I recently was playing a custom modpack on a server with 2 friends and noticed our server was running over 9000 chunks with just the 3 of us online. I did some digging and discovered that forge (without any mods) simulates a square area of 49×49 chunks around players and the world spawn both on the server and in singleplayer.
I used RTB Chunks to see the shape of this and got the same chunk data using f3 without using any mods (just forge). My render and simulating distance is set to 10 on both the server and single player and it still loads 1000s of chunks around the player(s) and the world spawn.
Is there anyway to configure this or is there a mod that reduces this simulated distance? (I added a picture from the RTB Chunks mod, the brown squares are the loaded chunks, the left one being at spawn and the right one being on the player)
by ACrimsonHawk