What I expected to happen was...:
It should increase the render distance.
What actually happened was...:
instad of increasing the render distance it it just regenerate the chunk your in ( Client-Side this does not affect the map it's just physical ).
Steps to Reproduce:
1: Put the render distance higer than 16.
2: See the result.
Environment
Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, Java 8, Graphic card: AMD Radeon HD7790, CPU: Intel Core I5, RAM: 8GB, RAM Used for minecraft: 6GB
This issue is a duplicate of MC-62958. It has been linked to the original bugreport.
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