🧭 Loadstone – Chunk Loader

Turn vanilla Lodestones into reliable, persistent, tiered chunk loaders to keep farms, machines, and redstone active while you’re away.

🎯 What This Mod Does

Tired of your farms, machines, or redstone contraptions stopping when you walk away?

Loadstone turns vanilla Lodestones into simple, reliable chunk loaders — activate a Lodestone with a material and the targeted chunks stay loaded, so everything in range continues running automatically.

✨ Features

• Tiered Chunk Loading: Switch tiers anytime by using different materials.
  • ⚒️ Iron → 1×1 chunk
  • 💎 Diamond → 3×3 chunks
  • 🔥 Netherite → 5×5 chunks
• Persistent Loader State: Loaders are saved to disk and manage chunks properly.
• Smart Material System: Items are consumed on activation and returned on deactivation.
• Visual Feedback: Unique particle effects per tier.
• Real-Time HUD: Compact overlay showing loader status, tier, and coverage.
• No Overlaps: Loaders cannot overlap, preventing multiple loaders from forcing the same chunks.

🎮 How to Use

Activation

1. Place a Lodestone anywhere in your world.
2. Hold the material for the tier:
   • ⚒️ Iron Ingot → 1×1
   • 💎 Diamond → 3×3
   • 🔥 Netherite Ingot → 5×5
3. Right-click the Lodestone to activate.

Deactivation / Change Tier

• Right-click an active Lodestone with empty hand to deactivate — the activation item is returned.
• Right-click with a different valid material to change tier (old material returned).

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✈️ Migration from v1.0 !!! ⚠️ VERY IMPORTANT ⚠️ !!!

🚩 Only required for worlds that previously used Loadstone v1.0.

• Loadstone v1.0 stored loaders only in memory. Because of this, the mod could lose track of active loaders while Minecraft continued keeping the chunks force-loaded.
  This may create ghost-loaded chunks that keep running and may cause lag.

🔧 One-time Fix (for each world that used v1.0)

Run /forceload remove all (cheats/admin required) to clear old forced chunks:

• Singleplayer: Pause → Open to LAN → enable Allow Cheats → run the command (cheats are temporary).
• Server: Use the server console or ask an admin to run the command Reactivate your loaders to register them in v2.0.

🚩 Skipping migration may leave ghost-loaded chunks active in your world.

📌 Notes

• Loaders keep areas active 24/7. Use responsibly to avoid performance issues.
• Using Loadstone v1.0 may result in unexpected behavior or performance issues. Upgrading or using Loadstone v2.0 is recommended for a stable and consistent experience.
• Lodestones only manage chunks they are attached to. Chunks already loaded by external means (commands, other mods, server tools) are not automatically owned. Activating a Lodestone in such a chunk attaches it, allowing the loader to manage it.