Will buildings disappear (and chunks change) if I go too far?
Somebody told me that if I travel too far from my house, it will disappear (possibly with my treasury). Is it true? Will the chunk change if I travel too far? I travelled across tens of thousands of blocks and the house was still there, but I don't know if it will change with being millions of blocks away. If it does, can I preserve the house with a map?
Best Answer
No, Chunks will not get changed, only unload, which might have been what was meant. It basically means that say you had a furnace burning 16 iron ore. If you go far enough away the chunk will unload and the furnace will stop smelting until you load the chunk again, then it will continue. :)
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Why do my buildings disappear in Minecraft?
When the game tries to reread the chunk, it either fails to find it or finds it's corrupted and regenerates it, thus leading to vanishing portions of buildings. (Think laying your Minecraft world in a map with latitude and longitude lines.How do you get rid of unused chunks in Minecraft?
You can delete them by hover at "Selection" -> Delete selected chunks -> OK.Mysterious Building that Disappears When We Go Closer
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Answer 2
They were most likely joking or misinformed. Chunks that you've visited are saved in the world's region files. Even if you walk across the whole world, the things you've built won't disappear. Enjoy exploring!
Answer 3
I'm only aware of one very specific situation in which chunks are altered after being generated. Deep ocean biomes which have not been inhabited for more than three minutes may have ocean monuments spawn in them; the three-minute limit appears to exist specifically to prevent the "my house suddenly vanished" problem. Other than this, the game does not modify existing chunks by itself.
Answer 4
Yes.
If you travel far enough that your coordinates overflow, newly generated chunks will overwrite original ones. You do have to travel insanely far though, even further than where the farlands were.
Answer 5
No not unless someone or something destroys it.
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