I made a rail system that takes a minecart with a chest from A to B. It loads stuff to the cart from a chest at A and is then supposed to go to B to unload in a chest there, return and repeat. What happens is the cart starts moving and goes out of sight but never returns. So I go and check on it and when I get to the point where I last saw it, it starts moving again. It's like it just pauses when it goes out of sight of the player. Everything works fine if I just fallow the cart all the way from A to B and back but that really defeats the purpose of the rail system.
Length between the A and B is somewhere between 500 and 1000m I think(blocks) I can't be sure because we don't have the F3 function in this version to show the coordinates.
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I don't think minecarts gone that far are supposed to move because chunks having those carts are unloaded.
To me that makes no sense, the chunks shouldn't have to be loaded for the functionality of the cart to continue, to me that is a bug. I don't know how the cart functionality is coded in the game but I don't think it would be that hard to have this work. And in theory it should take very little processing because you don't have to load the whole chunks in graphics you just need to keep track of the rails and redstone objects. That's my opinion at least 🙂
To me that makes no sense, the chunks shouldn't have to be loaded for the functionality of the cart to continue, to me that is a bug. I don't know how the cart functionality is coded in the game but I don't think it would be that hard to have this work. And in theory it should take very little processing because you don't have to load the whole chunks in graphics you just need to keep track of the rails and redstone objects. That's my opinion at least 🙂
Still affects 0.14.1 while I'm not sure whether this is a bug.
I've found a possible workaround for this. When I (accidentally) let my tamed wolf ride on a cart, it somehow kept moving no matter how far it goes. Mobs on a cart may prevent chunks from being unloaded.
I don't think minecarts gone that far are supposed to move because chunks having those carts are unloaded.