Gathering Chunks
by Ryvione
With Gathering Chunks, a world starts as a single chunk and grows only as players find special chests, craft Chunk Spawners and place them beside empty chunks to reveal new terrain.
What it does
Gathering Chunks gives world generation a steady pace of collecting and building. A new world consists of one chunk and nothing else. Scattered special chests hold the items needed to craft Chunk Spawners, and each spawner placed next to an empty chunk activates it and reveals new terrain. Cores, forges, scanners and menders let players manage and automate the growing world.
Gathering Chunks is a maintained fork of Chunk Chunk by immortius, created after the upstream project stopped receiving updates more than a year before the fork appeared. It keeps the original idea alive and brings it to current Minecraft releases. Fabric and NeoForge builds are published for 1.21.1, and Fabric API is required on Fabric. Just Enough Items (JEI) is optional and adds recipe lookup. Servers that run it need every player to install it too.
Key features
Single-chunk start
A new world begins with one chunk, and the rest of the terrain stays hidden until players expand it.
Chests as the source of parts
Special chests scattered through the world contain the items needed to craft Chunk Spawners.
Spawners that reveal terrain
A Chunk Spawner placed next to an empty chunk activates it, so the world grows one chunk at a time.
Cores, forges, scanners and menders
These blocks support the growing world, helping players manage and automate its expansion.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Optional 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want a progression-driven world that grows from a single chunk, and server owners who want a shared expansion pace for their community.
How it compares
FloodWorld is server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and published for Fabric and NeoForge across 1.21 – 1.21.11, so players join without installing it. Daily Expansion is server-side only and covers Fabric and Forge for 1.21 – 1.21.11, under the Apache License 2.0, which is not open source. Chunk Effects requires the server but leaves clients optional, and works only on NeoForge for 1.21.5 – 1.21.11.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gathering Chunks | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-13 |
| FloodWorld | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-07-06 |
| Daily Expansion | Fabric and Forge | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-07-07 |
| Chunk Effects | NeoForge | 1.21.5 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2025-12-10 |
Questions
Which loaders does Gathering Chunks support?
Does Gathering Chunks have to be installed on both sides?
Does Just Enough Items need to be installed?
Is Gathering Chunks related to Chunk Chunk?
In the catalog
Gathering Chunks is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
A maintained fork bringing Chunk by Chunk to the latest Minecraft versions. Start with a single chunk and expand your world chunk by chunk. Gathering Chunks turns world generation into a resource-gathering progression, find chests, craft Chunk Spawners, and unlock new terrain, chunk by chunk as you grow.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/gathering-chunks
- Owner
- Ryvione
- Published
- 2026-01-04
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15