I was messing with Jump Boost II in a map I'm creating on my iPad Air, but when I was some blocks away the effect started vanishing. I remember Xisumavoid's video on the range of beacons and I discovered that here on the iOS version it isn't, but weirdly enough I found some inconsistencies so I decided to mark with red glass the borders of the beacon range.
It created a strange shape so I opened another world at different coordinates and I recreated the original red border, but I discovered that the effect was vanishing in some areas where it shouldn’t have. I marked the new perimeter in green glass and comparing the borders I couldn't find a logic. I think it is a bug regarding chunk loading the effect, but you are the experts so here you have my issue.
Linked issues
is duplicated by
MCPE-50689
Beacon radius is not working properly.
MCPE-67485
Beacon ranges have extended blind spots
MCPE-80655
Beacons are ranges not perfect squares
MCPE-106379
Beacon not affecting full range
MCPE-123113
Beacon effects avoids redstone or redstone category blocks
MCPE-144122
Level 4 Beacon
MCPE-150298
beacons are broken
MCPE-158553
beacon effects dont work in the corner chunks
MCPE-160871
Beacon area of effect - parity issue.
MCPE-174634
Beacons have a weird gap at the corner
MCPE-183606
Maxed out beacon effects not going to the full range diagonally
MCPE-188296
Worlds with addons have truncated beacon ranges
REALMS-2079
Fully activated conduit does not have full range in Realm.
MCPE-190824
Beacons effect end before they should
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killerbeenl83
The shape is caused by the simulation distance when it is at 4 chunks. On a 6 chunk simulation distance there is also a chance of a small area (chunk) not having the beacon effect. Anything >6 chunks and this should disappear. The chunk containing the beacon in these occasions is not loaded (active) due to the shape of the simulated (working) area.
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Great! So we know the issue, but is it a bug? I think so
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Affects 1.12. I'm wondering if there would even be a solution to this besides turning up the simulation distance (I can't because I mostly play on Realms).
[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay)
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I just want to say that I know why the beacon beam cannot be seen if you go 64 blocks away from the block, but this doesn't relate at all with my issue. Even if the beam is missing, the effect is still there in the y axis, but in the z and the x axes there are some holes around the corners of the range limit. I still suggest chunk loading issues with older devices, but still my iPad isn't the new Nokia 3310, so I still don't know. I hope it is a bug that can be identified on other devices and so I hope for its correction as soon as possible. Thank you for reading.