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.
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