Spawn chunks used to process entities, redstone, etc. From what i've seen in 1.9 release, items don't despawn, chickens don't lay eggs, redstone doesnt work when the player doesnt load directly those chunks.
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Ok , if i understand some major mechanics have been changed and lots of working mechanics have been destroyed, without any communication from mojang ? That's pretty terrible
What kind of systems ? It used to be possible to send items through a portal in the nether with dispensers and redstone for exemple, so you could see items coming from the overworld being in the nether (with no player in the overworld). items in the spawn chunks used to despawn after 5 minutes, with no player on those chunks... What game are you playing ?????
as stated in MC-95848
These are the following tile entities that have an update function called (1.8.8): Chest, MobSpawner, BrewingStand, Beacon, Piston, MobSpawner, Hopper, Furnace, EnderChest, EnchantmentTable, DaylightDetector.
no other title entities work in spawn chunks, and all of these function fine for me in 1.9 so it didn't break the spawn chunks, and he mentioned 1.8.8
I played 1.8.8 untill TODAY ! and i had this beautiful iron farm with golems that move on water streams, and hopper clocks sending items in the nether, all this kind of things working ! 1.9 release : all these things break !
hoppers, and other redstone related objects all work fine for me, and again
1.9 broke a lot of things, but entity activity was most likely removed in "unloaded" spawn chunks for preformance reasons
redstone still works fine for me
Thank you for reporting this issue, but it is a duplicate of MC-95848, which has been resolved as "Invalid". Refer to the comments on that ticket for more information.