 as the latest file. The code is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and is open source.