Chunk Ticker
Keeps selected chunks permanently loaded and fully ticking
📖About Chunk Ticker
⏱️ ChunkTicker
Want your farms to keep running when no players are online? This lightweight Paper plugin keeps selected chunks permanently loaded and fully ticking — mobs spawn, Redstone fires, villagers work.
No libraries, no bloat. Mark a chunk and go.
✨ Features
- Full entity ticking — mobs spawn, villager AI runs, Redstone executes, crops grow
- Works without players — iron golem, creeper & hoglin farms run 24/7
- Multi-world support — Overworld, Nether, End and custom worlds
- Radius selection — register one chunk or an entire N×N area in one command
- Persistent — chunk list survives server restarts via
config.yml - Global toggle — pause all tickets without losing your list
- LuckPerms-compatible permissions — per-subcommand control
⚙️ 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 (+ radius) |
/ct delete [radius] |
Remove the chunk you're standing in (+ 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 – 1.21.x (Purpur & 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 used for chunks inside a player's view distance — entities tick, mobs spawn via the natural spawning cycle, and Redstone runs exactly as if a player were standing nearby.