Chunk Ticker

ChunkTicker

A lightweight Paper plugin that keeps selected chunks permanently loaded and fully ticking, so your farms keep running when nobody is online. Mobs spawn, Redstone fires, villagers work.

Features

• Full entity ticking: mobs spawn, villager AI runs, Redstone executes, crops grow
• Works with zero players online, so iron golem, creeper and hoglin farms run 24/7
• Multi-world support for Overworld, Nether, End and custom worlds
• Radius selection to register one chunk or a whole NxN area in a single command
• Chunk list is stored in config.yml and survives restarts
• Global toggle that pauses all tickets without clearing your list
• Per-subcommand permissions, compatible with LuckPerms

Configuration

# Whether ChunkTicker is globally active
global-enabled: true

# Ticket mode: plugin | forced | both (recommended)
#   plugin  -> addPluginChunkTicket()  (TicketType.PLUGIN, Level 31)
#   forced  -> setChunkForceLoaded()   (TicketType.FORCED, Level 31)
#   both    -> both tickets applied, most reliable for mob farms
ticket-mode: both

# Managed automatically, only edit while the server is stopped
chunks: []

Permissions

Permission	Description	Default
chunksticker.admin	Grants all permissions below	op
chunksticker.set	Use /ct set	op
chunksticker.delete	Use /ct delete	op
chunksticker.list	Use /ct list	op
chunksticker.toggle	Use /ct on and /ct off	op
chunksticker.reload	Use /ct reload	op
chunksticker.status	Use /ct status	op

LuckPerms examples:

/lp group admin permission set chunksticker.admin true
/lp user Steve permission set chunksticker.set true

Commands

Command	Description
/ct set [radius]	Register the chunk you're standing in, plus radius
/ct delete [radius]	Remove the chunk you're standing in, plus radius
/ct list	List all registered chunks (world, X, Z)
/ct on / off	Enable or disable ChunkTicker globally
/ct reload	Reload config and re-apply all tickets
/ct status	Show active state and chunk count per world

Alias: /ct, full command: /chunksticker

Requirements

Server	Paper 1.21 to 1.21.x (Purpur and Pufferfish also work)
Java	21+

Spigot and Folia are not supported.

How it works

Paper exposes two persistent chunk-ticket APIs at entity-ticking level (Level 31): addPluginChunkTicket() and setChunkForceLoaded(). With ticket-mode: both, ChunkTicker applies both to every registered chunk.

Level 31 is the same load level Minecraft uses for chunks inside a player's view distance. Entities tick, mobs spawn through the normal spawning cycle, and Redstone runs exactly as if a player were standing nearby.